http://www.mail.com/subjects/1656-legal-proceedings.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/1656-legal-proceedings.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092554-idaho-man-charged-uzbekistan-terrorism-plot.html BOISE, Idaho (AP) — He was a Russian-speaking truck driver who came to Idaho nearly four years ago to join hundreds of other Uzbekistan refugees for whom the state has become a sanctuary from violence in their home country. But federal officials say in an indictment that Fazliddin Kurbanov also was teaching people to build bombs that would target public t... Fri, 17 May 2013 22:14:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092554-idaho-man-charged-uzbekistan-terrorism-plot.html 2013-05-17T22:14:33Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2092672-problems-surface-arizs-2007-immigration-law.html PHOENIX (AP) — The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. The law marked a bold step by a state into an area that had long been the domain of the federal governmen... Fri, 17 May 2013 08:33:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2092672-problems-surface-arizs-2007-immigration-law.html 2013-05-17T08:33:30Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092656-arias-victims-family-dramatic-statement.html PHOENIX (AP) — Steven Alexander stood before the jury, looked up at a family picture and grimaced and cried as he ticked off the list of problems that have befallen him in the five years since his brother was murdered: ulcers, depression, a separation from his wife, nightmares. The dreams consist of someone coming at him with a knife then going after his ... Fri, 17 May 2013 08:18:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092656-arias-victims-family-dramatic-statement.html 2013-05-17T08:18:53Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2092606-ojs-ex-lawyer-contradicts-testimony-guns.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his buddies had guns when they went to a hotel room together to reclaim some sports memorabilia. Miami-based attorney Yale Galanter qu... Sat, 18 May 2013 01:28:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2092606-ojs-ex-lawyer-contradicts-testimony-guns.html 2013-05-18T01:28:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092498-ohioan-to-appeal-conviction-dying-blinks-case.html CINCINNATI (AP) — The man convicted in a murder trial that hinged on a paralyzed victim blinking his eyes to identify his shooter plans to appeal, a defense attorney said after the verdict. A jury on Thursday found Ricardo Woods guilty of murder and felonious assault for the death of David Chandler, who was shot Oct. 28, 2010, while sitting in a car in Ci... Fri, 17 May 2013 06:46:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092498-ohioan-to-appeal-conviction-dying-blinks-case.html 2013-05-17T06:46:33Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2092384-soldier-life-without-parole-iraq-killings.html JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq. A military judge, Army Col. David Conn, found Sgt. John Russell guilty of premeditated murder on Monday and imposed the sentence Thursday morning. The only o... Fri, 17 May 2013 04:07:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2092384-soldier-life-without-parole-iraq-killings.html 2013-05-17T04:07:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2089618-emotional-day-testimony-arias-trial.html PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors deciding whether convicted murderer Jodi Arias will get the death penalty heard the victim's brother describe Thursday how he was hospitalized for ulcers, lost sleep and separated from his wife after his brother was killed. Travis Alexander's younger brother Steven paused to choke back tears and regain his composure as he recounted t... Fri, 17 May 2013 02:42:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2089618-emotional-day-testimony-arias-trial.html 2013-05-17T02:42:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092046-2nd-degree-murder-conviction-honolulu-shootings.html HONOLULU (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a Wahiawa man of second-degree murder and other charges in a 2011 shooting rampage through Honolulu that killed a mother of 10 and wounded two other people. Jurors deliberated for about 13 hours over three days before delivering a verdict in the case of Toby Stangel, 30. They also found him guilty of two of sev... Fri, 17 May 2013 02:27:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092046-2nd-degree-murder-conviction-honolulu-shootings.html 2013-05-17T02:27:18Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2090784-2-minnesota-women-sentenced-somali-terror-case.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minnesota women convicted of conspiring to send money to al-Shabab in Somalia were given prison sentences in federal court Thursday, ending a week of punishments tied to long-running investigations into recruiting and financing for the terrorist group. Amina Farah Ali, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on 13 terrorism-related ... Fri, 17 May 2013 02:18:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2090784-2-minnesota-women-sentenced-somali-terror-case.html 2013-05-17T02:18:41Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2089316-brothers-arrested-mothers-day-parade-shooting.