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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/us/crimes-trials us Crimes and Trials News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:52 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/us/crimes-trials http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_toddler_trash_bin ap/20100210/us_toddler_trash_bin AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:52 GMT AP - A jury has convicted a 23-year-old California man of killing his girlfriend's 1-year-old son. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_jail_chaplain_arrested ap/20100210/us_jail_chaplain_arrested AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:22:40 GMT AP - A grand jury declined Tuesday to indict a Muslim chaplain accused of trying to smuggle razor blades and scissors into a jail, spurring his release without bail while the case continues. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_seventies_slayings_trial ap/20100210/us_seventies_slayings_trial AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:10:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_seventies_slayings_trial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.11a8cc5c83e342bfb50016205791f8e4.seventies_slayings_trial_la107.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=RMT51A3Imo79H47rOdRDYw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="FILE - This Jan. 11, 2010 file photo shows Rodney Alcala, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sits in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. Alcala, a California man with a genius IQ who is charged with the serial killings of five females donned an earring Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 and took the witness stand in his own defense. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A man acting as his own lawyer in a case charging him with five 1970s serial killings played a video clip Tuesday of himself as the winning contestant on "The Dating Game" in an attempt to prove his innocence in one murder.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_seventies_slayings_trial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.11a8cc5c83e342bfb50016205791f8e4.seventies_slayings_trial_la107.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=RMT51A3Imo79H47rOdRDYw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - This Jan. 11, 2010 file photo shows Rodney Alcala, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sits in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. Alcala, a California man with a genius IQ who is charged with the serial killings of five females donned an earring Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 and took the witness stand in his own defense. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_pa_corruption_scandal ap/20100210/us_pa_corruption_scandal AP health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:10:29 GMT AP - The intimate details of the sex life of a former state legislative aide became fodder for the jury in a public corruption trial Tuesday as he explained that his affair with an aide ended prematurely because he struggled to perform sexually. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_en_ot/us_reality_contestant_convicted ap/20100210/us_reality_contestant_convicted AP entertainment Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:42:33 GMT AP - A San Francisco jury has found a former reality TV show contestant guilty of killing a man in 2007. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/us_nm/us_usa_security_zazi nm/20100209/us_usa_security_zazi Reuters us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:41:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/us_nm/us_usa_security_zazi"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100202/i/ra1014109007.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=YwNO5ecDcP7gxtiZOFjtdQ--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="Mohammed Zazi, father of the accused New York bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi, walks to the Alfred A. Arraj Federal Courthouse for a hearing in Denver, Colorado in this October 9, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Mark Leffingwell/Files" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The father of an Afghan-born airport shuttle driver accused of plotting an al Qaeda-inspired bomb attack on New York City pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of conspiring to alter, destroy and conceal evidence.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/us_nm/us_usa_security_zazi"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100202/i/ra1014109007.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=YwNO5ecDcP7gxtiZOFjtdQ--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="photo" title="Mohammed Zazi, father of the accused New York bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi, walks to the Alfred A. Arraj Federal Courthouse for a hearing in Denver, Colorado in this October 9, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Mark Leffingwell/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_drew_peterson ap/20100209/us_drew_peterson AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:56:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_drew_peterson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.7d6b1a87bd3f499b90a00571e8682c66.police_officers_wife_ny116.jpg?x=120&y=130&q=85&sig=S3Wp1i9Pi_7b27Nk7nT9fA--" align="left" height="130" width="120" alt="FILE - In this Friday, May 8, 2009 picture, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio, who was found in an empty bathtub at home. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0" /></a>AP - The second wife of a former suburban Chicago police sergeant testified at a pretrial hearing Tuesday that he had threatened to kill her and said he could make it look like an accident</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_drew_peterson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.7d6b1a87bd3f499b90a00571e8682c66.police_officers_wife_ny116.jpg?x=120&y=130&q=85&sig=S3Wp1i9Pi_7b27Nk7nT9fA--" align="left" height="130" width="120" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Friday, May 8, 2009 picture, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio, who was found in an empty bathtub at home. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_nyc_terror ap/20100209/us_nyc_terror AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:27:00 GMT AP - The father of an airport driver accused of trying to cook up homemade bombs in a Colorado hotel for an attack on New York City pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he tried to get rid of chemicals and other evidence, prosecutors said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_treatment_center_death ap/20100209/us_treatment_center_death AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:02:54 GMT AP - A jury on Tuesday acquitted three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffocated and choked on her own vomit after being restrained facedown on the floor. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_off_duty_officer_shooting ap/20100209/us_off_duty_officer_shooting AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:52:53 GMT AP - A former Philadelphia police officer has turned himself in to face murder charges in the shooting death of a neighbor during an off-duty altercation last year. