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Feb 2, 2009 7:34 PM CST

Boulder Cops Take Over JonBenet Case

(Newser) - Police in Boulder, Colo. are taking control of the investigation into JonBenet Ramsey's 1996 murder, the Colorado Daily reports. Reclaiming the probe from the Boulder County DA, police plan to include state and federal investigators and apply new technology to the cold case. “Some cases never get solved, but...

Texas Grand Jury Indicts Cheney, Gonzales

Nov 19, 2008 4:26 AM CST

Texas Grand Jury Indicts Cheney, Gonzales

Indictment, overseen by controversial DA, zaps pair over prison abuse

(Newser) - A grand jury in a small southern Texas county has handed down indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for "organized criminal activity" connected to abuse in federal prisons, Reuters reports. The indictments, overseen by controversial local District Attorney Juan Guerra, accuse Cheney of...

Dallas DA Makes Waves by Overturning Convictions

Nov 15, 2008 6:34 AM CST

Dallas DA Makes Waves by Overturning Convictions

DA makes waves with quest to root out wrongful convictions

(Newser) - Craig Watkins is becoming famous for something rather unusual for a district attorney: getting people out of jail, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Dallas County prosecutor is painstakingly going through hundreds of convictions secured by his predecessors, using DNA evidence to overturn wrongful convictions. His Conviction Integrity Unit has...

TV Lights Tone Down Former
NY DA Pirro

Sep 29, 2008 11:33 AM CDT

TV Lights Tone Down Former NY DA Pirro

She's 'in a very good place' after bumpy ride in marriage, politics

(Newser) - Becoming a TV judge seems, in her own words, to have “mellowed” Jeanine Pirro, who long added color to New York’s state political scene with a fiery stint as Westchester County’s district attorney, spiced with a brief Senate run opposite Hillary Clinton and a rocky marriage to...

Barkley Pays Up,
But It's Not Over Yet

May 21, 2008 11:44 AM CDT

Barkley Pays Up, But It's Not Over Yet

Ex-NBA star must shell out more for DA's fee

(Newser) - Former NBA great Charles Barkley has paid off his $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas casino, but he's still got a charge left to settle: the district attorney's office is levying a $40,000 processing fee. Barkley says he hadn't known about the extra charge, but plans to...

Spitzer: Hooked on Covert Ops

ANALYSIS

Mar 17, 2008 5:05 PM CDT

Spitzer: Hooked on Covert Ops

Ex-gov spent career trying to ditch silver spoon image

(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer didn't patronize a pricey call girl ring just for the sex, Chris Smith writes in a provocative New York post-mortem. What really attracted him was the covert op. The silver-spoon-fed Ivy Leaguer was always rebelling against being squeaky clean; as a young prosecutor, he got "hooked on...

Rob Bank, Violate Parole, Lose $1M

Nov 29, 2007 2:10 PM CST

Rob Bank, Violate Parole, Lose $1M

Or, how Mass. might take back this ex-con's lottery jackpot

(Newser) - A Massachusetts man who scored a $1 million jackpot this week wasn’t allowed to buy his ticket to begin with: He’s a twice-convicted bank robber whose five-year probation bars him from gambling. Now, the Globe reports, Timothy Elliot will find himself betting on whether the state will revoke...