ALBANY — New York State Police can impound a borrowed car when the driver is arrested at a traffic stop instead of letting a licensed passenger drive it away, New York’s top court ruled Monday The New York Court of ...

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NEW YORK — A federal appeals court seemed supportive of a judge’s decision to quadruple the prison sentence of a lawyer in a terrorism case to 10 years after she made public statements. Judges of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court ...

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MIAMI — A federal appeals court has thrown out the 17-year prison sentence imposed on convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the sentence imposed by ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has turned away the latest attempt by actor Wesley Snipes to get his conviction and prison sentence on tax charges overturned. The high court refused Monday to hear an appeal from Snipes ...

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They tried to make Alejandra Tapia go to rehab — by giving her an extra-long sentence so she could complete a prison program. Now it’s up to the U.S. Supreme Court to either back the lower court’s ruling, or say “no, no, no.”

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A New Jersey appeals court has rejected a 15-year prison sentence for a man convicted of biting off a police officer's fingertip. Rafael Pichardo was convicted of aggravated assault ...

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