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Activist Iranian Mother Of Two To Be Stoned To Death

CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom looks at the case of an Iranian mother who is to be stoned to death after an adultery conviction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyZS-G-dm6E added by: lvp

LA Sherriff Takes Woman To Court 63 Times

Source http://batteredbypd.wordpress.com/ The LA sheriff's department is pulling out all the stops for a misdemeanor conviction with a woman who never did anything wrong. Her blog above details all of the sheriffs actions including now over 63 mandated court appearances all in a city and state that is broke. She was taken to trial 3 times before she was finally convicted however her case is on appeal. This woman needs the ACLU. http://batteredbypd.wordpress.com/ added by: Colin_McCabe

High-profile Portugal child sex abuse ‘proved’

defendants in a child sex trial in Portugal have been found guilty of abusing children in the care of a state-run home. From BBC News The six men and one woman include Carlos Cruz, a former TV presenter, and Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador. Between them they faced hundreds of charges relating to the rape and abuse of 32 boys in the 1990s. The boys, now aged between 16 and 22, were all residents at the Casa Pia children's home in Lisbon. The judges in the case are still reading the full verdict in each of the hundreds of accusations, but the court has ruled that the vast majority of sexual abuse has been proven. The main suspect was a former driver from Casa Pia, whom the court found had abused boys on hundreds of occasions. He then began offering them to men, including Cruz, for cash. Horrific injuries Pedro Namora, a former Casa Pia resident now in his forties, hailed the result, saying: “I hope this day will allow us to show the country that the boys have told the truth from the start.” The seven convicted of abuse include Portuguese TV presenter Carlos Cruz However, Cruz has dismissed the verdict as a “mistake” and the result of “a vendetta”. “This is one of the most monstrous judicial mistakes in Portuguese history,” he said. The three judges in the case are expected to take turns reading out a summary of the verdict, which is reported to run to several thousand pages. The case is one of the longest-running in Portuguese history, lasting more than five years, with testimony from hundreds of people. During the trial, the 32 victims gave gruesome testimony about being raped by adults in dark cellars, cars and secluded houses. One of the victims, now in his early 20s, was so seriously abused that he is now incontinent. Almost all of them identified their abusers by pointing them out in the courtroom. However, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Lisbon says it is thought that there may be many other victims who are still too frightened to speak out. The alleged abuse at Casa Pia is said to have started in the mid-1970s, but was not discovered until 2002, when the mother of a boy placed at a state-run home in Lisbon said he had been abused by staff there. Casa Pia is a 230-year old institution which cares for about 4,500 needy children through a network of 10 homes. added by: BRAVATRAVELS

Watch Lie To Me Season 2 Episode 21 – Darkness and Light

Watch Lie To Me S2E21: Darkness and Light The latest installment of Lie To Me which is entitled “Darkness and Light” is the behavioral scientist hit TV show’s 21st episode of the 2nd season that aired last 08/30 /2010 Monday at 9:00 PM on FOX. The Lightman Team goes investigating the case of a missing woman which in their process of investigation finds that she may have an involvement in the porn business’ criminal activities. Watch Lie To Me 2×21(02021)

Paris Hilton to Be Charged With Drug Felony

Filed under: Paris Hilton , Celebrity Justice Paris Hilton will be charged with possession of a controlled substance — .8 grams of cocaine — this according to documents obtained by TMZ … and it’s a felony.

Mel Gibson Case Goes to District Attorney

Filed under: Mel Gibson , Oksana Grigorieva , Celebrity Justice The L.A. County District Attorney’s Office just got the Mel Gibson domestic violence case for review … sources in the D.A.’s office tell TMZ. We’re told the D.A. got the case at around 3:50 PM PT.

Movieline Graph: Does Michael Cera Really Play the Same Role in Every Movie?

When did it go wrong for Michael Cera? Once upon a time, he was the hippest comic actor in the room, yet to judge from the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World box office, the audience has turned on him. The most common complaint is that Cera too often plays himself (literally, in the case of Paper Heart ), so to judge that claim’s validity, Movieline has assembled a graph of Cera’s most frequent filmic characteristics.

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Beyonce — New Bikini, Same Old Yacht

Filed under: Beyonce Knowles , Beauty , Paparazzi Photo , Stars In Heat Even while vacationing on a yacht in the south of France, Beyonce can’t help but strike a pose like she’s on a photo shoot. Then again, Bey’s life is like living in a music video. Read more

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Lindsay Lohan — One Day to Freedom

Filed under: Lindsay Lohan , Celebrity Justice Lindsay Lohan may be a free woman in 24 hours … based on new developments in the case. As TMZ first reported , all signs are pointing to Lindsay Lohan being released from UCLA this week — and we’re hearing it will happen tomorrow.

Michael Jackson Doctor Conrad Murray’s Trial Set For January

Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s death. By Gil Kaufman Dr. Conrad Murray Photo: Toby Canham/ Getty Images More than a year after Michael Jackson’s death , the pop icon’s former personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was in court Monday (August 23) where a judge finally set a preliminary date of January 4, 2011, in the cardiologist’s involuntary-manslaughter trial . TMZ reported that Murray’s legal team won a request to get a fluid sample from Jackson as part of their defense strategy questioning the accuracy of levels of the surgical anesthetic propofol found in Jackson’s body. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office determined that Jackson, 50, died as a result of acute propofol intoxication. Murray has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of involuntary manslaughter and has admitted to giving Jackson propofol, a strong anesthetic usually used during surgery but allegedly employed by chronic insomniac Jackson as a sleep aid. Murray’s lawyers have said the physician did not administer any drugs that “should have” caused Jackson’s death. The investigation into his death was equally lengthy, lasting more than eight months, after which Los Angeles prosecutors charged that Murray gave the King of Pop a lethal combination of propofol and other painkillers and sedatives in the hours before the singer was found dead in his rented Los Angeles mansion on June 25, 2009. Murray faces up to four years in prison if convicted. After hearing from both sides in the case at the January court date, the judge, Michael Pastor, will determine if there is enough evidence to mount a full trial. Jackson’s mother and father, Katherine and Joseph, were in court on Monday, according to Radar Online , sitting in the front row as Judge Pastor set the preliminary hearing date. Pastor granted a protective order covering all evidence in the criminal case, meaning it cannot be released to anyone other than the lawyers, paralegals and investigators in the case. Murray’s defense team reportedly asked for access to three fluids collected by the coroner’s office, including ones taken from syringes and an IV tube to re-examine test results. Pastor ruled that the coroner’s office must preserve the samples, and if defense attorneys and prosecutors cannot agree on the request, he will schedule a hearing on the matter. After court let out, a group of Jackson supporters gathered and sang an impromptu verse that featured the lines, “Conrad Murray is a cold man,” while holding up signs that read “Justice for Michael Jackson” and “Love Unites Us, Peace Drives Us, Judgment Day 4 All.” Related Photos Michael Jackson: A Life In Photos Related Artists Michael Jackson

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