The Legalizer

Lawyer: Iraqi shoe thrower to be freed Sept. 14 after getting early release for good behavior

Bureau News — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:45:01 +0000

Lawyer: Iraqi shoe thrower to be released early BAGHDAD — An Iraqi journalist jailed after hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behavior, his lawyer said Saturday. Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s act during Bush’s last visit to Iraq as president turned the 30-year-old reporter into [...]

Lawyer: Iraqi shoe thrower to be freed Sept. 16 after getting early release for good behavior

Bureau News — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:32:29 +0000

Lawyer says Iraqi shoe thrower to be released BAGHDAD — A lawyer says an Iraqi journalist jailed after hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush will be released next month after his sentence was reduced. Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s act during Bush’s last visit to Iraq as president in December turned the 30-year-old reporter into a folk [...]

Calif. kidnapping suspect testified that he committed earlier rape to fulfill sexual fantasies

Martin Griffith — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:30:56 +0000

Kidnapping suspect once admitted to sex fantasies RENO, Nev. — Phillip Garrido spent the 1970s on one debauchery after another: LSD trips, cocaine binges, pot smoking, public masturbation. Then in 1976, he found a new way to indulge his twisted sexual fantasies. He kidnapped a woman from a South Lake Tahoe parking lot, handcuffed her, took four [...]

Authorities missed several chances to catch kidnapping suspect in last 20 years

Terry Collins — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:52:14 +0000

Many missed chances to catch kidnapping suspect ANTIOCH, Calif. — Jaycee Lee Dugard has been subjected to what police say was nearly a lifetime of torment in a backyard compound set up by a religious zealot with a rap sheet dating to the 1970s. Prosecutors say she was raped and had two children by her captor, [...]

Benazir’s protocol officer files petition against Musharraf, Malik in LHC

Ani — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:12:29 +0000

LAHORE - Slain Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s protocol officer, Chaudhry Aslam, has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking registration of a case against former President General Pervez Musharraf in connection with the former premier’s assassination. Interior Advisor Rehman Malik, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan, former Intelligence Bureau Director General Ejaz [...]

Jury finds southwest Fla. man guilty of abducting, raping, killing young mother

Bureau News — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:17:32 +0000

Jury: Fla. man guilty of woman’s abduction, murder SARASOTA, Fla. — A jury has found a southwest Florida man guilty of kidnapping, raping and killing a 21-year-old mother of two who called 911 from his cell phone. Michael King could face the death penalty. Jurors in Sarasota deliberated for just a few hours before finding the 38-year-old [...]

Settlement between feds, environmentalists give mountain plovers second chance at protection

Bureau News — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:59:31 +0000

Feds to reconsider protecting mountain plovers DENVER — Federal officials will reconsider whether a bird that breeds in Colorado and neighboring states and summers in California should be protected. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed in a settlement announced Friday to review the mountain plover’s status and decide by July 31, 2010, whether it should be [...]

Marines won’t reinstate charges against officer in Haditha, Iraq, killings

Bureau News — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:48:54 +0000

Marines won’t seek new charges in Iraq killings CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The Marines won’t reinstate charges against the highest-ranking officer accused of a crime in Iraq. Spokesman Lt. Col. Roger Galbraith said Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani learned Friday that he will instead face a hearing to determine if he should be forced to retire and demoted. Chessani [...]

Phoenix woman indicted for murder in stabbing, dismemberment and burning of disabled man

Terry Tang — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:48:41 +0000

Phoenix woman indicted in dismemberment of man PHOENIX — A grand jury has indicted a Phoenix woman accused of stabbing a disabled man 50 times before dismembering and burning his body. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said Friday that 33-year-old Angela Simpson is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and abandonment or concealment of a dead body in [...]

Auction slated for Philly newspapers amid bankruptcy fight between company, creditors

Maryclaire Dale — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:25:25 +0000

Auction for Philly newspapers slated amid Ch. 11 PHILADELPHIA — Creditors seeking to take control of Philadelphia Newspapers in a hard-fought Chapter 11 bankruptcy case have hired a longtime publisher of the two dailies as an adviser. Bob Hall, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News from 1990 to 2003, would be part of the [...]