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Crimes and Trials News

• CA man freed after murder charges dropped (AP)
  

  AP - A 24-year-old man jailed for more than three months in the murders of his mother and brother was a free man Saturday after prosecutors said they would instead charge a high school friend accused in a string of serial killings. But the previously accused man now faces an immigration hearing on whether he should be allowed to remain in the country because he told officials he was here illegally.

  
  
  
  
• Jury convicts Indiana elections chief (Reuters)
  Reuters - An Indiana jury convicted embattled Republican Secretary of State Charlie White in the early hours of Saturday on six out of seven felony charges including perjury, theft and voter fraud.
  
  
• Charges dropped against U.S. soldier in Afghan murder (Reuters)
  Reuters - The U.S. Army has dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face a court-martial in the slaying of unarmed Afghan civilians, officials from their home base near Tacoma, Washington, said on Friday.
  
  
• Army drops charges against last soldier in Afghan murder case (Reuters)
  Reuters - The U.S. Army has dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face a court-martial in the slaying of unarmed Afghan civilians, officials from their home base near Tacoma, Washington, said on Friday.
  
  
• Father: Beheading plot suspect a dedicated teacher (AP)
  AP - Nevine Aly Elshiekh is a dog lover who teaches children with developmental disabilities. She is college-educated, well-respected by her neighbors and has no criminal record, not even a speeding ticket.
  
  
• Senior Indiana official convicted of perjury, fraud (Reuters)
  Reuters - A jury early on Saturday convicted Indiana's Republican Secretary of State Charlie White on six felony counts including perjury, theft and voter fraud but cleared him on a seventh charge.
  
  
• Mother of slain actress settles suit with Spector (AP)
  AP - A lawyer says the mother of the actress Phil Spector was convicted of killing has settled her wrongful death suit against the legendary music producer.
  
  
• Alabama police shoot dead fugitive cop killer (Reuters)
  Reuters - Authorities shot and killed an escaped inmate Friday who stabbed one Mobile police officer to death and wounded a second after fleeing in a stolen police car.
  
  
• Killer of Fla. girl found in landfill gets life (AP)
  

  AP - Minutes after a man pleaded guilty to kidnapping, raping and murdering 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who was dumped in a trash bin and later found in a landfill, the little girl's twin brother addressed his sister's killer.

  
  
  
  
• DA expects to quiz Kan. gov; House speaker upset (AP)
  

  AP - A Kansas district attorney said Friday that he's likely to interview Gov. Sam Brownback as a witness during an investigation into the legality of private meetings with legislators at the governor's official residence, but the state's most powerful lawmaker criticized the prosecutor's tactics.