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CBS News
Chris Kyle Murder: Eddie Ray Routh, Iraq War vet accused in shooting death of ...
CBS News
(CBS/AP) STEPHENVILLE, Texas - A Texas sheriff says the man charged with killing a former Navy SEAL and his friend was shocked with a stun gun and restrained in his jail cell after becoming aggressive. PICTURE: Ex-Navy SEAL fatally shot on Texas gun ...

A homeless man with a hatchet claims he saved lives when he whacked an alleged assailant claiming to be Jesus and clutching a woman in... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-campbell/

An alleged attempted robbery of an assistant basketball coach outside a Detroit high school Friday evening has left one teenager dead and another wounded. The... David Sands http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sands/

WCVB Boston
Murder defendant goes berserk in court
Boston Herald
The Framingham man accused of killing his teenage wife and hiding her decaying corpse inside their apartment attacked her family members in court today, briefly delaying his murder trial, officials said. Kyle Alleyne walked into the Middlesex Superior ...
Murder suspect lunges toward victim's family in courtMy Fox Boston
Framingham Murder Defendant Attacks Victim's Family in CourtPatch.com

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CBC.ca
1st Stanley Cup riot trial begins in Vancouver
CBC.ca
The first trial involving the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver has heard a 26-year-old man doesn't remember smashing windows during the melee. B.C. provincial court has heard Spencer Kirkwood was caught on security video using a street barricade to break ...
Man doesn't remember smashing windows in Stanley Cup riotCTV News
First trial in Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot beginsGlobalNews.ca
Riot trial underwayCKNW News Talk 980

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The Independent
Football corruption: The only surprise is the surprise
The Independent
Europol investigators have uncovered a massive campaign of football match-fixing instigated by Asian gambling syndicates, which may have involved more than 400 players, match officials, club officials and gangsters. And all I can say is, “What took you ...

A retired Los Angeles priest who admitted to having sexual relations with a girl in his parish went on to be hired by the Los... Kathleen Miles http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-miles/

A 6-year-old girl from Pittsburgh took her mother's car out Sunday morning, hitting two parked cars and eventually smashing the vehicle into a utility pole,... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katherine-bindley/

NEW YORK — The FBI is playing a significant role in the investigation into the death of a New York City woman in Istanbul while... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inae-oh/

A rare Texas legal proceeding called a "Court of Inquiry" began this morning to consider whether a former Texas prosecutor should face criminal charges for his involvement in the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton, who served 25 years behind bars for the murder of his wife, Christine. The Innocence Project helped clear Morton through DNA testing, which proved his innocence and implicated another man.

Judge Ken Anderson, who was the district attorney prosecuting Michael Morton in 1987, is accused of concealing several pieces of evidence pointing to Morton's innocence during and after the trial. He has denied any wrongdoing in the prosecution of the case.

Tarrant County Judge Louis Sturns will hear evidence and then issue a ruling or take the matter under advisement. If he determines that Anderson acted unlawfully while prosecuting Morton, he will have to issue an arrest warrant charging Anderson, said the Austin American-Statesman.

Morton always maintained his innocence of the murder of his wife, who was found dead in their home by a neighbor the morning of August 13, 1986. At trial, the prosecution argued that Morton beat his wife to death after she refused to have sex with him upon returning from his 32nd birthday celebration at a restaurant. There were no witnesses or physical evidence linking Morton to the crime.

The Austin American-Statesman lists the following as the hidden evidence:

• Two transcripts of a police interview with Christine Morton's mother, Rita Kirkpatrick, who revealed that the Mortons' 3-year-old son Eric witnessed the murder and said Michael Morton wasn't home at the time. One transcript was found in sheriff's department files, and a shorter version was discovered in Anderson's trial file.
• A police report about suspicious behavior by an unidentified driver of a green van who, a neighbor said, on several occasions parked and walked into the wooded area behind the Morton house. A copy of the report also was found in Anderson's trial file.
• A note to Sgt. Don Wood, the sheriff's lead investigator, indicating that Christine Morton's credit card might have been used in San Antonio two days after her death.
• A police report saying a $20 check made out to Christine Morton had been cashed a week after her death. This report has since been revealed to be innocuous; bank records showed it was Michael Morton who cashed the check. Morton recently said he didn't remember doing so.

