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Jury finds Afghan family guilty in honor killings (AP)

Mohammad Shafia reacts as he his led away from the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ont., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, after being found guilty of first degree murder of his three daughters and childless first wife. A jury took 15 hours to find Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in a case so shocking it has riveted Canadians from coast to coast. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes)AP – A jury on Sunday found three members of an Afghan family guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as “cold-blooded, shameful murders” resulting from a “twisted concept of honor,” ending a case that shocked and riveted Canadians.


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Teacher fakes jury duty note to get out of class

A Manhattan high school teacher who couldn’t spell her way out of trouble was busted for faking a jury duty letter to get out of class for two weeks.

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Celebrities join design jury for AIDS memorial park  

Actress Whoopi Goldberg and shoe designer Kenneth Cole have joined the jury that will choose a design for an AIDS memorial park in New York City.

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Rayon McIntosh, McDonald’s cook, testifies before grand jury in bid to beat assault rap

The case of the Manhattan McDonald’s cook caught on tape beating two women is before a grand jury, with prosecutors looking to indict all three people involved.

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Khadafy kid to face jury in Libya

The son of slain desert despot Moammar Khadafy will face his countrymen inside a Libyan courtroom — unlike his father, who hid from justice inside a sewer pipe.

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Nixon defended his legacy in grand jury tape (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 1974, file photo, Richard Nixon says goodbye to members of his staff outside the White House in Washington as he boards a helicopter for Andrews Air Force Base after resigning the presidency in Washington. Nixon's grand jury testimony about the Watergate scandal that destroyed his presidency is finally coming to light. Four months after a judge ordered the June 1975 records unsealed, the government's Nixon Presidential Library was making them available online and at the California facility Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011.  (AP Photo/File)AP – Feisty and cagey, ex-President Richard Nixon defended his shredded legacy and shady Watergate-era actions in grand jury testimony that he thought would never come out. On Thursday, it did.


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Jury to begin considering fate of Jackson doctor (AP)

Dr. Conrad Murray listens as defense attorney Ed Chernoff, not pictured, gives the defense's closing arguments during the final stage of Conrad Murray's defense in his involuntary manslaughter trial in the death of singer Michael Jackson at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, Pool)AP – After six weeks of listening, jurors in the involuntary manslaughter case of Michael Jackson’s doctor will get their first chance to talk about the case Friday.


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