OklahomaPolanski lawyer claims LA Superior Court biased (AP)AP - A lawyer for Roman Polanski is accusing the Los Angeles Superior Court of bias and prejudice against the movie director, and is seeking removal of his case to the California Judicial Council for resolution.Source: Yahoo! News: Crimes and Trials News | 5 Jan 2009 | 6:41 pm Ohio man admits to plotting wife's strangling (AP)AP - A 74-year-old southern Ohio man has pleaded guilty to hiring someone to kill his wife in their farmhouse last spring.Source: Yahoo! News: Crimes and Trials News | 5 Jan 2009 | 4:14 pm Manslaughter charges filed in NYC crane collapse (AP)AP - A contractor was charged with manslaughter Monday for allegedly using worn, fraying safety straps that broke apart and caused a crane to crash down on a Manhattan neighborhood, killing seven people in one of the city's worst construction accidents in decades.Source: Yahoo! News: Crimes and Trials News | 5 Jan 2009 | 3:45 pm Prosecutors seek pre-trial jail for Madoff (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Crimes and Trials News | 5 Jan 2009 | 2:50 pm Ex-SC trooper caught kicking suspect pleads guilty (AP)AP - A former South Carolina trooper caught on video kicking a suspect in the head after a highway chase pleaded guilty Monday to violating the man's civil rights, according to federal court documents.Source: Yahoo! News: Crimes and Trials News | 5 Jan 2009 | 2:37 pm U.S. anti-kidnap expert's vanishing spins Mexico mystery (Reuters)Reuters - The abduction of a U.S. anti-kidnap expert in northern Mexico last month remains a mystery with no clues to the man's whereabouts and no ransom demanded by his captors, police said on Monday.Source: Yahoo! News: Crimes and Trials News | 5 Jan 2009 | 11:28 am |