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...didn't believe the words of Richard Parella could convict anyone." --Suspended Middlesex County Sheriff John P. McGonigle after being convicted of tax fraud. Purclla, a former deputy sheriff, was the United States District Attorney's lead witness...
...took just two hours for a Pensacola, Florida, jury to convict former minister Paul Hill of violating the new federal abortion-clinic access law by shooting an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. He was also convicted of one federal firearm charge. Hill, acting as his own attorney, had played martyr in arguing the June 29 murders of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett were justifiable -- calling no witnesses, cross-examining no one and supplying burning rhetoric in lieu of evidence. His closing statement today: "This government is unjust because it does not protect innocent life. To the extent we take...
...arrested by Harvard police Monday for breaking into students' dorms and stealing their CDs is an escaped convict from Wisconsin with an extensive criminal record, authorities said yesterday...
Reilly and Harvard's Criminal Investigations Division also said yesterday that Jackson is an escaped convict wanted by the Wisconsin Corrections Department...
...escaped convict and a teenager suspected of a cross-country murder and robbery spree were nabbed in Santa Fe when they woke up in handcuffs. State police found Lewis Gilbert, 22, and Eric Elliot, 16, sleeping under a culvert -- with two high-powered rifles, a shotgun and a pistol. The cops followed up on a tip from a motorist who had given the two a ride last night. Gilbert and Elliot, both from Newcomerstown, Ohio, are suspected of kidnapping a 79-year-old Ohio woman, burglarizing her farmhouse and stealing her car a week ago, then killing a Missouri couple...