New Jersey Sex Offenders Notified Pending Supreme Court Ruling
The U S Supreme Court has not decided whether to hear an appeal challenging New Jersey’s Megan’s Law. Justice David Souter rejected a bid to keep a court order barring community notification in place. The law awaits procedures to allow offenders to challenge risk classifications before notification begins.
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New Jersey
U.S. Supreme Court
David Souter
State Public Defender’s Office
Souter
Supreme Court
U.S. Orient Court of Appeals
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Fifth Trial For Murder Suspect Peters In Florida
Fort Pierce Florida a fingerprint on the murder weapon and witness accounts tied Colandro Peters to killing a man over a $10 crack deal. Peters faced his fifth trial after four prior mistrials with deadlocked juries or witness issues as prosecutors pushed to retry the case. Defense argued the repeated prosecutions amount to cruel punishment.
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Fort Pierce
Fla
Colandro Peters
Peters
Mark Harllee
Lynn Park
Chris Slobogin
University of Florida
School board upholds tolerance poster at Chesterton High
Duneland School Corp. vote 4-1 to keep a classroom poster promoting tolerance for homosexuals in English class. The Black and white display features ten famous figures including Cole Porter Walt Whitman Michelangelo and Eleanor Roosevelt with the caption linking sexual orientation to achievement.
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Chesterton
Ind
Bonney Leckie
Duneland School Corp
Chesterton High
Cole Porter
Walt Whitman
Michaelangelo
Eleanor Roosevelt
Juror hears Unabomber case angle on lack of bombings
A Sacramento prospective juror highlighted the quiet since Theodore Kaczynski’s arrest in 1996 as potential evidence against him. Prosecutors cannot mention or use the absence of attacks in court, and witnesses will be barred from doing so. Jury selection resumes with a Dec 29 trial start after a Christmas break.
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Sacramento
Calif
Theodore Kaczynski
Kaczynski
Gilbert Murray
Joe Russomello
U.S
San Francisco
Iial
Man resembling John Doe 2 hires as dishwasher after Oklahoma City bombing
In Duncan Oklahoma a veiled man matching the John Doe 2 sketch entered a waffle shop seeking work. Darvin Bates hired him briefly, then reported him to the FBI. Bates testified in Terry Nichols trial noting the man quit the same day. Prosecutors say John Doe 2 was not involved in the attack.
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Denver
Oklahoma City
John Doe 2
Duncan
Okla
John
Darvin R. Bates
Bates
Terry Nichols
FBI
Kingman
Atiz
Timothy McVeigh
Investigators ask Ramsey friends about shoes
Boulder police question Ramsey friends about owning two types of shoes. Investigators seek possible footprint evidence in JonBenet Ramsey case, with comments from Pam Griff and former FBI agent Gregg McCrary noting the shoe inquiry implies footprint traces.
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Denver
JonBenet Ramsey
Ramsey
Boulder
Pam Griff
JonBenet
John
Patsy Ramsey
Gregg McCrary
FBI
Robber Gang Ties to Chinatown Linked to Pulaski Heist
Investigators say Lin Wan Sheng and an accomplice robbed the Garden Dragon Chinese Restaurant in Pulaski at closing time November 16, binding two victims and fleeing to New York City’s Chinatown. Lin, leader of a feared gang proxy linked to Flying Dragons, has ties across New York New Jersey and Connecticut and is sought on a murder warrant in New York State.
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Lin Wan Sheng
The
Pulaski
Huang Zou
New York
New York City
Chinatown
New Jersey
Connecticut
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Jersey City
Crme
Flying Dragons
Hudson County
Central Park
Jersey Shore
Five armed robberies tied to Jersey City case and kidnapping
Lin faced five robberies of Chinese restaurants and a kidnapping linked to the Jersey City case. Police say a small New York plate car arrived at closing with a lookout while others entered, beat workers, duct taped them, and stole cash. Lin denied guilt at a lengthy interrogation, and his father traveled from Buffalo to post bail.
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Tamburelli
Hudson County
Lin Qing Guo
Buffalo
Jersey City
New York
Pulaski
John Wood
New Jersey
Wood
Fujian
Families hear grim details of TWA 800 crash
Relatives of 230 victims attend a Portation Safety Board hearing in Baltimore as engineers describe the plane’s destruction. They view seats, body fragmentation slides, and a poster of the final seconds, while some press for new safety rules and accountability.
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Judy Lychner Teller
Springfield
Baltimore
Charles V. Weill
Suffolk County Medical Examiner
Weill
Wetli
New York State
John Seaman
Clifton Park
Michele Becker
Frank Carven
Belair
Hans Ephraimson-Abt
Korean Airines
House Republicans press Reno on independent counsel decision
Republicans accuse Attorney General Janet Reno of defying calls for an independent counsel into fund raising phone calls by President Clinton and Vice President Gore. Reno faces House questioning over a subpoena demanding Lews Freeh memo, with Freeh also scheduled to testify before the committee.
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Janet Reno
Clinton
Gore
Reno
Congress
FBI
Lews Freeh
Freeh
House Government Reform and Oversight Committee
Clinton may bypass Senate to fill civil rights post
Clinton administration officials warned that if Senate Republicans block Bill Lam Lee's nomination to head the Civil Rights Division, the president may appoint him during recess. The move would bypass Senate approval temporarily, risking a major clash with a Republican Congress.
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Clinton
Senate
Bill Lam Lee
Justice Department
White House
Capitol Hill
Congress
Lee
White House notes on fund-raising delay surface
On the eve of Heno's and Freeh's testimony a controversy over belated Oval Office notes from 1996 about Clinton money coffees in the Map Room emerged. Investigations into Whitewater White House travel office firings and fund-raising abuses followed with videotapes of events turned over after subpoenas. Republicans denounced the delay while aides blamed bureaucratic bungling and acknowledged withholding for over a year documents stating Clinton used a taxpayer funded Units Haven database to track contributors and share with the Democratic Party.
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Freeh
Oval Office
Clinton
White House
Whitewater
Frustrated judge sends Robert Downey Jr to jail
The judge presiding over Robert Downey Jr life sentence case orders six months in jail after previously delaying prison for drug and weapons charges. Downey, known for Chaplin, had been on three years probation after a no contest plea.
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Robert Downey Jr
Lawrence Mira
Mira
Downey
Arm “Chaplin
Jones amends harassment suit against President Clinton
Pam Corbin Jones files a revised harassment suit against President Clinton on Monday seeking 525000 dollars. The complaint alleges Clinton as governor favored female state employees who submitted to his advances and drops a defamation claim against co defendant Danny Ferguson.
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Pam Corbin Jones
Clinton
Danny Ferguson
Jones
Ferguson
Mick Jagger’s New Baby Boy in London
Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall welcomed a baby boy named Gabriel Luke Beauregard Jagger in London. The 8-pound 3-ounce infant is the couple’s fourth child, with Jagger on tour in Atlanta. Mother and child are reported in good condition.
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Rolling Stones
Gabriel Luke Beauregard Jagger
London
Jagger
Jerry Hall
Joaneen
Bran Curtie
New York
Atlanta
The
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