Tag: hearing
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Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson’s testimony postponed at House committee hearing
A highly anticipated legislative hearing began Monday but without its key witness: a Texas inmate whose execution for his daughter’s “shaken baby” death was narrowly averted last week. Robert Roberson was expected to appear before the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence in Austin after members issued a subpoena on Wednesday for him to testify…
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Robert Roberson, whose Texas execution was halted, may appear in person at legislative hearing
Robert Roberson, the condemned man whose execution was halted late Thursday because of an unprecedented legal gambit by Texas lawmakers, is expected to appear in person Monday at a legislative hearing in Austin, his legal representatives said. Roberson, who was set to become the first person in the U.S. to be executed for a “shaken…
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to make appearance at pretrial hearing on sex trafficking charges
Sean “Diddy” Combs is expected to appear Thursday afternoon before the federal judge in New York assigned to oversee his trial, which the embattled hip-hop mogul’s lawyers would like to begin next spring. Deadlines may be set for various issues related to the trial of Combs, 54, who pleaded not guilty last month to charges…
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Key revelations emerge in Coast Guard’s Titan submersible hearing
Two weeks of public testimony concluded Friday in the U.S. Coast Guard’s investigation to establish what caused the Titan submersible to implode during a deep ocean dive last year, killing all five on board. Its findings will be issued in a report that may include what the panel believes caused the incident; whether there was…
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GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to ‘hide your head in a bag’
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., repeatedly suggested a leading Arab American activist is a Hamas supporter when she testified Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes, and he told her she should hide her “head in a bag.” The activist, Maya Berry, said repeatedly that she did not support Hamas and was “disappointed”…