Conviction

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November 16, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The full ethics committee will next conduct a hearing on the appropriate punishment for the former chairman…
November 9, 2010
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The court refused last month to overturn Simpson's 2008 conviction stemming from a gunpoint heist in…
October 22, 2010
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Simpson's lawyers argued that prosecutors improperly rejected two jurors because they were African American...
June 28, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) - Lt. Jon Burge, a decorated former Chicago police lieutenant, was accused of suffocating, shocking and beating confessions…
May 24, 2010
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The killings of Dashon Harvey, Iofemi Hightower and Terrance Aeriel spurred a wave of anti-crime measures…
February 8, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins became the first black district attorney in Texas. He didn't realize…
December 2, 2009
OPINION - Dozens of people recounted how criminal background checks punish them indefinitely by imposing lifelong barriers to successful employment…
November 18, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former Louisiana congressman who was sentenced to 13 years in prison on bribery charges will…