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Assault prompted by Gene Simmons comments

Though Kevin George Poe, 25, originally faced a maximum of 15 years in federal prison, he will now likely avoid incarceration.

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"Anonymous" assault prompted by Gene Simmons piracy comments

Though Kevin George Poe, 25, originally faced a maximum of 15 years in federal prison, he will likely avoid incarceration due to a sweet misdemeanor deal.

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Man charged with murder in woman's strangulation
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Harvey Davis is charged with murder in the death of Linda Spells, whose body was found about noon Saturday in the 2400 block of Francis in the back yard of a house connected to a church next door. The 53-year-old woman was partially clothed and had no ...
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Even after a judge exonerates a wrongfully convicted person on the basis of DNA and other evidence, Ohio prosecutors often appeal the ruling, which sparks concern about their commitment to justice.

That's exactly what happened in the case of Douglas Prade, who was declared innocent by a judge and freed last week, and Joseph D'Ambrosio, who was also wrongfully convicted and freed from death row, reported the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The cases highlight a mindset under which some prosecutors have continued their legal assaults on defendants after judges -- following thorough, articulated reviews -- attacked government attorneys as lacking even the basics needed to take their cases to trial.

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It has raised a growing concern about whether prosecutors are out to seek justice, as they are sworn to do, or to win cases at all costs.

Whatever the reason for appeal, the process can delay or prevent the exonerated from receiving compensation. It's too soon to know how the appeal in Prade's case will turn out, and D'Ambrosio has been battling appeals since a federal judge overturned his conviction in 2006, ruling that prosecutors withheld evidence that might have exonerated him at 1989 trial. Four years later, the presiding judge barred prosecutors from trying him again because they failed to disclose the death of a key witness, reported the Plain Dealer.

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Police have arrested a 28-year-old woman accused of pointing a gun at a school official outside Ashley Hall School in downtown. The Charleston Police Department charged Alice Boland of Beaufort withMore >>. Police reports released Tuesday indicate the ...

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Five years after the Columbus Post-Dispatch published its award-winning series "Test of Convictions," the paper caught up with five men who have been cleared through DNA testing since its publication. Through a collaboration with the Ohio Innocence Project, the series led to the DNA exonerations of four men: Robert McClendon, Raymond Towler, Joseph Fears and David Ayers. A fifth man, Douglas Prade, was freed just last week after DNA testing excluded him in the murder of his ex-wife. The District Attorneys' Office plans to appeal.

"Test of Convictions" uncovered Ohio's flawed evidence-retention system and the state's resistance to post-conviction DNA testing. The series also highlighted the need for DNA testing in the cases of 30 inmates. Of the 30, five were cleared through DNA, four were implicated, seven were denied testing, ten got inconclusive results and the remaining cases are still ongoing.

Just after Prade's release last week, the five exonerees met and shared their common experiences for the first time. The Dispatch Reports:

The first four freed Ohioans gathered at The Dispatch to commemorate the project and meet Prade, who, coincidentally, was released on the fifth anniversary of the Dispatch series. While sharing plates of spaghetti and lasagna at a local restaurant, which Prade called the best meal he had eaten in 15 years, the men swapped stories about life on the inside and just how much the world had changed on the outside.

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D.C. talk radio station WMAL turned down Grammy award-winning country musician Steve Vaus's attempt to buy ad time to air a politically charged song. According... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-wrigley/

A New York appeals court ruled last week that Queens prosecutors' violated the constitution through their interrogation program, which identified people without counsel to interrogate before reading them their Miranda rights. Roopal Patel http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roopal-patel/

Chuck Norris Column: Reducing Violent Crime In the US From the Inside Out
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Now, I'm not opposed to guns or to gun ownership. I've shot various kinds of guns in various contexts over the years. However, the notion that a person should own a gun because someone might try to victimize them is an argument that doesn't resonate with me. Mark Rice http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-rice/

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Jodi Arias Takes the Stand in Murder...
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Federal prosecutors have decided against charging Lance Armstrong with any doping-related crimes, despite his public admission that he used all manner of performance-enhancing drugs and techniques, US Attorney Andre Birotte said today. "We made a decision on that case a little over a year ago ," Birotte said when asked about...

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Canada to crack down on foreign corruption, bribery
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The federal government is redoubling its efforts to combat corruption and bribery by tabling amendments to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Tuesday. In its pursuit of "an aggressive, pro ...
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Corruption Currents: Brookfield Faces Bribery Charges in Brazil
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(This story was first posted on The Wall Street Journal Online's Corruption Currents blog at http://blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/.) By Craig Karmin and Paulo Trevisani. A Brazil prosecutor filed civil charges on Tuesday against a unit of ...

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Will murder of ex-SEAL Chris Kyle mar veteran job market?
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By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor. The weekend homicides of ex-Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and a friend in Texas have stoked fresh concerns among mental-health experts and veteran advocates that the crime's PTSD theme will ...

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Bad: A spat at a Connecticut restaurant prompted a 30-year-old woman to whip out a semiautomatic handgun and load it, police say. Worse: The restaurant was Chuck E. Cheese. Worst: Tawana Bourne was there with her child, the Hartford Courant reports. She's out on $50,000 bail after allegedly threatening...