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Attorney questions midshipman’s memory of party
WASHINGTON — A defense attorney on Friday spent hours questioning a midshipman’s spotty recollections of a toga party where she says she was sexually assaulted by three Naval Academy football […]
Judge: Airline-merger trial to start in November
WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Friday that the government’s lawsuit to block the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways will start Nov. 25, a timetable favored by […]
George Zimmerman’s wife pleads guilty to perjury
SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman’s wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying during a bail hearing after her husband’s arrest, and she was sentenced to a […]
Accuser testifies in Naval Academy sex assault
WASHINGTON — A midshipman testified Wednesday that she didn’t remember being sexually assaulted by three former Navy football players after a night of heavy drinking, but she said one of […]
Hearing begins for Naval Academy football players
WASHINGTON — A hearing has begun to determine whether three former U.S. Naval Academy football players will face a court-martial on charges that they sexually assaulted a female midshipman. Midshipmen […]
Public defender’s office ‘seriously considering’ Supreme Court appeal in DNA cases
Two recent Maryland high court decisions upholding rape convictions based on DNA analysis could set the stage for Supreme Court appeals based on the failure of analysts to testify at trial.
Jury handed Fort Hood shooting rampage case
FORT HOOD, Texas — The Army psychiatrist on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood passed on his final chance to address jurors before they started deliberating Thursday, […]
Bradley Manning says he wants to live as a woman
FORT MEADE — Three years after Bradley Manning rocked the Pentagon by leaking a mountain of secrets, the soldier created a whole new set of potential complications for the military […]
Law blog roundup
Defense attorney for Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie and Carlos the Jackal dies in Paris.
Judge bars most motive evidence in Fort Hood trial
FORT HOOD, Texas — The judge overseeing the Fort Hood shooting trial has blocked prosecutors from using several witnesses and most evidence they’d sought to explain the motive behind the […]
A decade of Pentagon struggles bared at Manning trial
WASHINGTON — Some of the Pentagon’s most painful themes of the past decade have played out at the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. At its core, the trial is […]
