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The verdicts are in the Anna Nicole Smith Trial.
The former Playboy Playmate’s lawyer/boyfriend Howard K. Stern, 41, was convicted Thursday of two counts of conspiracy after a jury ruled that he provided meds that ultimately killed the tragic blonde. He was acquitted of seven other charges. Also convicted was Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, Anna Nicole’s psychiatrist, who was found guilty on conspiracy charges.



The outcome was more favorable Dr. Sandeep Kapoor was acquitted on all six counts against him, including two conspiracy charges.
Smith used multiple names to obtain drugs during the last years of her life. She died in a hotel room in South Florida in Feb. 2007, she was 39.
A jury of six men and six women deliberated for 58 hours over 13 days before reaching the verdicts.
Sentencing has been scheduled for Jan. 6.

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It all started with the DPS MMS Clip which showed a DPS RK Puram School Girl in 3gp format video clip. Some one on eBay provided the DPS MMS Download for a fee. People downloaded this video clip and circulated it around and soon the DPS Dhamaka video clip was on every teenager’s computer and mobile phones.

Sherlyn Chopra MMS : Sherlyn Chopra is Hot and Controversial Babe of Bollywood. Her statements create controversies and grow the TRPs of Reality Shows. I remember her statement in Bindass Channel where she said to anchor "I don't have p*nty inside" and the channel publicized it to grow the TRP for the show. Sherlyn Chopra's MMS is very popular on the internet as Mona Chopra's MMS Scandal. Sherlyn Chopra's boldness still makes her No.1 Bollywood Hot Search Queen on the internet.






Riya Sen MMS : Riya Sen is the Sexiest Babe of Bollywood. She well known not because of her acting skills but by her mother's name Munmun Sen and her exposing hot photoshoots. We are talking about her MMS Scandal with her ex-boyfriend Ashmit Patel(Amisha Patels Brother). After 2005 she couldn't grow her popularity index on the internet :(






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Tamanna Roadies Winner : Tamanna Roadies 5 participant and so called Girl friend of Roadies 5 winner Nauman. Sex tape helped her to reveal free publicity. The sex tape captures a girl having a resemblance to the popular "MTV Roadies" contestant. It has been proven it is not real Tamanna MMS.






Sakshi Pradhan MMS Splitsvilla : Controversial Babe Sakshi Pradhan is believed to be part of an MMS Clip which at present is making sensation at all over on internet. It has not been confirmed whether the girl is real Sakshi Pradhan or its all fake, but people all over internet are forwarding the so called Sakshi Pradhan MMS video to their friends.






A 23-year old MBA student of Noida is another victim of Noida MMS Sex Scandal. She was filmed by her boyfriend when she was stripping off his clothes on music. Her boyfriend circulated the MMS because she refused to marry him.

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We’ve all watched episodes of those popular TV shows about crime scene investigation. They take place in various cities and the investigators are always glamorous and “dressed to kill.” We do see them working in the lab, yet many times we see them actually taking down the suspects with their own gun. Reality? Maybe, but crime scene investigation is exactly as the name implies—investigation. If you’ve ever wondered how to become a crime scene investigator, even if you don’t have a designer suit, you will need training on using these Top 10 technologies to catch criminals.
1. Facial Recognition Software
An investigator no longer has to follow his nose – he can use a photo of yours. You may think you can blend in with the crowd but your face won’t lie. So go ahead … shave your beard and dye your hair black. When facial recognition software compares your features to a database, you’ll have to face the music. Better to keep your nose clean.


2. Handheld Spectrometer
Flushing your stash won’t help … this handheld spectrometer can detect illegal drug residues that are completely invisible to the naked eye.  Also, that residue on your shoes, yes that brown stuff, this technology can be used to tell an investigator where you’ve been.  Better contact a lawyer!

3. Florescent Dye Solution
Florescent colors aren’t just a fashion statement lost to the 80’s.  Even the tiniest blood spatter is visible using florescent dye, and a detailed analysis can reveal the type of weapon, how the wound was inflicted, and even whether the criminal was right or left handed.

4. New processing techniques for latent prints
Don’t smudge that smudge!  Investigators itching to retrieve a fingerprint, but hesitant to disturb material that could be subjected to DNA analysis, may soon be able to use a non-contact retrieval technique.

5. Portable Laser
How many people can brag that they carry a portable laser to work? Now smaller, lighter, and more powerful than ever, investigators can use this high-tech tool to find more trace evidence and process crime scenes faster, and we all know that time is of the essence in crime fighting. Nothing short of amazing, even a miniscule piece of a nearly-invisible blond hair found using laser technology could lead to successful prosecution using DNA amplification.

