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Trial Set For Aging Mobster After Failed Craigslist Scam

A trial has been set for an aging, down on his luck mobster after being arrested for attempting to rob a man trying to sell a diamond engagement ring.

2011/01/06

Aasiya Zubair and Muzzammil Hassan (credit: HO/AFP/Getty Images)

Lawyers To Meet In Advance Of NY Beheading Trial

Defense and prosecution lawyers were expected to discuss jury selection and other housekeeping matters during a conference Tuesday in Erie County Court in Buffalo.

2011/01/04

Rapper Ja Rule Pleads Guilty In NY Weapon Case

Police said they found a loaded semiautomatic gun in a rear door of the $250,000-plus car after it was stopped for speeding.

2010/12/13

Aasiya Zubair and Muzzammil Hassan (credit: HO/AFP/Getty Images)

NY Man Accused Of Beheading Wife: Jailers Beat Me

Aasiya Hassan was killed in 2009 inside the TV station she and her husband established to promote cultural understanding. She had recently filed for divorce.

2010/11/18

An undated photo of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani - AP Photo

Gitmo Detainee Acquitted Of All But 1 Charge In NY

The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial has been acquitted in New York City of all but one charge accusing him of a deadly 1998 plot to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa.

2010/11/17

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (AP Photo/File)

9/11 Trial Not Likely To Happen Anytime Soon

After months of opposition from New York officials, the trial for the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks may not happen any soon.

2010/11/14

Courtroom sketch of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (credit: CBS 2)

Jury Needs More Deliberations In Gitmo Detainee’s Trial

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan allege that Ahmed Ghailani was part of an al-Qaida cell that bombed two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998.

2010/11/11

Courtroom sketch of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (credit: CBS 2)

Jury Deliberates At Gitmo Detainee’s NY Trial

A New York City jury has begun deliberations in the first civilian trial for a Guantanamo detainee.

2010/11/10

Courtroom sketch of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (credit: CBS 2)

Defense: Gitmo Detainee A ‘Dupe’ In Bomb Plot

A lawyer for the first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial says his client didn’t know about a plot to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa.

2010/11/09

Courtroom sketch of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (credit: CBS 2)

Closings Start In Gitmo Detainee NY Trial

The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial is a “mass murderer” who played a key role in the terrorist bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, a prosecutor said Monday in closing arguments.

2010/11/08

Steven Hayes - File / Photo: Connecticut State Police via AP

Doc: Cheshire Home Invasion Defendant Expressed Guilt

Lawyers for a man convicted of a deadly home invasion have called a parole officer to testify as they try to persuade a jury to spare their client the death penalty.

2010/10/27

A Gavel - File / Photo: AP

Jury Deliberations To Continue In NJ Incest Case

Jurors have not reached a verdict in the first day of deliberations in the trial of a New Jersey father accused of raping five of his daughters.

2010/10/19

A Gavel - File / Photo: AP

Closing Arguments Under Way In NJ Dad’s Incest Trial

Closing statements are under way Monday in the first of five trials for a New Jersey father accused of raping five of his daughters.

2010/10/18

A Gavel - File / Photo: AP

NJ Father Under Cross-Examination In Incest Case

The man testified earlier that he loved his children and never harmed them. He said testimony from his former wife that he beat her and the children, and a daughter who said he raped her until she bore him a child, were “all lies.”

2010/10/14

An undated photo of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani - AP Photo

Judge Explains Witness Ban In Gitmo Detainee’s Trial

Judge Lewis Kaplan said he banned a man after prosecutors failed to show Ghailani’s CIA interrogation played no role in getting the witness to cooperate.

2010/10/14

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