Lawyer: Kidnap and murder convict of young French Jew appeals sentence

September 28th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Even as Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu Monday after assuring the UN General Assembly that his government was "fully committed to the protection and promotion of human rights", the lawyer of country's best known prisoner said it had ignored a UN call about Charles Sobhraj. The 65-year-old Sobhraj, who is serving a life term in Nepal's most tightly guarded prison for the murder of an American tourist in 1975, had appealed to the UN Human Rights Committee last year, saying there had been an appalling miscarriage of justice in his case.

September 22nd, 2009 Death sentence affirmed in Dru Sjodin kidnap caseMINNEAPOLIS — A federal appeals court has affirmed the death sentence for a convicted sex offender who kidnapped and killed a college student about six months after being released from prison. In an opinion released Tuesday, the 8th U.S.

August 20th, 2009 Detroit boy, 12, faces life murder charge in deathDETROIT — Authorities say a 12-year-old Detroit boy accused of shooting a 24-year-old woman to death during a street robbery could face an adult murder sentence of life in prison without parole if he's convicted. According to police, Demarco Harris shot and killed Trisha Babcock, of Davison, just after midnight on Aug.

August 7th, 2009 Appeals court in Va. upholds sniper convictionRICHMOND, Va.

August 6th, 2009 Pa. convict charged with robbing same bankUPPER TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A Pennsylvania man who served nearly six years in prison for robbing a southern New Jersey bank has been arrested in a recent robbery of the same bank.

July 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A murder convict serving life imprisonment in the Lucknow jail committed suicide by hanging himself in the prison premises Friday, police said. Forty-five-year old Badri Prasad Tiwari was lodged in the Lucknow Model Jail since 2002 after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his step-mother.

July 3rd, 2009 Ruling that overturned NJ murder conviction standsPHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court will not reconsider its ruling that overturned a murder conviction. In a decision announced Thursday, the 3rd U.S.

June 23rd, 2009 Mexico refuses to send French kidnap convict homeMEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Monday that a Frenchwoman convicted of kidnapping will have to serve her 60-year sentence in Mexico, rejecting appeals by France to send her home. Calderon said his government decided against returning Florence Cassez because France wouldn't guarantee that she would serve the full sentence.

June 15th, 2009 NC man enters plea in death of son tied to treeTARBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina man whose 13-year-old son died after being tied to a tree overnight has entered a plea to second-degree murder in which he acknowledges prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him.

June 2nd, 2009 Iraqi gets life sentence for Briton's kidnap deathBAGHDAD — An Iraqi man accused in the 2004 kidnapping and slaying of British aid worker Margaret Hassan has been sentenced to life in prison. The judge convicted and handed down the sentence against Ali Lutfi al-Rawi Tuesday in an Iraqi court in Baghdad.

May 11th, 2009 US reporter leaves jail in Iran, lawyer saysTEHRAN, Iran — A lawyer for a U.S. journalist jailed in Iran says she has been freed from prison after an appeals court suspended her eight-year jail sentence.

April 29th, 2009 Trial of suspects in death of French Jew opensPARIS — The presumed leader of a group of 27 young people charged with participating in the torture and killing of a young French Jew took his seat in juvenile court Wednesday with the defiant declaration, "Allah will be victorious." The 23-year-old victim, Ilan Halimi was found naked, handcuffed and covered with burn marks near railroad tracks in the Essonne region south of Paris on Feb. 13, 2006. He died on the way to the hospital after being held captive for more than three weeks.

April 29th, 2009 27 suspected in death of French Jew go on trialPARIS — The presumed leader of a group of 27 young people charged with participating in the torture and killing of a young French Jew took his seat in juvenile court Wednesday with the defiant declaration, "Allah will be victorious." The 23-year-old victim, Ilan Halimi, was found naked, handcuffed and covered with burn marks near railroad tracks in the Essonne region south of Paris on Feb. 13, 2006. He died on the way to the hospital after being held captive for more than three weeks.

April 28th, 2009 Lawyer: Murder charge against Mich mom excessiveFLINT, Mich. — A lawyer for a Michigan woman accused of killing her 9-year-old quadriplegic adopted daughter says a murder charge seems excessive.

April 22nd, 2009 Lawyer asks Marines to drop Iraq murder chargeCAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — A Marine's lawyer says the military will decide as early Friday whether to drop charges that his client murdered an unarmed detainee in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.