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January 15, 2010 | Daily Report Online

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June 25, 2010 | Daily Report Online

HOUSTON AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the multiple life sentences a truck driver received for his role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt, more than seven years after the bodies of 19 illegal immigrants were discovered in a tractor-trailer.Prosecutors had sought death sentences for Tyrone Williams on 19 counts of transporting illegal immigrants, but the 5th U.

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October 24, 2006 | National Law Journal

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, the most vilified figure from the most notorious financial scandal of the decade, was sentenced Monday to 24 years, four months in the harshest sentence yet in the case that came to symbolize corporate fraud in America.

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February 03, 2009 | Daily Report Online

GALVESTON, Texas AP - When 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers' badly decomposed remains were found inside a plastic box in October 2007, investigators promised they would do at least one thing for the toddler."That we would find the people responsible for her death and bring them to justice and we did," said Galveston County Sheriff's Sgt.

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January 28, 2009 | Daily Report Online

GALVESTON, Texas AP - Jurors wept Tuesday watching a woman describe how teaching her 2-year-old daughter proper manners turned into a daylong torture session in which the toddler was beaten with belts, dunked in cold water and flung across a room so violently that she died.Kimberly Trenor, 20, detailed the abuse in a videotaped statement played for jurors during the first day of her capital murder trial.

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August 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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January 25, 2008 | Daily Report Online

HOUSTON AP - The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that former BP PLC chairman Lord John Browne cannot be questioned without limits about his knowledge of the British oil company's deadly March 2005 Texas City refinery accident.The Supreme Court left open the possibility that Browne could be deposed under an agreement that specifies the conditions for questioning the former oil executive.

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May 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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April 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

BEAUMONT, Texas AP - A new weekly legal newspaper described as being a "propaganda sheet" for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to promote lawsuit reform is embroiled in a court fight over its journalistic integrity.Brent Coon, a personal injury attorney, accuses a reporter and an editor with the Southeast Texas Record of trying to tamper with jury selection in an asbestos-related death case he was set to try earlier this month.

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November 01, 2010 | Daily Report Online

AUSTIN, Texas AP - Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was upbeat as he entered an Austin courtroom before opening statements in his trial on charges he helped to illegally finance Texas legislative races in 2002.The once powerful but polarizing Republican said Monday he was confident and that prosecutors don't have a case against him.

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