CrimLaw

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News in the various murder cases:

Don't expect the girlfriend you held hostage when you killed a police officer to remain loyal to you when you escape from jail.

A 68 year old man confesses to a 33 year old murder in order to cleanse his soul before he has to face reckoning. And the prosecutor is going to try him.

On the other hand, in Wise County the prosecutor has declined to prosecute a murder because the Defendant is already in jail for life and it would just be a waste of time to get him another life sentence.

In the sniper case Muhammad's lawyers are seeking to have the capital murder charge dismissed because the entire jurisdiction was terrorized and no unbiased juror can be impaneled. It worked to get Malvo moved but I don't think it will get the capital charges dropped.

In the Scott Peterson case the Defense has asked the judge to make law enforcement turn over records of a murder of a late term pregnant woman which occurred before 24 July 2002, well before Peterson's wife was killed.
The other woman's body had been dumped in the water too.

Two men are accused of having killed a grocer in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico made the death penalty illegal in 1929. Now, the feds are intervening on the most tenuous of grounds - the grocer was involved in interstate commerce - and forcing a death penalty case upon them. People are not happy.

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