6. Electrostatic Dust Print Lifter
Burglars don’t rock gloves as a fashion statement … they know fingerprints don’t just show up on doorknobs and glass. With electrostatic lifting kits, dust becomes electrically charged to reveal prints on everything from carpet to rough surfaces such as wood. Doesn’t that just make your hair stand up on end?

7. 3D Scanning
Tediously collecting, measuring, and preserving evidence and bloodstains covering multiple surfaces can be incredibly time consuming, just ask Dexter! Luckily, 3D scanning allows investigators to process crime scenes in a fraction of the time – and with more measurements. Scanned evidence can be analyzed immediately on a laptop at the scene.

8. Fingerprint Database
In a split second a fingerprint can pull up not just a name and photo, but height, weight, hair color … even scars, tattoos, and aliases. Did you know Billy the Kid’s real name was Henry McCarty? In a bank of over 50 million prints, it’s virtually impossible to slip through the cracks.

9. DNA Database
There’s no arguing with DNA. Now that the Combined DNA Index System computer database allows all levels of law enforcement to search your genetic code against known criminal offenders, the shadow of a doubt has become less than a sliver. DNA talks so crooks don’t walk!

10. Firearm Database
Like human faces, bullets have unique characteristics. When fired, they’re marked with unique patterns by the firearm. Comparing photographed markings in a database, firearms examiners can now link guns to both current and future crimes.


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1. Electric chairs blast people with anywhere between 500 and 2000 volts. In comparison, the standard US electrical outlet is 110 to 120 volts. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

2. Execution by shooting is the most common method of execution in the world. Only three US states still allow execution by firing squad: Idaho, Oklahoma, and Utah. Dummy rounds are used so that the firing squad members do not know whether they fired the lethal shot.

3. Beheading and crucifixion are still a common form of execution in Saudi Arabia, while stoning is still practiced in Iran. During stoning the individual is buried up to the chest is soil. If they are able to escape they are to be freed according to Islamic law.

4. Lethal injections usually involves 3 drugs: Sodium thiopental induces a deep sleep, Pancuronium bromide paralyzes the diaphragm and lungs, and Potassium chloride (not used in all states) stops the heart. Texas has banned the use of pancuronium bromide on animals as it has the potential to mask pain.

5. The average wait time on death row before being executed is 12 years in the US (as of 2009). Jack Alderman was the longest serving inmate of death row after being executed in 2008 after a 33 year wait. There is debate over whether a wait time of several decades is cruel and unusual punishment.

6. Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, 80% of all executions have taken place in the South. The Northeast accounts for less than 2% of executions.

7. 46% of US executions from 1976-2009 were in Texas or Virginia (552). Several states have abolished the death penalty including Michigan in 1846. 9 states had bills seeking to abolish the death penalty in 2009, mainly due to budget concerns.

8. Death Penalty cases cost significantly more than non-death penalty cases:

• The median cost of a death penalty case in Kansas = $1.26 million (2003 legislative audit), 70% higher than comparable non-death penalty cases.

• The cost of a death penalty case in Maryland= $3 million (2008 study) 3 times higher than non-death penalty cases.

9. Over two-thirds of the countries in the world (139) have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. Several more countries rarely allow death penalties and only in the most extreme cases. However a majority of the world’s population live in countries that do practice capital punishment.

10. In 2008, 93% of all known executions took place in 5 countries – China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the USA. China has more executions alone than the rest of the world combined, although the exact number is unknown and believed to be significantly higher than the minimum estimates.

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The force of justice is designed to protect the innocent and punish the guilty, providing a fair framework around which to live our lives. Yet, what happens when justice itself goes wrong and turns to injustice? Over the years countless individuals have been put to death for crimes against society, but we’d be naïve to assume they were all as guilty as their punishment suggests. Some have later been found innocent and pardoned, others await fair reconsideration from authorities unwilling to admit to their mistakes. As the old saying goes: ‘Who shall police the police?’

10. Colin Campbell Ross – executed 1922, pardoned 2008

The 1921 rape and murder of 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke in Melbourne, Australia, would go down in history as the infamous Gun Alley Murder. A year later 30-year-old known robber, Colin Campbell Ross, was arrested and charged despite the testimony of several witnesses who placed him in his saloon while the crime was being committed. Despite this evidence Campbell was executed in 1922, in gruesome fashion – the new four-strand noose succeeded only in prolonging his death as he slowly strangled for minutes on the gallows. Years later a schoolteacher took up Campbell’s cause and demanded the case be reopened. In 2006 forensic analysis was done on hair found at the crime scene and in 2008, 86 years after his execution, Campbell was pardoned.

9. Timothy Evans – executed 1950, pardoned 1966

On 9 March 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged at London’s Pentonville prison for the murder of his wife, Beryl, and daughter, Geraldine. In what would become a landmark case for the abolition of capital punishment in Britain, Evans was later found innocent and posthumously pardoned – the reason: only years after Evans’ execution did it emerge that a lodger in the house was none other than notorious serial killer, John Christie. Christie confessed to the killings and after becoming a cause célèbre for death penalty abolitionists, Evans was eventually granted a posthumous pardon. His relatives later claimed it wasn’t enough.

