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Newly released video shown on HLN reveals Jodi Arias' odd behavior when she was left alone during police questioning about the death of her boyfriend... Michael McLaughlin http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-mclaughlin/

Charges of political motivation behind Indian corruption investigation
Washington Post (blog)
Indians have in the past joked that the country's powerful Central Bureau of Investigation is actually a “Coalition Building Initiative,” suggesting it uses ongoing corruption and criminal investigations against chiefs of regional parties as leverage ...

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Tougher sex crime law in India after gang rape protests
Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India approved on Thursday a tougher new law to punish sex crimes, including death for repeat rape offenders, after the fatal gang rape of a student in December sparked unprecedented protests over the treatment of women in the ...

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The investigation into the slaying of Colorado's prison chief has produced few clues over the past several days.

New York Times (blog)
Best-Selling Russian Writer Turns From Crime to History
New York Times (blog)
“I am no longer a crime novelist,” he declared. Mr. Chkhartishvili, 56, originally a literary scholar specializing in Japan, said he had already written his first history volume, about the period preceding the 12th-century Mongol invasion. The works ...

Seven people were shot at a Chicago club early Thursday morning, police said.

Colorado is reeling in the fatal shooting of corrections head Tom Clements, and police are scrambling to come up with either suspect or motive. Fearing additional attacks, the state is ramping up security measures for Gov. John Hickenlooper, lawmakers, and other officials, the Denver Post reports. Police aren't sure why...

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Testimony resumes in Jodi Arias murder trial, jurors to pose questions to ...
Fox News
Arias could face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder in the June 2008 killing of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home. Authorities say she planned the attack on her lover. Arias initially said she had nothing to do with it ...
Psychologist in Jodi Arias murder case to face questions from jurySan Jose Mercury News
Testimony resumes in Jodi Arias murder trialSeattle Post Intelligencer
Did Jodi Arias admit motive for murder?HLNtv.com
Washington Times
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An Idaho man accused of slapping a crying 19-month-old boy on a Delta flight pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday in Atlanta.

Students who get drunk and riot are just following an ancient stereotype
Irish Independent
They close down, while students get drunk and riot." Formal protests, for sure; a great deal of Hibernian huffing and puffing; reminders of the cultural debt that early Christianity in Britain owed to Irish missionaries; Irish columnists heatedly ...

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Gold shop dispute triggers religious-tinged riot in central Myanmar that left ...
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YANGON, Myanmar – A dispute between a Muslim gold shop owner and customers in central Myanmar has led to rioting in which several buildings were burned and at least five people were injured. One man may have been killed. President's office director ...
Myanmar riot kills 10Daily Star Online
Buddhist-Muslim riot breaks out in MeiktilaMizzima News
Two dead after Myanmar riotRadio Australia
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Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, 61, had his AOL e-mail account breached last week by the notorious online vandal.

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Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, 61, had his AOL e-mail account breached last week by the notorious online vandal.

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New images of loyalist flag riot suspects released
Belfast Telegraph
... would like to question in connection to disturbances during protests. BY CHRIS KILPATRICK – 21 March 2013. Police have released the pictures of 14 people they want to speak to following loyalist riots over the flying of the Union flag over Belfast ...

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Audacious crime family from Portland gets federal comeuppance for armored car ...
OregonLive.com
The Cabello clan's story is one of audacious inside jobs, secret wealth and one of the most peculiar households in the annals of Oregon crime and punishment. Government prosecutors say the family's run of felonies began nearly 18 years ago, in ...

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An Ohio jury recommended Wednesday that a 53-year-old man be sentenced to death for killing three men who had answered a Craigslist ad for work on a cattle farm.

5 of 6 officials guilty in Bell, Calif., corruption case
USA TODAY
The charges stem from an investigation into wide-scale corruption in the Los Angeles County city of 36,000 people. The Los Angeles Times won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the scandal, including disclosure of enormous compensation paid to the ...

5 of 6 former officials convicted in Bell, California, corruption case
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His attorney, George Mgdesyan, said Artiga was not involved in the committees where the corruption began. "We were not there. We did not vote for these authorities, we did not vote for these raises," Mgdesyan said. "My client was there every day ...

David Ranta, convicted of killing a beloved Brooklyn Rabbi in a foiled 1990 robbery, has been cleared of the crime with help from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit, and he will be freed on Thursday. According to The New York Times, police misconduct and fabricated informant testimony contributed to the wrongful conviction. One witness after another recanted, and, recently, the case completely unraveled. The New York Times reports:

Detective Scarcella and his partner, Stephen Chmil, according to investigators and legal documents, broke rule after rule. They kept few written records, coached a witness and took Mr. Ranta's confession under what a judge described as highly dubious circumstances. They allowed two dangerous criminals, an investigator said, to leave jail, smoke crack cocaine and visit with prostitutes in exchange for incriminating Mr. Ranta.

Of the witnesses who testified against Ranta, one admitted that she lied in an attempt to help her incarcerated boyfriend, one admitted to implicating Ranta in order to reduce his own sentence, and one revealed that police told him which person to choose from the lineup.

Ranta told The New York Times:

"I'd lie there in the cell at night and I think: I'm the only one in the world who knows I'm innocent," he said. "I came in here as a 30-something with kids, a mother who was alive. This case killed my whole life."

Ranta was represented by Michael Baum of Brooklyn Defender Services and Pierre Sussman.

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Eddie Joe Lloyd with Senior Staff Attorney Nina Morrison

The New Media Advocacy Project and The Constitution Project have produced a short documentary "Defending Gideon," which focuses on a lack of adequate indigent defense 50 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright. Screenings of the film were shown for the Department of Justice on Monday night and for Congress the following day.

An unknown number of people have been wrongfully convicted due, in part, to bad lawyering. In most of these cases, the problem is better defined by what the attorney failed to do rather than overt negligence or misconduct. However, in some cases, such as the case of Innocence Project client Eddie Joe Lloyd whose story is featured in the film, the quality of the representation is so poor that it merely compounds the injustice. Lloyd was represented by an attorney who was appointed to the case just eight days before trial, The attorney didn't cross-examine the police officer most directly involved in coercing a false confession from Lloyd, he called no defense witnesses and gave a five minute closing argument in which Lloyd was sentenced to death. His appellate lawyer didn't raise an ineffective assistance of counsel claim on appeal. In response to Lloyd's complaints about his representation, the appellate attorney wrote a note to the court saying that Lloyd should not be taken seriously because he was "guilty and should die."

Watch the entire film here.

Read more about the case of Eddie Joe Lloyd.