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A former caseworker faces forgery and other charges for false reporting interviews with victims, family members or witnesses in 12 cases of alleged child abuse or neglect, prosecutors said on Monday.
9.19.2017
12:03pm
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Glenn Chin, the supervisory pharmacist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center in Framingham, about 22 miles west of Boston, is to go on trial Tuesday for his role in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened...
9.19.2017
11:58am
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The number of patients being referred to the criminal wards at Washington’s congested psychiatric hospitals has soared in the last year, a trend that has befuddled state officials and prompted them to scramble for answers.
9.19.2017
11:55am
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Guns, ammunition, a Molotov cocktail and a school yearbook with pictures of faces marked with X’s were seized by police from the home of a Washington state high school sophomore accused of fatally shooting a classmate and wounding three other students,...
9.19.2017
11:44am
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Two long-imprisoned men were granted new trials Friday in a deadly 1993 video store robbery, after recent DNA tests on an important piece of evidence matched a man never connected to the case before.
9.19.2017
11:14am
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The use of genetic data to establish a physiological basis for violent or impulsive criminal behaviors is occurring more frequently in criminal trials. However, a new review finds that genetic evidence used in the courtroom is not likely to be effective...
9.18.2017
12:29pm
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In 1991, a jury convicted Darnell Phillips of raping a 10-year-old girl. Several years ago, the Innocence Project took up his case using DNA evidence. Last Wednesday, an Innocence Project attorney took the latest DNA evidence to a judge. This evidence...
9.18.2017
12:19pm
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Criminal trials can be won or lost based on what happens outside the presence of the jury, when lawyers do battle over what evidence they can present. That has been the case at the trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and the donor accused of bribing him,...
9.18.2017
12:11pm
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The Department of Justice will roll back some Obama-era oversight on local police departments, according to an announcement on Friday. The Collaborative Reform Initiative of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS office) will be changed...
9.18.2017
11:57am
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A new forensic lab launched in central Somalia could transform how the Puntland state government handles cases of rape and gender-based violence, and possibly create a model for the rest of the country to follow.
9.18.2017
11:03am