Read the full article.

Read more about Morton in his case profile and from Sunday's New York Times.

Follow Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck on Twitter live from the courtroom.

Austin American-Statesman staff writer Chuck Lindell is also in the courtroom providing live updates on Twitter.

José Ramón Aniceto Gómez and Pascual Agustín Cruz were exonerated by the Supreme Court of Mexico after almost three years in prison. The Court found that the men's rights were violated by denying them access to an interpreter during trial and that some of the crimes they were charged with never even occurred.

Four claimants have lost their appeals for compensation before the UK's High Court in spite of having been exonerated. The Court has begun applying a new higher standard for the wrongfully convicted to win compensation, one which media outlets have used to brand the innocent as "not innocent enough."

Scottish fingerprint expert Fiona McBride, who wrongly identified a latent print at the center of a murder case, won't be getting her job back due to doubts that her past misidentification would cast a doubt on the accuracy of any future findings.

David Bain, who was exonerated in June 2009 of the murder of his family, has filed a claim at the New Zealand High Court in Auckland against the Minister of Justice over the way she handled his compensation case.

A Kuwaiti man is suing the government for compensation after spending a year in jail for drug crimes he never committed and was convicted of in absentia. Upon his release, the man was able to prove that another man had committed the crimes while impersonating him using a forged passport.

Sexual groping on crowded urban trains is a growing problem in Japan, but so is wrongful convictions of supposed gropers.

Large increases seen in several crime categories in Bakersfield
Bakersfield Californian
Police Chief Greg Williamson said the jump in the overall crime rate was due to a large increase in property crimes. There were about 3,000 more property crimes in 2012 than in 2011, compared to several dozen more violent crimes such as homicides and ...

Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) took to Twitter Monday to respond to this weekend's fatal shooting of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. The suspect who... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ethan-klapper/

Globe and Mail
Spain ruling party vows legal action in corruption scandal
Channel News Asia
MADRID: Spain's ruling Popular Party said Monday it would take legal action against anyone who published or leaked information implicating its executives in a case of alleged corruption that has sparked calls for the prime minister to resign. Leading ...
Spanish corruption scandal and Italian election spook markets - as it happenedThe Guardian (blog)
Spain's Corruption Scandal Damages RajoyWall Street Journal (India)
Spanish PM rejects corruption allegationsStraits Times
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It's been all over the news, but Sarai Sierra's kids—boys ages nine and 11—still don't know their mother was found dead in Turkey , their grandmother tells the Today show. Their father is currently in Istanbul working alongside police to solve the killing. He's "going to talk to them...

Armando Cruz tied a noose around his neck and hanged himself from the ceiling of his prison cell. He left a note that ended in... Alana Horowitz http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alana-horowitz/

NM riot photos still haunt ex-corrections officer
CorrectionsOne
3, 1980, hours after the worst prison riot in New Mexico history came to an inglorious end, as she walked through the flooded and bloody corridors cluttered with burned and butchered body parts. Armijo, then a corrections officer at the Penitentiary of ...

Paul Guaschino, 61, allegedly reached for his baseball bat when a fellow Connecticut motorist gave him the finger.

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Paul Guaschino, 61, allegedly reached for his baseball bat when a fellow Connecticut motorist gave him the finger.

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Reducing Violent Crime in the US From the Inside Out (Part 3 of 4)
Town Hall
In Part 2, I showed how reducing the number of firearms in the U.S. would not curb violent crime. Today and next week, I will discuss an age-old solution that America's Founding Fathers knew was key for maintaining civility in our communities -- a ...

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