Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:00:15 +0100 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review the murder conviction of legendary music producer Phil Spector, turning down an appeal by his attorney arguing his constitutional rights had been violated at his trial. The justices without any comment let stand a ruling by a California appeals court that upheld the second-degree murder conviction of Spector for the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in his suburban Los Angeles home. ... (Source: Reuters)
Facebook 'defriending' led to double murder in Tennessee
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:00:15 +0100 As reported by Reuters this week, 36-year-old Billy Payne Jr. and his 23-year-old girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, were both murdered after removing and blocking a woman previously on their Facebook friend’s list named Jenelle Potter. The parents of an 8-month-old baby boy named Tyler where allegedly shot and killed within their own home by Marvin Enoch “Buddy” Potter Jr., the 60-year-old father of the blocked woman, as well as 38-year-old Jamie Lynn Curd who has a romantic interest in Jenelle Potter. ... (Source: Digital Trends)
Mafioso and murderer tackle Shakespeare in new film
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:10:09 +0100 BERLIN (Reuters) - Drug dealers, a Mafioso and a murderer are cast in the roles of Caesar, Brutus, Cassius and others in "Caesar Must Die," a docu-drama about inmates at a tough Italian prison who take on a Shakespeare tragedy. The movie, which has its world premiere at the Berlin film festival on Saturday, was shot at the Rebibbia prison on the outskirts of Rome, some of it in the high security wing. ... (Source: Reuters)
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:20:12 +0100 A feud which started on Facebook ended with the early-morning slaying of a young Tennessee couple, found shot in the head with their sobbing baby still clutched in her dead mother's arms, police said. (Source: AFP)
Ex-TV producer sent to Mexico to face murder charge
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:10:12 +0100 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former producer of the reality TV show "Survivor" was extradited to Mexico on Wednesday to stand trial for the 2010 murder of his wife in the resort town of Cancun, attorneys in the case said. Bruce Beresford-Redman is charged in Mexico with the brutal killing of his wife of 11 years, Monica Burgos, whose naked and beaten body was found in a sewer at a Cancun hotel in April 2010 three days after he reported her missing. Mexican prosecutors allege that Beresford-Redman dumped his wife's body after a violent fight and fled to the United States. ... (Source: Reuters)
Zoom
