BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman charged with conspiracy and murder in connection with the deaths of her two children and her new husband’s late wife will no longer face the death penalty, a judge ruled Tuesday. Lori Vallow Daybell ...

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By Paul Mark Sandler BridgeTower Media Newswires The year is 4300. Defendants on appeal are convicted of murder, sentenced to hang. They seek reversal from the Supreme Court of Newgarth. (“The Case of the Speluncean Explorers,” Lon Fuller, Vol. 62, ...

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CLINTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has been arrested in connection with a murder case dating back to 2012, authorities said.  News outlets reported the Sampson County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Wednesday that Glen Allen ...

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Prosecutors may be able to move ahead with child abuse charges that were brought against a Henderson County man after his conviction for attempted murder was overturned on appeal because of a faulty indictment.  The North Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ...

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury in North Carolina has indicted a man who admitted to an innocence panel that he broke into a woman’s house 36 years ago and killed her, adding that the man sent to prison ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Murder and robbery charges against a North Carolina man convicted of killing his co-worker should have been dismissed because there was insufficient evidence at trial to implicate him, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. David Myron ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina Superior Court judge put a small-town newspaper editor behind bars last month after one of his reporters used an audio recorder for note-taking purposes at a murder trial — a punishment the paper and ...

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a North Carolina man who is accused of fatally stabbing a woman in 2011 is still not competent to stand trial for murder The Winston-Salem Journal reported Monday that Cornelius Tucker ...

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A father and daughter who were convicted of second-degree murder in the beating death of the daughter’s husband are entitled to a new trial because the trial court didn’t allow into evidence statements from the husband’s children about his violent ...

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  A charge of conspiracy to commit attempted first-degree murder is not an illogical impossibility, as one Johnston County defendant had argued, because an intent to fail to commit the murder is not an essential element of the crime, a ...

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