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Prosecutors in the sexual molesting trial of Michael Jackson on Friday painted a picture of him riffling through dirty magazines and showing the pictures to two young boys. The prosecution repeatedly projected onto a large screen images of sexually explicit periodicals like Hustler’s Barely Legal Hardcore and had fingerprint experts identify on their glossy pages […]

1990 Terri Schiavo suffers brain damage during cardiac arrest, a result of a potassium imbalance that may have been caused by her suspected bulimia. She emerges from her coma but does not regain consciousness. A Florida court appoints her husband Michael guardian.•1992 Michael sues Terri’s doctor and in November wins $750,000 for her and $300,000

The attorney for two former altar boys who claim a Roman Catholic priest molested them in Antioch asked a jury Tuesday to impose $27 million in damages, a figure one church attorney said was unwarranted and “pulled out of the air.” The Rev. Robert Ponciroli victimized Tom Thatcher, 33, and his brother Bob, 34, two

Jury selection for former Bank of America broker Theodore Sihpol III is set to begin today in Manhattan Supreme Court. In a 40-count indictment, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, as part of his office’s ongoing efforts to curb alleged abuses in the mutual fund industry, charged Sihpol for late-trading by helping hedge fund Canary Capital Partners

A military judge Wednesday threw out Pfc. Lynndie England’s guilty plea to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, saying that he was not convinced that she knew that her actions were wrong at the time. Col. James Pohl entered a plea of not guilty for England to a charge of conspiring with Pvt. Charles Graner Jr.

Though few U.S. law firms stock vegemite or serve flat white coffee in their cafeterias, they have embraced Australian lawyers in almost every other way. They may soon embrace many more. On Wednesday, Congress passed legislation approving a separate visa category for Australian professionals. The E-3 visa program provides the country with 10,500 slots annually,

Jay Leno, the host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” testified today that the young accuser in the Michael Jackson child molesting trial called him several times to say he was a big fan of the talk show host, but that he never asked him for any money. Mr. Leno’s testimony did not bolster the strategy

Lawyers in Michael Jackson’s child abuse trial are making their closing arguments as the long-running trial inches towards a conclusion. Prosecution and defence teams will have one final say, after trial judge Rodney Melville spent Wednesday issuing instructions to jurors. The jury may start deliberations on Friday into claims the singer abused a 13-year-old cancer