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Prospective jurors in the trial of hated pharmaceutical boss Martin Shkreli trampled over the long-established principle of jury impartiality in court transcripts which show juror selection going quickly awry. Mr Shkreli became the object of widespread ire after his company acquired the drug Darapri

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A Las Vegas lawyer has experienced a streak of bad luck after being disbarred and now arrested over separate alleged frauds. Easton K. Harris was disbarred in June over more than 100 professional conduct violations involving at least 23 clients, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

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A Syrian refugee has been convicted in Germany of seeking to defraud terror group Islamic State to the tune of €180,000. Hasan A., a 39-year-old hairdresser from Damascus, now faces two years in jail for trying to persuade IS operatives to transfer him money for explosives which he had no intentio

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Police have been left baffled after receiving reports that someone apparently broke into an apartment and cleaned it. The apartment's resident contacted police after coming home from a trip to find the entire apartment had been cleaned.

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A lawyer has been jailed after making death threats to a fellow lawyer who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator. The long-running case, focussed on an incident in 2014, began in 2015 and has finally been concluded.

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A judge who wore a pro-Trump "Make America Great Again" hat on the bench is facing investigation after 81 complaints were lodged. Judge Bernd Zabel, a judge in Ontario, Canada, wore the cap while presiding on 9 November 2016, one day after Donald Trump's surprise election as President of the United

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A police officer who used the force helicopter to spy on people having sex has been jailed for a year. Over the course of the three-week trial, Sheffield Crown Court heard that 51-year-old Adrian Pogmore was "a swinging and sex-obsessed air observer".

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Over 1,500 pints of prison hooch are confiscated in Irish prisons every year, new figures have revealed. Almost 6,500 pints of homemade alcohol - produced by inmates using water, sugar, fruit and bread - have been seized over the past four years, with nearly 875 pints confiscated last year.

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A judge rehearsed an old legal joke as she sentenced a lawyer to a year in jail for forging the signatures of judges. Jose Camacho forged more than 100 judicial signatures in financial settlement cases, though strangely he never actually benefited from the fraud.

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Pictured: Not the couple in question A new bride allegedly pulled a gun from under her wedding dress to threaten her new husband just hours after they were married.

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Far-right Facebook users have been left red-faced after mistaking a photo of empty bus seats for burka-clad women. The photo was posted to a 13,000-member Facebook group with the caption: "What do people think about this?"

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A dozen prisoners successfully tricked a security guard into letting them escape by smearing a food spread on doors in the prison. All but one are now back behind bars after a cunning plot which saw them smear peanut butter from prison sandwiches over door numbers.

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A man has been jailed for possessing a disguised stun gun that he claims he only ever used on himself. Allan Turnbull, 29, was charged with firearms offences after police raided his house and discovered a stun gun disguised as a torch.

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Two women allegedly smuggling four kilograms of gold jewellery in their underwear were caught out by an airport security scanner. The pair, aged 41 and 59, were stopped and questioned by customs officials in Mumbai airport after suspicions were aroused around the purpose of their trip.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq0TNGk43No Two people suspected of donning Donald Trump masks to steal from cash machines have been arrested.

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