Violent crime articles
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Biden: Violent protests ‘not protected’
President Biden was sharply critical Thursday of aspects of protests that have swept across college campuses nationwide in response to the war in Gaza, condemning vandalism and trespassing even as
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Concord Man Sentenced For Hate Crimes
A North Carolina man was sentenced to 41 months in prison on federal hate crime charges in two separate incidents about a year apart.
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The "Twinkie defense": What we know about diet and crime
In 1978, Dan White murdered San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Of this, there was no doubt. White had turned himself in, then tearfully and remorsefully confessed to shooting each of the men — his former colleagues — multiple times. At White’s 1979 trial, the only question was how stiff his penalty would be. White’s lawyers ran a skillful defense during the court proceedings. They claimed that their client’s mental capacity was diminished by stress and severe...