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Arrest warrant issued despite accused man’s death

Last updated Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 5:31pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Davis County prosecutors have refused to drop a criminal case against a suspected swindler even though the man reportedly died while on a business trip to China in June.

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A Facebook photo update by Jason Valdez, seen here with Veronica Jensen, is shown on a mobile phone during a June standoff with the Ogden Police Department and Weber County Sheriff’s Office. (ANTHONY SOUFFLE/Standard-Examiner)

Public defender of suspect in Ogden standoff needs county funds for expert witnesses

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, October 14, 2011 - 5:44am

OGDEN -- Jason Valdez's public defender will be hiring an expert, possibly more than one, as part of the defense for charges of kidnapping and attempted murder -- which revisits the potential conflict of interest in Weber County of having prosecutors influence the funding of defense attorneys.

Valdez is charged in the 16-hour SWAT standoff that began June 18 in an Ogden motel, an event Valdez posted about on his Facebook page throughout.

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Change of plea hearing set in Utah pesticide case

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 8:08am

SALT LAKE CITY — Federal prosecutors say a change of plea hearing is set for a pest extermination company and one of its former employees suspected in the misapplication of a pesticide that may have contributed to the deaths of two young girls.

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(SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/The Associated Press) This is a Monday, July 11, 2011 file photo of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during a trial hearing at the Pecherskiy District Court in Kiev. The judge in the abuse-of-office trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko gave strong indication she would be found guilty Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 saying in his summary that she caused major losses to the national gas company.

Ukraine’s Tymoshenko sentenced to 7 years in jail

Maria Danilova The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 7:40am

KIEV, Ukraine — Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday was found guilty of abuse of office and sentenced to seven years in jail, in a trial widely condemned in the West as politically motivated.

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(JERRY LEMENU/The Associated Press) In this courtroom drawing, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab appears in U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds’ courtroom in Detroit, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. Jury selection in the trial of the Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear got under way in Detroit with a dozen people accepted into the jury pool and four excused. The government alleges Abdulmutallab says he wanted to become a martyr when he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Amsterdam on Christmas 2009.

Trial starts in Detroit in airline attack case

Ed White The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 7:34am

DETROIT — The man accused of trying to destroy an airliner on behalf of al-Qaida has entered a Detroit courtroom for the first day of trial.

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Prosecutors show lineup of Jackson doctor's drugs

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 11:39am

LOS ANGELES -- The bottles of medicine were lined up in two jagged rows on the edge of the prosecution table at the end of the seventh day of the trial against the doctor charged in connection with Michael Jackson's death.

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'I am asleep' Jackson heard in slurring audio

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 3:13pm

LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors played a recording Wednesday in which Michael Jackson is heard discussing his plans to build a hospital for children in a rambling, slurred conversation with the doctor charged in his death roughly six weeks before the entertainer died.

The recording was significantly longer than the clip played for jurors in opening statements last week. It ends ominously, with defendant Dr. Conrad Murray heard asking Jackson whether he was OK after his voice trailed off.

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Jackson's doctor lied about drug orders, pharmacist testifies

Harriet Ryan, Victoria Kim Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 5:49pm

LOS ANGELES -- A Las Vegas pharmacist testified Tuesday that he shipped large amounts of propofol to Michael Jackson's personal physician in the months leading up to the singer's death.

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(IRFAN KHAN/The Associated Press) In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician, appears in Los Angeles Superior Court where Murray pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s 2009 death. Inside the compact, wood-paneled courtroom that will soon host the trial of Michael Jackson’s personal physician, many of the tabloid-worthy elements of the singer’s life will go unspoken.

Jury to get overview of case against Jackson doc

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 9:41am

LOS ANGELES — The trial of the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death opens Tuesday with a bit of star power and the one thing the King of Pop enjoyed throughout his life — a worldwide audience.

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Guantanamo proceedings will be transmitted to U.S.

Carol Rosenberg The Miami Herald

Last updated Monday, September 26, 2011 - 9:51am

The Obama administration's choice to run prosecutions at the Guantanamo war crimes court is pledging a new era of transparency from the remote base, including the nearly simultaneous broadcast of the proceedings to the United States, where reporters and families of victims would be able to view them.

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(Courtesy photo) Rear Adm. David B. Woods, an Ogden native, is tasked with preparing Guantanamo bay for the capital murder trials of five alleged conspirators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.

Ogden native preparing Guantanamo Bay for 9/11 trials

Carol Rosenberg McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 11:34pm

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- In the few weeks since Rear Adm. David B. Woods took charge here, he has looked in on the men accused of killing two of his Naval Academy classmates, walked the camps where President Barack Obama's closure order has faded in the sun and presided over a somber ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of America's 21st-century Day of Infamy.

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MacKay jury to weigh if defendant was doc or drug dealer

Lynn DeBruin The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 8:54am

SALT LAKE CITY — A jury began deliberating Wednesday in a federal case against a Brigham City doctor charged with running a massive pill mill operation, illegally prescribing painkillers to thousands of patients without evaluating their conditions.

Prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City argued that Dewey C. MacKay turned from doctor to drug dealer to pad his wallet after he no longer could work as an orthopedic surgeon because of health issues. MacKay’s defense lawyers however suggested the case against their client was flimsy.

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Change of plea hearing set in Provo arson case

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Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 6:44am

SALT LAKE CITY — A Provo woman accused of starting an apartment fire that killed two people and injured a third is expected to enter a plea to reduced charges.

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U of U pain expert says Brigham City doctor got in a 'rut'

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 11:28pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A pain expert took the stand Wednesday to say Dewey MacKay's prescribing of narcotic painkillers too often lacked any legitimate medical purpose.

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Hunt for jurors resumes in Jackson doctor case

Linda Deutsch, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 2:15pm

LOS ANGELES -- A new group of 140 prospective jurors reported for duty Thursday in the case of Michael Jackson's doctor, and all them indicated they know about the involuntary manslaughter case against him.

Panelists who said they can serve on a two-month trial are filling out questionnaires. Those who express strong opinions about Dr. Conrad Murray's guilt or innocence could be dismissed for cause before they reach the jury box.

Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor, who has already screened 340 prospects and cleared 147 of those for availability, summoned the third panel of potential jurors to make sure there will be enough people to choose from when in-depth questioning begins next month. Ultimately, 12 jurors and six alternates will be chosen.

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