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26 Aug 2011, 9:32 am
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama has postponed the retrial of eight defendants on corruption charges relating to the gambling industry and various State legislators and employees, originally scheduled to commence on October 3, until January 9, 2012, according to Forbes.com. The charges stemmed from an FBI investigation into alleged bribery of legislators relating to an upcoming vote on a gambling bill. Two of the defendants, Alabama State Senator Quinton Ross and… [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 7:28 am
From the Winston-Salem Journal and numerous other sources has come the news that on Wednesday the Federal government announced that it would not seek to retry former U.S. Senator and Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards on the remaining campaign finance charges against him. Edwards’ trial ended in a mistrial on May 31. The jury had acquitted Edwards on one of the counts of allegedly accepting unlawful campaign contributions, and deadlocked on the remaining five charges.
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3 May 2012, 9:24 am
The Washington Post on May 3, 2012 released the following: "By Ann E. Marimow and Del Quentin Wilber The government lawyers prosecuting former baseball star Roger Clemens should not have been surprised by Andy Pettitte's admission Wednesday that he may have misheard his former teammate and friend tell him that he'd used performance-enhancing drugs, according to former federal prosecutors. In preparation for taking the witness stand, former prosecutors said the government team likely would have… [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 4:41 am
“The first person to face a murder retrial following the discovery of new forensic evidence was convicted today.”
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The Independent, 13th December 2010
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14 Mar 2013, 2:32 am
“An SAS sniper has had his convictions for illegally possessing a pistol and ammunition quashed by the court of appeal.”
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The Guardian, 13th March 2013
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31 Jan 2013, 10:19 am
“A man has been convicted of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan, whose shooting by police triggered the 2011 riots across England.”
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The Guardian, 31st January 2013
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3 Apr 2013, 1:58 am
“Lawyers for an SAS sniper are to challenge whether it is in the public interest to retry him for illegally possessing a pistol and ammunition.”
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BBC News, 2nd April 2013
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19 Apr 2012, 2:22 am
“Jurors failed to reach a verdict on Wednesday on whether a student who suffered a brain injury at a university fees demonstration was guilty of violent disorder.”
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The Guardian, 18th April 2012
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19 Jul 2011, 1:39 am
“An acting prison governor who had a sexual relationship with a woman inmate has been jailed for five years.”
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BBC News, 18th July 2011
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17 Jul 2012, 1:50 am
“A father has been jailed for two years for killing his daughter, who died nearly eight years after being injured as a baby.”
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BBC News, 16th July 2012
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21 Feb 2013, 1:41 am
” … and nine other questions posed by the jury before the judge decided to order a retrial.”
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The Independent, 21st February 2013
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15 Nov 2011, 2:37 am
“A young care home worker walked free today after a jury failed to reach a verdict on whether she killed an elderly resident by setting fire to her room.”
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The Independent, 14th November 2011
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21 Mar 2013, 2:06 am
“Two men connected to the republican movement in Northern Ireland have been ruled responsible for the Omagh bombing after a landmark civil action.”
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The Independent, 20th March 2013
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19 Mar 2012, 4:18 am
Regina v Feeley [2012] WLR (D) 83
“Where a defendant was being retried, following a successful appeal against conviction, there was no reason in principle why additional counts should not be added to the indictment.”
WLR Daily, 15th March 2012
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5 Feb 2013, 1:08 am
“The conviction of Robert and Lee Firkins for one of Cornwall’s most notorious
murders has been cast into doubt, the BBC has learned.”
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BBC News, 5th February 2013
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26 Feb 2013, 2:05 am
“The retrial of Vicky Pryce, the former wife of the disgraced cabinet minister Chris Huhne, has begun, with the new jury being warned to ignore anything they already knew about the case.”
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The Guardian, 25th February 2013
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17 Jan 2012, 8:36 am
“A 45-year-old man jailed for murdering his wife after she left him and found a new man has had his conviction quashed.”
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BBC News, 17th January 2012
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19 May 2011, 3:33 am
“In allowing the media to report that Gary Dobson and David Norris will stand trial at the Old Bailey in November for the murder in 1993 of Stephen Lawrence, the court of appeal has recognised the public interest in open justice.”
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The Guardian, 18th May 2011
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20 Oct 2011, 2:05 am
“One of the most significant police anti-corruption cases in modern times collapsed on Wednesday, after two former detectives, who had both served lengthy jail sentences, were cleared at a retrial.”
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The Guardian, 19th October 2011
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25 Jan 2012, 2:04 am
Regina v C(S) [2012] EWCA Crim 6; [2012] WLR (D) 5
“At a retrial of a conspirator about whom the jury at the first trial had been unable to reach a verdict, the Crown would be entitled to tell the jury that it was the prosecution’s case that those who had been acquitted at the first trial were probably involved in the conspiracy and that the jury would be entitled to take into account the acquitted conspirators’ probable role in the importation when deciding whether they were sure that the… [read post]