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_edwards_sex_tape ap/20100209/us_edwards_sex_tape AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:06:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_edwards_sex_tape"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.8f0067d799cc4cd5a8b059c997b4b09d.edwards_book_ny132.jpg?x=124&y=130&q=85&sig=fI9eiDfrzV.HLTKMI99zog--" align="left" height="130" width="124" alt="FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 29, 2006 picture, Rielle Hunter, background left, holds a video camera as former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards campaigns in Portsmouth, N.H. Hunter, the ex-mistress of the two-time presidential candidate John Edwards wants a 'very private and personal' videotape back from a campaign aide who wrote a book about the politician, according to court documents obtained Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)" border="0" /></a>AP - A North Carolina court has temporarily stopped the security rules that a judge issued for the retrieval of the John Edwards sex tape.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_edwards_sex_tape"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.8f0067d799cc4cd5a8b059c997b4b09d.edwards_book_ny132.jpg?x=124&y=130&q=85&sig=fI9eiDfrzV.HLTKMI99zog--" align="left" height="130" width="124" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 29, 2006 picture, Rielle Hunter, background left, holds a video camera as former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards campaigns in Portsmouth, N.H. Hunter, the ex-mistress of the two-time presidential candidate John Edwards wants a 'very private and personal' videotape back from a campaign aide who wrote a book about the politician, according to court documents obtained Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_army_bribery ap/20100209/us_army_bribery AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:48:48 GMT AP - A retired Army master sergeant who pleaded guilty to bribery and money-laundering charges stemming from his time in Iraq has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_newark_airport_evacuation_suspect ap/20100209/us_newark_airport_evacuation_suspect AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:42:45 GMT AP - A lawyer for a Rutgers University graduate student charged with a January security breach at Newark Liberty Airport that led to worldwide flight delays entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday and defended his client as "simply a lovesick man who made a mistake." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_maryland_girl_slain ap/20100209/us_maryland_girl_slain AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:45:29 GMT AP - A registered sex offender has been indicted on murder charges in the death of an 11-year-old Maryland girl whose body was found on Christmas day. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_cyanide_death ap/20100209/us_cyanide_death AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:33:43 GMT AP - A family member who testified earlier that an Ohio doctor denied poisoning his wife now says the defendant admitted to the killing. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/en_afp/entertainmentusmusicjackson afp/20100209/entertainmentusmusicjackson AFP entertainment Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:34:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/en_afp/entertainmentusmusicjackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265714876972-11-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=f4hrelOwm1bTEKMZBRIvhg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray, seen here in the court, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter at a court in Los Angeles in connection with the pop superstar's sudden death last year from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.(AFP/Mark Boster)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Michael Jackson's doctor has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter at a court in Los Angeles in connection with the pop superstar's sudden death last year from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/en_afp/entertainmentusmusicjackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265714876972-11-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=f4hrelOwm1bTEKMZBRIvhg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray, seen here in the court, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter at a court in Los Angeles in connection with the pop superstar's sudden death last year from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.(AFP/Mark Boster)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_en_mu/us_michael_jackson_doctor ap/20100209/us_michael_jackson_doctor AP entertainment Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:20:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_en_mu/us_michael_jackson_doctor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.880f9dc74f304657bad62c0068fd28fa.michael_jackson_doctor_cajr110.jpg?x=122&y=130&q=85&sig=KbVstSPbSggQ3I7MkTEr6g--" align="left" height="130" width="122" alt="Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, is escorted by Los Angeles County Sheriffs deputies as he arrives at the Airport Courthouse to face charges of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death in Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)" border="0" /></a>AP - Michael Jackson's doctor returns to court in April to find out the date for the next major step in the case &mdash; a proceeding that will reveal for the first time the evidence the prosecution believes will show his "gross negligence" was the direct cause of the pop star's death.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_en_mu/us_michael_jackson_doctor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.880f9dc74f304657bad62c0068fd28fa.michael_jackson_doctor_cajr110.jpg?x=122&y=130&q=85&sig=KbVstSPbSggQ3I7MkTEr6g--" align="left" height="130" width="122" alt="photo" title="Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, is escorted by Los Angeles County Sheriffs deputies as he arrives at the Airport Courthouse to face charges of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death in Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/en_nm/us_jackson nm/20100209/us_jackson Reuters entertainment Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:23:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/en_nm/us_jackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r4195481388.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=_qZc.LpB1GE2YEziYUkuVg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Conrad Murray (2nd R) stands with his attorneys J. Michael Flanigan (L), Joseph Low (2nd L) and Edward Chernoff during his arraignment at the Los Angeles Superior Court Airport Branch Courthouse, February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Mark Boster/Pool" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The doctor hired to care for Michael Jackson was charged on Monday with killing the pop star after a lengthy investigation that found a lethal cocktail of drugs in the singer's system when he died last year.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/en_nm/us_jackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r4195481388.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=_qZc.LpB1GE2YEziYUkuVg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Conrad Murray (2nd R) stands with his attorneys J. Michael Flanigan (L), Joseph Low (2nd L) and Edward Chernoff during his arraignment at the Los Angeles Superior Court Airport Branch Courthouse, February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Mark Boster/Pool" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_kerik_investigation ap/20100209/us_kerik_investigation AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:05:28 GMT AP - Federal prosecutors say former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik should go directly to jail when he's sentenced next week. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_serial_cat_killings ap/20100209/us_serial_cat_killings AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:02:49 GMT AP - A graphic designer accused of surreptitiously killing a series of his girlfriend's cats pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated animal cruelty, ending an eerie case in which authorities said the unsuspecting woman kept replacing her dying pets.