See below for live tweets from the courtroom. Following closing arguments Wednesday, the jury in the murder trial of former Lululemon yoga store worker Brittany Norwood began deliberations. Read full article > >

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LOS ANGELES — First, prosecutors showed a photo of Michael Jackson’s pale and lifeless body lying on a gurney. Then, they played a recording of his voice, just weeks before his death. Slow and slurred, his words echoed Tuesday through a Los Angeles courtroom at the start of the trial of the doctor accused of killing him. As a worldwide audience watched on TV and Jackson’s family looked on from inside the courtroom, a drugged Jackson said: Read full article > >

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Jackson’s voice, recorded before death, echoes through LA court as trial of his doctor starts

A D.C. Superior Court jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether Roderick Ridley fatally stabbed his former girlfriend, Tiffany Gates, in 2008. However, the jury found Ridley guilty of burglary, carrying a concealed weapon and multiple counts of obstruction of justice and making threats. Despite the lack of a murder conviction, Judge Gerald Fisher sentenced Ridley to 74 1 / 2 years in prison in connection with Gates’s slaying, saying he thinks that Ridley, 34, stabbed his former girlfriend. Fisher called the case one of the most horrible he had heard in his courtroom. Read full article > >

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D.C. man gets 741 / 2 years in connection with fatal stabbing of ex-girlfriend

Former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic made his first appearance before the Hague war crimes tribunal, while relatives of victims of the Bosnian war gathered outside the courtroom. Initially he asked the judge not to read the charges out loud, but…

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Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer are not lawyers. But they are about to play a pair on TV. In the series “Franklin & Bash,” which debuts June 1 on TNT, Gosselaar (“ NYPD Blue ,” “ Saved by the Bell ”) and Meyer (“ Clueless ,” “ Road Trip ”) play best friends and L.A. lawyers who often resort to unconventional tactics in the courtroom. But how much do they know about law? During a visit to Washington, Gosselaar, 37, and Meyer, also 37, participated in a Pop Culture Bar Exam, a quiz based on notable law-related moments from film, TV and pop music. Read full article > >

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Gosselaar and Meyer aren’t entirely ‘Clueless’

A Southeast Washington man had sex with his 17-year-old daughter and later stabbed her 15 times before dumping her body in a trash bin, federal prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutors Monday charged Rodney J. McIntyre, 45, with first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of Ebony Franklin, whose body was found in an alley behind the 1000 block of Fairmont Street in Columbia Heights on Nov. 28. Police arrested McIntyre on Saturday. On Monday in D.C. Superior Court, as Assistant U.S. Attorney Jocelyn Ballan­tine detailed how McIntyre’s semen was found in the girl’s body, several of her friends and family members who took up about four rows in the courtroom cried out before rushing out of the room. Read full article > >

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CHICAGO — The life of David Coleman Headley , a self-confessed American terrorist and Pakistani spy, has moved from soap opera to crime story to espionage thriller. Monday begins the most revealing chapter yet: the courtroom drama. Headley, a Pakistani American businessman and former informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, will be the star witness against Tahawwur Rana of Chicago, his boyhood friend and alleged accomplice in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Opening arguments are set for Monday in a trial that has drawn international attention because Headley’s testimony could reinforce allegations that Pakistan plays a double game in the terrorism fight. Read full article > >

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David Headley’s testimony could reinforce suspicions about Pakistan’s terrorism ties

A 25-year-old Montgomery County man was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday for getting drunk, roaring down Rockville Pike at 76 mph at 3 a.m., slamming into two friends trying to cross the road and killing them both. More than 300 people packed the courtroom, with 50 of them forced to stand along the sides. Family members of the two victims — Adam J. Hosinski and Rory J. Weichbrod, both 26 — leaned their heads on each other’s shoulders and wrapped their arms around one another, as did relatives of the driver. Read full article > >

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While witness after witness described graphically