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Woman loses $13K in juror scam
A Florida woman was cheated out of $13,000 by scammers who persuaded her she owed the money because she had failed to perform her jury duty, St. Petersburg police said.
Such schemes have been reported throughout the country. In this case, the woman was persuaded to cover the claimed debt through prepaid cash cards, the Tampa Bay Times... [...]
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Defense lawyers abuzz about judge who found a drug-case defendant more credible than a cop
Criminal defense lawyers in Pinellas County, Florida, are talking about an unusual ruling earlier this month by a judge in a drug case.
Perhaps even rarer than a "Perry Mason" moment in which a police officer's testimony is contradicted by video evidence, it resulted from a St.... [...]
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Former football star Aaron Hernandez killed 2 strangers over a spilled drink, prosecutor says
Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez pleaded not guilty Wednesday to what a Massachusetts prosecutor described as drive-by ambush slayings of two strangers in 2012 over a spilled drink at a nearby Boston nightclub. A third man was wounded in the shootings.
Discussing... [...]
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Judge hits sheriff's vehicle in courthouse lot, is county's 2nd jurist charged with DUI in a month
A Florida judge was arrested Tuesday morning after her BMW sports utility vehicle struck a parked sheriff's department vehicle in a Broward County courthouse parking lot
Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal, 56, was charged with driving under the influence after the 8 a.m. incident,... [...]
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Accused triple murderer's 'death row x 3' tattoo poses hairy issue for trial court judge
Convicted last year in a brutal slaying and sentenced to death, William Clyde Gibson decided to get a tattoo on his neck. It says "death row x 3."
Now an Indiana trial judge must decide how
best to obscure it before the 56-year-old's pending trial in another murder case, the... [...]