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News : lawyers : posted : Aug 20, 2008

• Lawyers return to court over 1993 Ark. 0133 - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. It took a jury 13 days to convict and sentence Damien Echols to death for the 1993 slayings of three second-graders. Now, nearly 15 years later, Echols is hoping to convince the judge who oversaw his original case to grant 0133
  6 hours ago : Miami Herald
• NYC to pay 2 million to arrested war protesters - The city has agreed to pay 2 million to settle a lawsuit claiming 52 Iraq war activists were unjustly arrested, lawyers announced Tuesday. The activists were arrested in April 2003 outside the Manhattan offices of a military contractor, 0133
  3 hours ago : Forbes
• Suspected Fort Dix plotters seek delay in trial - MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. The five men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers at Fort Dix want their trial postponed because a key expert witness, an Army reservist, is being called to active duty in Iraq. According to defense lawyers, expert 0133
  18 hours ago : Miami Herald
• Lawyers return to court over 1993 Ark. slayings - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. It took a jury 13 days to convict and sentence Damien Echols to death for the 1993 slayings of three second-graders. Now, nearly 15 years later, Echols is hoping to convince the judge who oversaw his original case to 0133
  6 hours ago : Seattle Post Intelligencer
• Cathy Jayne Pearce ordered to pay 39,000 to lawyers - CONTROVERSIAL developer Cathy Jayne Pearce has been ordered to pay a 39,000 legal debt, despite claims she is suffering a severe heart condition . Adelaide Magistrate Terry Forrest refused to delay Pearce's case any longer after she 0133
  4 hours ago : News.com.au
• Capac man's lawyers want to move shootings trial - PORT HURON, Mich. AP - Lawyers for a Capac man charged in the shootings of the village police chief and a sheriff's deputy have asked for his trial to be moved from St. Clair County Circuit Court. The Times Herald of Port Huron 0133
  1 hour ago : WTOL-TV
• Sen. Stevens loses bid to move trial to Alaska - A federal judge says he will not move Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial to his home state of Alaska. Stevens is to go on trial next month on charges of lying about hundreds of thousands of dollars in home renovations and other services he 0133
  23 minutes ago : Seattle Post Intelligencer
• New hearings to begin for 'West Memphis Three' - LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas AP It took a jury 13 days to convict and sentence Damien Echols to death for the 1993 slayings of three second-graders. Damien Echols is on death row his attorneys say they have evidence they hope will clear him. 0133
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• INDEPENDENT VIEW Lawyers and our civil legal system - There are four important areas of change needed in our civil legal system conduct of lawyers and judges, speed of justice, tort reform, and more arbitration mediation. The outward symptoms call 1-800-lawyers, the tough or 0133
  3 hours ago : Sierra Vista Herald