ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Adnan Syed’s lawyer asked Maryland’s highest court on Wednesday to overturn a lower court’s ruling that reinstated his murder conviction from more than two decades ago — after he was freed last year in a legal ...
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Read More »A Maryland appellate court on Tuesday denied a request by Adnan Syed’s lawyer to reconsider its recent decision to reinstate his murder conviction. His lawyer said she will appeal to the Maryland Supreme Court. The Appellate Court of Maryland reinstated ...
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Read More »THREE RIVERS, Mich. (AP) — A South Carolina man has been charged in a Michigan woman’s 1988 slaying after investigators used forensic genetic genealogy to narrow the pool of suspects to a single family, authorities said Monday. Robert Odell Waters, ...
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Read More »COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Justices on South Carolina’s highest court on Wednesday erased an order that cut 16 years off a convicted murderer’s sentence, a deal the inmate won by reporting another prisoner’s escape that had gone undetected for two ...
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Read More »LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former elected official representing himself against a murder charge for the fatal stabbing of a Las Vegas investigative journalist lost bids on Wednesday to have a defense attorney appointed to advise him before trial and ...
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Read More »Investigators have blood, video and other evidence linking a Tampa-area plastic surgeon to the disappearance and presumed death of a lawyer who was representing former colleagues the doctor is suing, prosecutors said in court documents filed Monday. The lawyer’s body ...
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Read More »A Tampa-area plastic surgeon has been charged with murder, accused of killing a lawyer missing since last week from a firm that represents former co-workers the doctor has been suing in a business dispute. Largo police arrested Dr. Tomasz Kosowski ...
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Read More »BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman charged with conspiracy and murder in connection with the deaths of her two children and her new husband’s late wife will no longer face the death penalty, a judge ruled Tuesday. Lori Vallow Daybell ...
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Read More »By Paul Mark Sandler BridgeTower Media Newswires The year is 4300. Defendants on appeal are convicted of murder, sentenced to hang. They seek reversal from the Supreme Court of Newgarth. (“The Case of the Speluncean Explorers,” Lon Fuller, Vol. 62, ...
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Read More »WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury in North Carolina has indicted a man who admitted to an innocence panel that he broke into a woman’s house 36 years ago and killed her, adding that the man sent to prison ...
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South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
