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Pussy Riot Protest Footage Scrubbed From Russian Internet
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Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich, whose two-year prison sentence was suspended, filed an appeal of a lower court's November 2012 ruling that the clip was "extremist" and should be removed from Russian websites. A Moscow City Court rejected ...

A review of breathalyzers used by police in Port Moody, B.C., in 2011 indicates over a dozen of the devices were not properly calibrated. The... CBC http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ziann-lum/

MiamiHerald.com
Zhu Ruifeng, journalist who revealed corruption in Chongqing, worries China ...
MiamiHerald.com
BEIJING -- After Chinese state media announced last week that a sex video released by online journalist and activist Zhu Ruifeng had led to the ouster of 10 officials for corruption, Zhu should have been a shining star of the Chinese Communist Party's ...
Luxury Home Sell-Off During China's Corruption CrackdownNew Tang Dynasty Television

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NEW YORK — One person was fired from the New York City medical examiner's office and another was suspended after a review found that some... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-mathias/

New York Daily News
Opening arguments begin in Edward Demirdjian's trial for murder of Sherra ...
New York Daily News
A former limo driver fatally shot the pretty 26-year-old mother of his child as she lay in her bed and then days later callously tried to collect $250,000 on her life insurance plan, prosecutors said Thursday. Sherra Morganstern was found with multiple ...

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Execution reprieve upsets murder victim relatives
Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON (AP) — Relatives of a slain Texas woman who were en route to the convicted killer's execution this week were stunned to get a call that a state judge had halted the punishment. "We were shocked and dismayed and sad and angry and a whole ...

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A Montgomery County District Court Judge granted Texas death row inmate Larry Swearingen a stay of execution yesterday, four weeks before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. The decision followed a hearing in which the Innocence Project and Swearingen's attorneys argued for DNA testing that could prove his innocence in the 1998 murder of Melissa Trotter.

Swearingen's attorneys argued that the current DNA testing statute was expanded by the Texas Legislature in direct response to Swearingen's unsuccessful requests for testing, reported KTRK (ABC-Houston).

Just before his ruling, Judge Kelly Case said, "I think we need certainty before we have finality."

The prosecution's request to set an August execution date was denied. Instead, Judge Kelly Case gave them 60 days to file a response to the motion before he makes a decision on DNA testing.

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More coverage:

Texas Tribune: Death Row Inmate Larry Swearingen's Execution Stayed (01/30/2013)

Houston Chronicle: Condemned man gets another reprieve (01/30/2013)

Associated Press: Judge withdraws execution date in college slaying (01/30/2013)