http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ CRIMINAL AND CIVIL COURT NEWS en-us 2008-05-13T00:28:31-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006261.html A former Arizona teacher has been sentenced to six months in jail for having a sexual relationship with one of her students at Paradise Valley High School. Jennifer Mally, 27, pleaded guilty in March to three felony charges of sexual... 6261@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-13T00:28:31-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006260.html ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A central Florida man has been sentenced to death for murdering his ex-girlfriend by setting her on fire. Orange County Circuit Judge Lisa Munyon followed a jury's recommendation when she sentenced 21-year-old Dane Abdool. The jury... 6260@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-13T00:27:49-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006259.html MIAMI - Prosecutors said they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor when the crime was committed. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled... 6259@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-13T00:27:32-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006258.html CHICAGO - Attorneys and the judge in R. Kelly's child pornography trial began questioning 150 potential jurors, asking what they know about the allegations against one of urban music's biggest stars. The 41-year-old R&B singer, known for sexually charged hits... 6258@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-13T00:27:11-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006257.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts. U.S. Attorney John Wood said the... 6257@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-13T00:26:53-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006256.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Presumably, she didn't fleece Prince Charles. But a couple of young jet-setters plan to admit in court that other people who crossed their paths unwittingly financed their luxury lifestyle. A lawyer for Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, said that... 6256@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-13T00:26:38-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006255.html CLEVELAND (AP) - Even by tough, urban-crime standards it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head.... 6255@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-13T00:26:14-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006254.html CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Federal immigration agents raided a northeastern Iowa meat processing plant, arresting more than 300 people and housing many of them at a converted fairgrounds. The raid of the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville was the... 6254@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-13T00:26:01-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006253.html NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A small-time New Jersey actor accused of traveling to Thailand to have sex with underage boys was denied bail. U.S. District Court Judge Michael A. Schipp ordered Wayne Nelson Corliss of Union City to remain in... 6253@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-13T00:25:40-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006252.html Jury selection has begun in the trial of R&B star R. Kelly on 14 charges of child pornography related to him videotaping himself having sex with minors. Before jury selection began, Cook County Circuit Judge Vincent Gaughan turned down a... 6252@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-12T00:32:21-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006251.html A former friend and memorabilia dealer has written a tell-all book about O.J. Simpson in which he claims the former NFL star confessed to killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Mike Gilbert says Simpson confessed while taking sleeping pills,... 6251@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-12T00:32:04-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006250.html Almost four decades after Charles Manson and his followers committed their "Helter Skelter" murders, authorities plan to search for more possible victims at the group's hideout at Barker Ranch in Death Valley National Park. But Manson's top lieutenant, Charles (Tex)... 6250@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-12T00:31:49-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006249.html HOUSTON (AP) - The bodies of five people, including three young children, were found Saturday afternoon on a sprawling property with several structures in northeast Houston, police said. A neighbor made the grisly discovery after seeing a man's body on... 6249@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-12T00:31:19-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006248.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A former college student accused of stealing people's credit to travel the world with her Ivy League boyfriend is nearing a federal plea deal, her lawyer said. Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, and Edward Anderton, 25, are due in... 6248@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-12T00:30:22-05:00 http://www.courtnewsreport.com/archives/006247.html Four times between the winters of 2002 and 2005, a blue-eyed man wearing a ski mask and dark clothes crept quietly into the bedrooms of women in Bloomington, Ill., and raped them. He told the women — all in their... 6247@http://www.courtnewsreport.com/ 2008-05-12T00:29:57-05:00