Friday, April 25, 2008

NYPD officers cleared in killing; rights leaders want

NYPD officers cleared in killing; rights leaders want probe - Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK Civil rights leaders demanded a federal investigation and seattle personal injury attorney vowed to march through the streets in protest after three police officers were cleared of all charges Friday in the killing of an unarmed man cut down in a hail of 50 bullets on
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Beshear demands new search for education chief - Louisville Courier-Journal
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Responding to an opinion from the attorney general, Gov. Steve Beshear demanded yesterday that the Council on Postsecondary Education conduct a nationwide search for a new president. The opinion, released yesterday by Attorney
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E-mails: Mayor's attorney worried about media scrutiny in text - Detroit News
DETROIT -- E-mails released today show that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's city-paid private attorney was gravely concerned that details of a settlement in the whistle-blower case against the city would become public. During the negotiations that
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Calif. attorney general wants to expand use of DNA results - San Francisco Gate
California Attorney General Jerry Brown is changing state policy to expand the use of DNA results in some criminal cases. Currently, the state notifies law enforcement agencies only when a DNA test shows a complete match with someone who is in the
Source: www.sfgate.com
Judge: Man can seek acquittal in wife's slaying - Detroit Free Press
A little glimmer of hope came to the man convicted of killing his wife in their Clinton Township comic book store when a Macomb County Circuit Court judge ruled today that he will consider a motion from the man s attorney arguing that the judge
Source: www.freep.com