In 1999, he was placed under police protection after receiving death threats following his role in convincing witnesses in a murder case to give testimony.
Now, in a second, it has overruled the Scottish appeal court and decided that prosecutors in a murder case, by withholding pivotal evidence, breached the accused's right to a fair trial.
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He was there ostensibly to meet with reputed Detroit Mafia street enforcer Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano, chief of a Teamsters local in New Jersey, who was later convicted in a murder case.
One day, Lawrence and Cain discussed a notorious murder case from 1927, in which a woman and her lover had bumped off her husband.
Thames Valley Police have been commended for their re-investigation into a landmark murder case.
A. dropped a quintuple murder case after his office couldn't find the lone witness.
That week they were starting a three-month trial for a horrific murder case.
Seward rose to give his closing argument in a local murder case.
Later in the year, a similar defense was floated in a Kentucky murder case, although ultimately that defendant did not argue the caffeine defense at trial.
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Despite calls from Brussels and Washington for her release, Ukrainian prosecutors have heaped more charges on Tymoshenko, bringing her to court in a tax evasion and embezzlement trial and investigating her over a 1996 murder case.
So in absence of an autopsy that proved that the wounds during the assault were related to Abdul Wali's death, prosecutors said they didn't feel comfortable pursuing a manslaughter or murder case.
When a defendant pleads guilty in a capital-murder case in Alabama, the state must present an abbreviated version of its evidence in court, and Amy sat quietly, clasping and unclasping her hands, while the prosecution described her crimes.
Prosecutor Habib Balian said he will prove a cold-case murder allegation against Gerhartsreiter, who spent years moving through U.S. society under a series of aliases, most notoriously posing as a member of the fabled Rockefeller family.
Cline tried to get him removed from the new trial, claiming the judge was involved in a conspiracy against Cline because he refused to dismiss another murder charge in a different case.
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Last month, one of its officers -- Hilton Botha -- was booted from a high-profile murder case after prosecutors reinstated attempted murder charges against him.
However, my investigation into her case led me to discover that a man was actually wrongly convicted of murder after the same experts wrongly identified a print his case too.
Botha was pulled from the Pistorius case last month after prosecutors reinstated attempted murder charges against him in a 2011 case.
Often, photo agencies get tips from regular people about where a celebrity (or in this case, a notorious but acquitted murder suspect) is hanging out.
The autopsy results have been turned over to Chicago police, who have been investigating the case as a murder.
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For example, British courts can try the case of a murder committed abroad, but only if the accused, not the victim, is British.
Her body was never found and Scotland's Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland ordered cold case detectives to reopen the case as a murder earlier this year.
Her body was never found and Scotland's Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland, ordered cold case detectives to reopen the case as a murder investigation last year.
Four policemen have been suspended and a fifth transferred over the handling of a suspected new rape and murder case close to the Indian capital, Delhi.
Street- smart, smart-alecky Detroit detective Amos Walker gets a bizarre missing-person case that leads to mayhem and murder via a passel of vividly drawn, colorful characters.
For my first novel, "Murder One, " I wanted my protagonist, a lawyer, to defend a woman accused of murder, but I'd never handled a criminal case.
Judges in the case accepted that a murder charge was unusual in relation to a stone throwing incident.
Naeem Davis, a 30-year-old homeless man, has been charged with murder in that case, which allegedly involved a verbal altercation between the two men.
"The world had been against him for five years before this case, for a murder he said he never committed and for which there is no evidence whatsoever, " Jimenez said.
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