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Bell faces 'fiscal crisis' after corruption scandal, audit finds
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.Three years after a massive corruption scandal, Bell's finances have worsen considerably and the city doesn't have the money to refund millions of dollars in taxes illegally levied on residents, according to a state audit released Wednesday. Bell...Tags: Finance, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Bell City Council, City of Bell Public Corruption Scandal
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Prosecutors opt to retry five ex-Bell City Council members
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Former Bell City Councilman Luis Artiga is the only former official who will not be retried for corruption. Artiga, a pastor in Bell, was the only council member fully acquitted by a jury in March on charges of misappropriating public funds and...Tags: Lawyers, Crimes, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Bell City Council
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L.A. County D.A. plans to retry former Bell City Council members
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office plans to retry the case against Bell council members accused of misappropriating public funds by overpaying themselves for sitting on city boards and authorities that rarely met, according to defense...
Tags: Lawyers, Litigation, Crimes, Justice and Rights, Justice System
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Jury awards $38.5 million in negligence case against doctors
A Broward jury has awarded more than $28.5 million to a Lauderdale Lakes man who was left in a vegetative state after undergoing a "manipulation under anesthesia" in 2008, and another $10 million to the man's two daughters. Dale Whyte, 37, never woke...
Tags: Lawyers, Pompano Beach, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Guatemala full of questions after genocide conviction annulled
MEXICO CITY — The Guatemalan high court's decision to annul the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Tuesday revived questions about his responsibility for the slaughter of some 1,700 ethnic Maya people. The...Tags: Genocide, Newspaper and Magazine, Crimes, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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District attorney will retry Bell officials accused of corruption
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office plans to retry the case against Bell council members accused of misappropriating public funds by overpaying themselves for sitting on city boards and authorities that rarely met, according to defense...
Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, University of California, Los Angeles, Judges
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State's Attorney's office regrets characterization of defendants as 'mutts'
Change of SubjectOn his Lisagor Award-winning Huffington Post blog, David Protess wrote yesterday about what he saw yesterday in a Cook County Courtroom. First, his summary of the case: Armando Serrano and Jose Montanez were convicted of a 1993 murder based primarily........ -
Woman pleads guilty to perjury in '08 Hampton sexual assault case
HAMPTON — A Hampton woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to lying from the witness stand at a Hampton trial five years ago, which led to a man spending nearly four years of his life wrongfully imprisoned. Elizabeth Paige Coast, 23, had been charged with...
Tags: Lawyers, Crimes, Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), Justice System, Court Preliminary
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Death in Zimbabwe results in unusual charge against US government worker
Associated PressALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The facts laid out by prosecutors are plain: In 2008, a U.S. government employee on assignment in Zimbabwe drove through the capital of Harare in his government-issued Toyota Land Cruiser and struck and killed a 34-year-old...Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of State
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Myanmar court sentences Muslims for killing Buddhist monk during sectarian unrest
Associated PressMEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) — A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday — one of them to a life term — in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was overwhelmingly directed against minority Muslims...Tags: Burma, Crimes, Thein Sein, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights Watch
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Bail Denied for James Wells in Kodiak Coast Guard Murders
Channel 2 NewsA federal judge denied bail for the man accused of killing two men at a Kodiak Island Coast Guard facility. Though James Wells’ defense team claimed the 61-year-old posed no risk to the community, it was unable to secure bail for the murder...Tags: Prostitution, Murder, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Judge's Decision Called a Win for Yupik Fishermen
Channel 2 NewsAn important ruling was made Monday in the trial of several Yupik fishermen charged with defying a fishing closure last summer. Defendants had argued they had the right to fish last summer based on religious grounds. While the judge in the case agreed...Tags: Justice System, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice, Fishing
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