O.J. Simpson’s lawyers are asking that he receive the minimum sentence of six years in prison for his October robbery and kidnapping conviction, calling a recommendation of 18 years “inappropriate and knee-jerk,” reports the AP.
Simpson was found guilty on October 3 in the armed robbery of two memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station hotel [...]

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William Balfour was held without bail Wednesday in the slayings of Jennifer Hudson’s family, and prosecutors suggested jealousy as a possible motive.
Balfour, facing first-degree murder charges for three killings, had threatened the family with harm if his estranged wife Julia Hudson – Jennifer’s sister – continued to date another man, prosecutors alleged at a bond [...]

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Duffel bags stuffed with cocaine were delivered by plane to an out-of-the-way suburban airport while two sheriff’s officers provided security. A police officer stood by to guard the cash and keep out the riffraff at a poker game where $100,000 changed hands. And a drug dealer was told squad cars marked “sheriff” and “sheriff’s police” [...]

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A Kmart worker was shot and critically wounded at a store loading dock Tuesday morning after he intervened in an argument between a co-worker and her boyfriend, police said.
The 35-year-old victim was shot three times, in the head, arm and chest, around 9:30 a.m., according to police. He was in critical condition at a hospital.
The [...]

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Jennifer Hudson’s estranged brother-in-law William Balfour, who was arrested this week in the October murders of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew, “did not commit these crimes,” the man’s lawyer tells PEOPLE.
“The delay between the crimes and his actual arrest show weaknesses in the case,” attorney Joshua Kutnick says. “This case is not a strong [...]

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Jennifer Hudson’s estranged brother-in-law was charged Tuesday with three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of three of her family members.
Prosecutors handed down formal charges against William Balfour in the deaths of Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew, said Tandra Simonton, spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Balfour had been in custody [...]

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A teenage rapper in London has been sentence to 4 1/2 years in jail for killing a 16-year-old over lyrics posted on the internet.
According to the BBC, an 18-year-old — whose name has not been released — pleaded guilty in court to the manslaughter of Ikye Nmezu from Edmonton, north London, back in February.
The rapper [...]

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World leaders have condemned the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, in which more than 100 people died.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deplored the attacks, saying they were well coordinated and apparently launched by people from outside the country.
“The well-planned and very orchestrated attacks, probably with external linkages, were intended to create a sense of panic [...]

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A Cincinnati man has been found guilty of murder in the 2006 shooting the friend of Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I.
Hosea Thomas was found guilty Wednesday of murdering T.I.’s entourage member, 26-year-old Philant Johnson. The 34-year-old Thomas was also convicted of felonious assault and illegally having a gun after a felony conviction.
T.I., whose real name is [...]

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Police for weeks had neither a suspect nor a motive in the beating death of a popular television anchorwoman. A suspect is now in custody, but many questions remain unanswered.
Officers arrested Curtis Lavelle Vance, 28, at a home in Little Rock on Wednesday night — tipped to his location after police held a late-evening news [...]

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Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 78 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. An explosion followed by a raging fire struck one of the hotels, the landmark Taj Mahal, early Thursday. Screams [...]

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Police on Tuesday identified the victim found dead in a Northside Dumpster on Friday and said they have charged a woman and three men in connection with the slaying.
Investigators said the body found beaten and shot in the a bin at the Water’s Edge Apartments was that of 17-year-old Donald Washington III.”(It was) wrapped [...]

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Both sides in the murder trial of Lillo Brancato agree on one thing: The once promising actor was a junkie who hit bottom on December 10, 2005 — the night an off-duty police officer was killed during a burglary.
In opening statements Monday, jurors were asked to decide whether Brancato was a partner in crime with [...]

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An Arizona prosecutor Friday asked to dismiss one of two murder charges against an 8-year-old boy suspected in the shooting deaths of his father and another man.
Apache County Attorney Criss Candelaria filed a one-paragraph motion in juvenile court to drop the murder charge accusing the boy of killing his father.
The motion gave no reason for [...]

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John “Junior” Gotti’s lawyers are asking a federal judge in Florida to move his murder conspiracy and racketeering trial to New York.
Gotti, son of the late Gambino family crime boss John Gotti, was indicted earlier this year by a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida.
“There is strong evidence to support the conclusion that the government’s [...]

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