Mr. JORDAN: Well, I don't know what they would be, but obviously if you have a murder committed, let's say in January of 2006, more than likely that murder case is not going to go to trial at the end of 2006, especially if you don't have court for substantial portion of the year.

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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.

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State prosecutor Gerrie Nel had said on Tuesday that Mr. Pistorius "shot and killed an unarmed woman" and he would argue the track star committed premeditated murder, a crime that commands a life sentence in prison.

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Police in Kerala detained the two officers, who deny they committed murder, triggering a diplomatic dispute with Italian authorities over who has jurisdiction in the criminal case.

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Dyche got 29 years, but shouldn't they have known how to recognise the clues that a murder was going to be committed?

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"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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The marines, who deny they committed murder, have become the center of a diplomatic dispute.

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Venables developed drugs and drinking problems, which initially went unnoticed by officials, began acting anti-socially, and while on two separate nights out, with a friend, told them he had committed the murder.

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Legal experts said it isn't uncommon in Colorado for defendants to initially be charged with more than one count of murder for a single offense, depending on how the alleged crime was committed.

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As a consequence of background checks, law enforcement has been able to stop people who have been convicted of murder from getting a gun, people who are under restraining orders for having committed violent domestic abuse from getting a gun.

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Within a year, it had been used in a Leicestershire double-rape-and-murder case, to prove one man could not have committed the crimes and to confirm another had.

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