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The father of "Little Pumpkin" the little New Zealand girl abandoned on a Melbourne, Australia, train station last year, who became a world celebrity when the depth of her father's monsterous acts were revealed, is now having his day in court and the opportunity to justify his actions. The following is a news report of the commencement and first day of his deposition hearing to decide if he has a case to answer:

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Marion “Suge” Knight, founder of Death Row Records, was put in jail on Wednesday on assault and drug charges after being accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife near the Las Vegas Strip. He post $19,000 bail and was scheduled to be released from jail on later in the day on Wednesday with a promise to appear in Las Vegas Justice Court on September 26th.

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The rapper DMX has been arrested in Miami on a warrant for not attending a Phoenix, Arizona court hearing. His lawyer says that he checked into a Miami hospital on the day that he was suppose to go court in Phoenix and was planning on entering a rehab facility afterwards. A judge in Phoenix issued the warrant on Tuesday after he didn’t appear for a pretrial conference on his four counts on possessing drug paraphernalia and one count of possession of marijuana.

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The rapper 50 Cent is able to take his son on vacation after passing a court-ordered drug test. He was in a Long Island courtroom on Thursday to ask a judge for permission to take his 11 year old son, Marquise, on a trip scheduled for next month. A drug test was ordered and came back clean.

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The rapper Young Jeezy was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and speeding after he was pulled over on Interstate 85 in his Corvette in Atlanta at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday. He was also charged with driving with no proof of insurance or license plate, having an open container, and reckless driving. He was released from the Atlanta City Detention Center a few hours after being arrested on a $4,100 bond. He is scheduled to go to court on July 17th.

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The singer R. Kelly has been acquitted by the jury of all 14 charges against him after less than a day of deliberations in his child pornography case. The prosecutors against him tried to say that a video tape that was mailed to the Chicago Sun-Times in 2002 was of him having sex with a girl that was as young as 13 years old at the time that the tape was made. R. Kelly and the girl, who is now 23, both denied in court that it was either of them on the tape. Most of the evidence against him was questionable in court so there was not enough evidence for him to be sentenced.

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Yesterday, she missed a deposition because she was 'sick'. This morning at 2 A.M., she was taped driving around. WTH?

Don't worry. The court date was to settle some unimportant items like child custody issues.

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I was listening to the news the other day and they were mentioning how Justice Kennedy is the "swing vote" for certain cases, just as Justice O'Connor was. Then I got to thinking and realized the concept of a swing vote is a scary perspective in our highest court. Here's why.

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Texas laws allow the killing of a fetus to be prosecuted as murder, regardless of the fetus' stage of development, but they do not apply to abortions, the state's highest criminal court has ruled.

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I think one of the reasons why everybody hates jury duty is that it's an unfamiliar experience. Nobody likes to go into a new experience blind, especially in an official setting. Well, I just finished out my time in the jury pool for civil court, and it was no big deal. This is coming from a person who could probably get Rx for a slew of anxiety attack meds.

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Well, I am reading the Yahoo news page today. The story is about Michael Vick and his court hearing yesterday, and low and behold, the race card was played in this story. Why??? I should have seen it coming, but, I for the life of me, cannot understand why this happens everytime.

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RETURN TO THE SCENE : Paris in Jail ?
What Paris Can Expect Behind Bars.

She was sentenced Friday to 45 days at the Century Regional Detention Center, Los Angeles County's jailhouse for women just south of downtown in Lynwood.

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RETURN TO THE SCENE Paris violated term

LOS ANGELES -- Paris Hilton should be jailed for 45 days for violating terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction, city prosecutors say.

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See the witness on the stand
Will he tell the truth
Or testify with slight of hand
Bending the truth as far as he can?

Ok he thinks he can lie I see
Give him a ride while he’s still happy
While he’s acting quite snappy

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Last Friday a Federal Inmate Williams Sablan was spared execution for the murder of his cellmate. Sablan killed his cellmate then disemboweled him and used the entrails to taunt correctional officers.

Apparently a jury could not unanimously agree to execute Mr. Sablan. However he will be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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