Judge in Kansas rules born-again Christian who killed George Tiller with .22-calibre gun must stand trial for murderA born-again Christian who believes abortion is a sin failed yesterday to convince a judge that he need not stand trial for murder after he admitted shooting dead an abortion doctor.Scott Roeder, 51, told the court in Wichita, [...]
A judge has ruled that a jury cannot consider a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter for a man who admits killing prominent Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
He was not wrong about intervention. It was his political judgment that went badly awry. If only this was Chilcot’s focusTony Blair does not make it easy for those who still insist on trying to judge him and his era in the round. The money has become disturbing. The lapses into solipsism, even sanctimony, strike [...]
Couple who fled to Tennessee fearing persecution for keeping their children out of school win first case of its kind in USA US judge has granted political asylum to a German family who said they had fled the country to avoid persecution for home schooling their children.In the first reported case of its kind, Tennessee [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A judge on Tuesday rejected a request by convicted shoe-bomber Richard Reid to relax special restrictions on his incarceration that include limits on his communications to the outside world.
A northeastern Pennsylvania prosecutor drops her efforts to retry as many as 46 youths who appeared before a judge charged in a corruption scandal.
This week sees the inquiry’s real purpose – restoring trust in British government – being put to the test. After contributions today from former ministers, and key legal advisors later in the week, the one man the public has been waiting to hear will appear on Friday. Mr Blair understands history will judge him by [...]
A Los Angeles judge has ruled Roman Polanski must return to the U.S. to be sentenced in a decades-old sex case.
A man accused in a fatal shooting outside an Arkansas military recruiting center says in a letter to the judge that he wants to change his plea to guilty and claims ties to an al-Qaida offshoot.
A Texas judge who closed her court before a death-row inmate could file his final appeal should not lose her job, a judge presiding over her ethics trial says in a report.