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Why do innocent people confess to crimes?
Japan has a conviction rate of more than 99%. But in recent months there has been a public outcry over a number of wrongful arrests where innocent people confessed to crimes.
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Appeals court: Motorist cannot be stopped for giving police the middle finger
A motorist cannot be stopped for “giving the finger” to a police officer, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
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Behind Google's Antitrust Escape
After early hopes for a sweeping antitrust case against Google, it became clear to the Federal Trade Commission last fall that no such lawsuit was in the offing.
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Google Antitrust Decision: What Does It Mean For Your Business?
Probably nothing good as the FTC barely slapped Google on the wrist. Now, small businesses have to learn to live with it.
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Aurora shooting suspect ‘was out of it’ after arrest
The man accused of shooting dead 12 people inside a Colorado cinema was relaxed but “out of it” in the moments after the massacre, a court has heard.
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Driver's Facebook scheme to avoid speeding ticket backfires
As it turns out, courts don't like it when you find someone on Facebook to take the blame for your speeding offenses.
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Animal killer released and expected to live in Vancouver
The B.C. Corrections Branch has issued a rare public warning about a convicted animal killer with an “escalating criminal history” who has been released into Metro Vancouver.
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Former beauty queen pleads guilty in Stanley Cup riot
A former beauty queen whose crowning as Miss Congeniality made her one of the highest-profile suspects in Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot has pleaded guilty, and her lawyer has suggested the woman's international notoriety has gone far beyond what her case deserves.
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Priest jailed for 8 years after 5,000 child porn images found in church office
A Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty last year to federal child pornography charges was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison.
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Is is legal to restrain passengers?
A photograph of a man on a flight from Iceland to New York apparently taped up and gagged after alleged unruly behaviour has been circulated and published extensively. But what are the rules on restraining passengers?
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Rape case 'an awakening' for India, victim's father says
The father of the woman whose rape and fatal beating provoked outrage across India and worldwide says his daughter's death "brought an awakening to society."
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TV host Jimmy Savile exploited fame to abuse children on vast scale
Britain's late TV presenter and radio host Jimmy Savile sexually abused hundreds of people and carried out more than 30 rapes, police said Friday, as they unveiled a report exposing "vast, predatory and opportunistic" abuses across six decades.
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Egypt court orders retrial for Mubarak
Former president and ex-interior minister to face new trial for complicity in killing of protesters in 2011 uprising.
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Parents Admit Giving Baby Heroin
The 11-month-old baby boy died of acute heroin intoxication.
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Another gang rape in India
In an incident eerily similar to a sexual assault that sent shock waves worldwide, Indian police say a woman was gang-raped over the weekend by seven men after she boarded a bus at night.
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Good Samaritan finds kidnapped child
A 5-year-old girl abducted Monday from a West Philadelphia elementary school was found early Tuesday barely dressed and crying under a slide at a playground, police said.
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Russia's Bolshoi Ballet director may lose sight after acid attack
Doctors are fighting to save the sight of the artistic director of Russia's illustrious Bolshoi Ballet after a masked assailant threw acid in his face on a Moscow street, state media reported.
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Eerie & Unusual Last Meals Of Inmates On Death Row
The guilty will be executed & sentenced to death in a variety of ways, from hanging, shooting, electric chair, decapitation through to the most common – lethal injection. In America, however, inmates are granted one final meal of their choosing prior to meeting their maker.
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Bali drugs: Death sentence for Briton Lindsay Sandiford
A British grandmother has been sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia for drug trafficking.
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Woman suing Match.com after date attempted to murder her
Mary Kay Beckman was stabbed 10 times by a man Match.com recommended as a date.
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