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Germany to Finally Overturn 50,000 Convictions for Male Homosexuality

Edit Newsweek 12 May 2016
Germany will finally overturn convictions for male homosexuality and compensate the victims, its government has announced. From 1949 to 1969, under a Nazi-era law that criminalized male homosexuality, 50,000 men in West Germany received convictions and, in some cases, prison time ... the taint of conviction.”....

Woman convicted of role in tax refund scam run by prisoners

Edit The Washington Times 12 May 2016
DENVER (AP) - A federal jury in Denver has convicted a woman of conspiracy and seven other charges stemming from a tax refund scheme that prosecutors say was being run by Colorado prison inmates. The Denver Post reports (http.//goo.gl/7ERJgM ) 36-year-old Cristina Portillos was convicted Friday after a five-day trial ... ....

Woman convicted of role in tax refund scam run by Colorado prisoners

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 12 May 2016
DENVER — A federal jury in Denver has convicted a woman of conspiracy and seven other charges stemming from a tax refund scheme that prosecutors say was being run by Colorado prison inmates. The Denver Post reports 36-year-old Cristina Portillos was convicted Friday after a five-day trial and is scheduled to be sentenced July 29 ... In all, more than 250 false refund claims were submitted. Portillos and five alleged co-conspirators were ... ....

Death penalty arguments to begin for convicted killer of 3

Edit The Oklahoman 12 May 2016
The 38-year-old Madison was convicted last week of aggravated murder and kidnapping....

Murder conviction downgrade appeal approved by High Court

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 12 May 2016
The High Court rules it will hear Queensland's Director of Public Prosecutions' appeal against the downgrading of Gerard Baden-Clay's murder conviction to manslaughter .......

Chris Brown formally disendorsed by Labor after failing to reveal past convictions

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 12 May 2016
Labor's former candidate for the federal seat of Fremantle, Chris Brown, is formally disendorsed by the party after revelations he did not disclose convictions from the 1980s ... ....

Convicted child molester appeals life sentence

Edit The News Tribune 12 May 2016
A Prosser man sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting a young girl, who accused him of tying her up repeatedly, is appealing his conviction ... ....

Not Forgotten: State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby Promises to Pursue Killer of 16-Year-Old after SAO Exonerates Man Convicted of her Murder (Office of the State’s Attorney’s for Baltimore City)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016
Bryant was convicted of felony murder, second-degree murder, and wearing/carrying/a deadly weapon ... Bryant has maintained his innocence and has been unwavering in this claim for more than a decade, exhausting all rights to appeal, initiating several petitions for post-conviction relief, and enlisting the assistance of the University of Baltimore Innocence Project, whom have zealously advocated on his behalf....

N.J. Supreme Court tosses rape conviction over tainted jury

Edit NJ dot com 12 May 2016
TRENTON -- The state Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the conviction of a Piscataway man serving a 10-year sentence for raping a prostitute in 2006. In a unanimous decision, the justices held that Richard Willis' trial jury was prejudiced because the court allowed them to hear testimony from another woman who claimed she had also been raped by Willis -- a crime for which he was not convicted....

Jury Convicts Miguel Villanueva of Premeditated Attempted Murder (Kern County District Attorney's Office)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016
(Source. Kern County District Attorney's Office) 7ecf191f-5d89-4eb4-9320-af95b1825b9c.pdf. OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY C O U N T Y O F K E R N. CIVIC CENTER JUSTICE BUILDING 1215 TRUXTUN AVENUE. BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA 93301. (661) 868-2340, FAX. (661) 868-2700 ... SPIELMAN ... District Attorney Lisa Green announced a conviction on a significant case today ... /....

Prosecutor plans to show 'Grim Sleeper' killed 5 more women

Edit Palm Beach Post 12 May 2016
Los Angeles prosecutors plan to present evidence of five more killings against the man convicted in the "Grim Sleeper" murders ... after his convictions in the serial ......

Tom Peterkin: Labour needs conviction on Scots independence

Edit Scotsman 12 May 2016
Scottish Labour’s recovery depends on doing better on the independence question, writes Tom Peterkin. The amateur pathologists, who like to conduct post-mortem examinations of electoral meltdown, are always swift to offer their diagnoses in the aftermath of a party's downfall ... The over-riding impression is that despite Labour and Ms Dugdale paying lip-service to the Union, they lacked the courage of their convictions ... ....

Chris Brown addresses assault conviction

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 12 May 2016
Chris Brown says statements he was charged with assaulting a police officer are incorrect ... ....
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