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a Mother's Day parade in a New Orleans neighborhood. The arrests by city police and U.S. marshals came less than four days after gunfire scatt... Fri, 17 May 2013 01:32:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2089316-brothers-arrested-mothers-day-parade-shooting.html 2013-05-17T01:32:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2091848-authorities-arrest-man-idaho-terrorism-case.html BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal authorities in Idaho said Thursday they have arrested an Uzbekistan national accused of conspiring with a designated terrorist organization in his home country and helping scheme to use a weapon of mass destruction. The U.S. attorney's office said Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested at an apartment complex in south Boise on Th... Fri, 17 May 2013 00:49:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2091848-authorities-arrest-man-idaho-terrorism-case.html 2013-05-17T00:49:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2091582-dying-mans-eye-blinks-lead-to-ohio-murder-verdict.html CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man was found guilty Thursday of fatally shooting a man who authorities say identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked up to a ventilator. A jury convicted Ricardo Woods, 35, of murder and felonious assault for the death of David Chandler who was shot Oct. 28, 2010, as he sat in a car in Cincinnati. ... Fri, 17 May 2013 00:07:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2091582-dying-mans-eye-blinks-lead-to-ohio-murder-verdict.html 2013-05-17T00:07:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2092006-cuban-prisoner-settles-lawsuit-md-company.html WASHINGTON (AP) — An American imprisoned in Cuba settled a lawsuit Thursday against the company he was working for when arrested, a lawsuit that claimed he wasn't properly warned about or prepared for the risks of working in the communist nation. Alan Gross and his wife filed the lawsuit in November against the U.S. government and Bethesda, Md.,-based Dev... Thu, 16 May 2013 23:17:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2092006-cuban-prisoner-settles-lawsuit-md-company.html 2013-05-16T23:17:44Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2091146-ticketmaster-settles-rewards-lawsuit-23m.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ticketmaster has agreed to settle claims for up to $23 million over a lawsuit affecting more than a million people who, after buying a ticket online, were enrolled in a rewards program that cost $9 a month but never gave them any benefits. U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer in Los Angeles approved the settlement last week. Plaintiffs' att... Thu, 16 May 2013 22:18:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2091146-ticketmaster-settles-rewards-lawsuit-23m.html 2013-05-16T22:18:51Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2090786-oj-court-day-4-bid-vegas-trial.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — The lead defense attorney in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery trial had a conflict of interest because he could have been a witness in the case, a lawyer who worked on Simpson's unsuccessful appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court testified Thursday. Witness Malcolm LaVergne said that defense attorney Yale Galanter's conflict was that he had given... Thu, 16 May 2013 21:48:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2090786-oj-court-day-4-bid-vegas-trial.html 2013-05-16T21:48:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091258-second-court-invalidates-obama-recess-appointment.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board. The ruling by the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia came on the same day that a Senate panel considered a slate of five nominees for full terms on t... Thu, 16 May 2013 21:28:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091258-second-court-invalidates-obama-recess-appointment.html 2013-05-16T21:28:04Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2090952-documents-ricin-letters-suspect-evaded-police.html JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The man suspected of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials appears to have attempted to evade law enforcement just days before his arrest, according to FBI documents made public Thursday. James Everett Dutschke, 41, was arrested April 27 at his home in Tupelo, Miss., and charged with making ricin,... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:38:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2090952-documents-ricin-letters-suspect-evaded-police.html 2013-05-16T20:38:17Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/2091334-nba-union-head-files-suit-fisher.html Ousted NBA players' association executive director Billy Hunter alleges in a lawsuit that president Derek Fisher had a secret deal with owners during the 2011 lockout that benefited himself, his publicist and certain players. Hunter contends that Fisher undermined Hunter's efforts to make an agreement and interfered with his position by secretly negotiati... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:05:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/2091334-nba-union-head-files-suit-fisher.html 2013-05-16T20:05:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2087796-mont-man-custody-release-1979-slaying.html BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The three-decade fight for freedom by a Montana man convicted of the 1979 slaying of a teenage classmate entered what could be its final stage this week, when the Montana Supreme Court ordered him back to prison and took away his brief taste of normal life. But from the time he confessed to out-of-state police four years after the n... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:00:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2087796-mont-man-custody-release-1979-slaying.html 2013-05-16T20:00:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2091090-prison-treatment-program-idaho-monkey-killer.html BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo last fall and brutally beating to death one of two Patas monkeys has been ordered to spend up to a year in a treatment program at a state prison. Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, was sentenced Thursday for his role in the Nov. 17 crime that caused shock and outrage in Idaho's capitol c... Thu, 16 May 2013 19:48:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2091090-prison-treatment-program-idaho-monkey-killer.html 2013-05-16T19:48:10Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2089918-watchdog-israel-trying-to-legalize-settlements.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli watchdog group on Thursday accused the government of taking steps to legalize four unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank, days before the U.S. secretary of state is set to arrive on a new peace mission. The government announced its move this week in a filing to the Supreme Court, threatening to cast a shadow over Se... Thu, 16 May 2013 19:27:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2089918-watchdog-israel-trying-to-legalize-settlements.html 2013-05-16T19:27:58Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091218-afghans-tell-us-soldiers-killing-rampage.html KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told her side of what happened to her family sometime before dawn on March 11, 2012. According to Masooma, an American soldier wearing a helmet equipped with... Thu, 16 May 2013 18:42:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091218-afghans-tell-us-soldiers-killing-rampage.html 2013-05-16T18:42:13Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2090636-uk-court-jails-4-lulzsec-hackers-cyberattacks.html LONDON (AP) — Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were sentenced to up to 32 months in prison on Thursday. The hackers, who were affiliated with the group Lulz Security, had all pleaded guilty to hacking charges. Prosecutors say they also targeted the we... Thu, 16 May 2013 16:33:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2090636-uk-court-jails-4-lulzsec-hackers-cyberattacks.html 2013-05-16T16:33:38Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2089696-uk-campaign-group-loses-challenge-tax-deal.html LONDON (AP) — A U.K. pressure group Thursday lost its legal challenge to what it called a "sweetheart" tax deal between U.K. authorities and Goldman Sachs. UK Uncut Legal Action, which campaigns against tax avoidance, had sought a High Court declaration that it was unlawful for the U.S.-based investment bank to avoid a multimillion pound interest bill on ... Thu, 16 May 2013 09:57:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2089696-uk-campaign-group-loses-challenge-tax-deal.html 2013-05-16T09:57:13Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2089430-gosnell-case-fuels-bitter-us-abortion-debate.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — One of the last people seated in the witness box at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's murder trial was a character witness for a co-defendant, and had nothing to do with Gosnell's abortion clinic. But the woman happened to be six months pregnant, and nearly waddled to the stand. If the jury had any doubts about the second- or third-trimester aborti... Thu, 16 May 2013 06:32:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2089430-gosnell-case-fuels-bitter-us-abortion-debate.html 2013-05-16T06:32:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2087794-inmate-who-killed-wash-guard-sentenced-to-death.html EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state judge has sentenced an inmate to death for killing a state corrections officer in a prison chapel two years ago. Byron Scherf is a convicted rapist who already was serving life in prison when he attacked officer Jayme Biendl and strangled her with an amplifier cord at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe in J... Thu, 16 May 2013 04:40:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2087794-inmate-who-killed-wash-guard-sentenced-to-death.html 2013-05-16T04:40:51Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2089098-ex-emt-texas-pleads-guilty-to-charges.html WACO, Texas (AP) — A first responder who helped evacuate people ahead of a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge he possessed bomb-making materials. Bryce Reed was arrested last week and indicted Tuesday on a charge of possessing an unregistered firearm. Authorities have not announced any link between Reed a... Thu, 16 May 2013 01:03:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2089098-ex-emt-texas-pleads-guilty-to-charges.html 2013-05-16T01:03:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086574-jurors-find-jodi-arias-eligible-death-penalty.html PHOENIX (AP) — The same jury that convicted Jodi Arias of first-degree murder last week took less than three hours Wednesday to determine that the former waitress is eligible for the death penalty in the killing of her one-time lover. The swift verdict sets the stage for the final phase of the trial to determine whether the 32-year-old Arias should be sen... Thu, 16 May 2013 00:35:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086574-jurors-find-jodi-arias-eligible-death-penalty.html 2013-05-16T00:35:06Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2087888-donald-trump-completes-testimony-chicago-trial.html CHICAGO (AP) — A scowling Donald Trump raised his voice on the witness stand Wednesday while an attorney grilled him and then rolled his eyes at the "Apprentice" star's answers, prompting a federal judge to scold both men in open court and order them to behave. The admonition came during Trump's second and final day on the stand at a civil trial where he ... Wed, 15 May 2013 23:00:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2087888-donald-trump-completes-testimony-chicago-trial.html 2013-05-15T23:00:18Z