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Tuesday September 7, 2010
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Crime & Courts NewsAZ: Justice Department sues Arizona sheriff ArpaioThe Justice Department sued Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County, on Thursday, saying his office has repeatedly declined to hand over documents to federal investigators examining whether his aggressive tactics against illegal immigrants have violated their civil rights.
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CA: Prop 8 backers lose state rulingA state appeals court has denied a conservative legal group's request that it force Attorney General Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to defend Proposition 8 in federal court.
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CT: DCF defends actions in Torrington child endangerment caseThe Department of Children and Families announced Thursday -- via press release! -- that there was really no problem at all with its handling of a child endangerment case in Torrington in July where the agency placed police on hold for 30 minutes in the middle of the night.
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CT: Grand Jury investigating relationship between Waterbury defense attorney and State's Attorney John ConnellyFBI agents have been interviewing former and current clients of prominent Waterbury defense attorney Martin Minnella about fees they paid and whether Minnella made promises that he could "take care" of their cases because of his close relationship with State's Attorney John Connelly.
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CT: Former state representative from Tolland arrestedTOLLAND, Conn. -- A former state representative from Tolland who works as a seventh-grade teacher at Tolland Middle School has been charged with inappropriately touching young girls, state police said.
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GA: Deal's lawyer -- There is no grand jury investigationThe Nathan Deal campaign wastes little time combating suggestions that the former U.S. congressman is the target of any investigation.
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GA: GBI database reaches 2,000 hitsThe Georgia Bureau of Investigation's DNA database has reached more than 2,000 hits to unsolved cases.
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HI: Senate confirms Recktenwald as new high court chief justiceGov. Linda Lingle's appointment of Associate Justice Mark Recktenwald as chief justice sailed through Senate confirmation yesterday, but she won't get to name his replacement on the five-member Hawaii Supreme Court.
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IA: Iowa court rejects review of Charles City's teen's trialCHARLES CITY, Iowa -- The Iowa Supreme Court won't review the conviction of a Charles City teen convicted in June on charges of first-degree murder and sexual abuse.
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IL: Prison chief is victim of political gamesAs of Thursday, we really do have an early release scandal in Illinois' prison system.
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IL: What's Brady's plan?The fiasco known as MGT Push has finally cost the state's prisons chief his job, and it may yet do the same to Gov. Pat Quinn.
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IL: Brady blasts Ill. prison chief as he steps downRepublican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady is blasting Gov. Pat Quinn for letting his embattled prisons chief resign without a reprimand.
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IL: Illinois AG suing firm for identity protection chargesIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Thursday she is suing a California company for charging consumers for identity protection services that they never requested.
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IL: Department of Corrections chief heads back to OhioCHICAGO -- Illinois' prison chief, who became a political liability to Gov. Pat Quinn during an election year because of a secret prisoner release program he oversaw, is stepping down, the governor said Thursday.
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IL: Quinn -- Prisons chief Michael Randle wasn't forced outGov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that he did not force his embattled corrections chief to resign over a botched prisoner early release program and defended Michael Randle's job performance during his short time in Illinois.
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KS: Court process draws concernsA spokeswoman says U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, the Republican nominee for governor, has concerns about how justices for the Kansas Supreme Court are selected.
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LA: Race factor emerges in court filings on NOPD actions after Hurricane KatrinaFederal prosecutors claim in new court documents that two of the NOPD officers accused in the alleged police shooting death of Henry Glover in the days after Hurricane Katrina and a subsequent cover-up were involved in unrelated, racially tinged incidents shortly before Glover was killed.
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MA: SJC backs doctor on patient confidentialityInvestigations of potential physician misconduct do not trump the law protecting confidentiality between psychotherapists and patients, the state's highest court ruled yesterday, siding with a doctor who defied a subpoena for patient treatment records despite concerns he might be overprescribing pain medication.
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MD: Discovery Channel hostage-taker hated programmingSILVER SPRING, Md. — A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows such as "Kate Plus 8" because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.
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ME: Saufley fears effect of cuts on courtsSaying state courts already are understaffed and underfunded, Chief Justice Leigh Saufley says the courts can identify only $85,000 in savings out of a target of nearly $494,000 in cuts for the remainder of this budget year.
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