8. Mahmood Hussein Mattan – executed 1952, overturned 1998

On the morning of September 3, 1952, young Somali sailor Mahmood Mattan was taken from his cell at Cardiff prison, marched to the gallows and hanged. Seven weeks earlier he had been found guilty of slitting the throat of shopkeeper Lily Volpert. Despite having several alibis supported by witnesses, Mattan was convicted due to flecks of blood on his shoes and the testimony of Harold Cover. Only later did it emerge that the shoes he wore were secondhand and Cover was a violent criminal who would later be jailed for life for the attempted murder of his own daughter. In 1998 the case was reopened and new evidence examined, resulting in Mattan’s conviction being overturned and his family being awarded £700,000 compensation – the first compensation award to the family of a person wrongfully executed in the UK.

7. Ellis Wayne Felker – executed 1996, conviction inconclusive 2000

When Georgian student, Evelyn Joy Ludlum, disappeared in 1981, convicted sex offender, Ellis Wayne Ludlum, was immediately put under surveillance – during which time Ludlum’s mutilated body was found, raped, in a creek. An autopsy subsequently revealed that Evelyn had been dead for five days, information that was later changed when police realised it would rule out Felker from the investigation. During the trial, attorneys discovered boxes of withheld evidence, including DNA evidence and a signed confession by another man, but the Georgia Supreme Court denied the admissibility of this evidence and refused to give Felker more time. He was executed by electric chair on November 15, 1996. In 2000, a Georgia judge ruled that DNA testing would be performed in the first-ever attempt by a court to exonerate an executed person in the United States. The results were ruled as inconclusive, but failed to confirm Felker’s guilt beyond doubt – scientific consensus now judges him to have been innocent.

6. William Marion – executed 1887, pardoned 1986

William Marion met Jack Cameron at a boarding house in Kansas in 1872, and the two quickly became firm friends, travelling and working together across the mid-west. During their travels they journeyed to Beatrice, Nebraska, to visit Marion’s in-laws – Marion returned alone a few days later wearing Cameron’s clothes and riding Cameron’s horses, before vanishing. A week later the body of a man was discovered with three bullet wounds to the head. Marion immediately became the prime suspect in the murder and after a ten-year manhunt was eventually apprehended in Kansas, convicted and hanged. Four years later alleged ‘victim’, Cameron, miraculously re-appeared looking for his friend and explaining he had ditched his clothes and horses with Marion and escaped to Mexico to avoid a shotgun marriage. 100 years after his execution Marion’s grandson, Elbert Marion, successfully petitioned the governor of Nebraska to pardon William Marion – making Marion one of several ‘murderers’ whose ‘victims’ have survived them.

5. Cameron Todd Willingham – executed 2004, conviction unsustainable 2009

On the night of December 23, 1991, an uncontrollable blaze engulfed the Willingham’s house in Corsicana, Texas, claiming the lives of one-year-old twins Karmon and Kameron Willingham, as well as two-year-old Amber Louise Kuykendall Willingham. Subsequently, Willingham was arrested and charged with the murder of his three daughters. The trial hinged on whether the fire had been deliberately started using some form of liquid accelerant – a claim police supported with evidence including char patterns in the floor in the shape of ‘puddles’, multiple starting points for the fire, and the fact that the fire had burned ‘fast and hot’. Willingham was found guilty – despite expert objections from scientists who rebutted all twenty of the police’s indications that an accelerant had been used – and rejected a life term in exchange for a guilty plea, insisting he was innocent. Since Willingham’s death, persistent doubts have arisen, and general scientific consensus has been that the fire was not an act of arson. The Texas Forensic Science Commission was scheduled to discuss the case in 2009, but two days before the meeting Texas Governor Rick Perry mysteriously replaced the chair of the commission and two other members.

4. George Kelly – executed 1950, quashed 2003

In March 1950 out of work laborer, George Kelly, was convicted of shooting dead 44-year-old Leonard Thomas during a robbery at the Cameo Cinema in Liverpool, UK. The crime would become the focus of one of the most intense police investigations in English history, with over 65,000 people questioned. There were, however, no suspects until the police received a letter from an anonymous writer offering to name those involved in exchange for immunity. The informant named Kelly as the robber and an accomplice, Charles Connolly, as the lookout. With the eyes of the nation upon him, Connolly admitted his guilt and was sentenced to 10 years in prison; Kelly denied any wrongdoing and, after the then longest criminal trial in English history, was convicted and executed. In 2003 the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed Kelly’s conviction, ruling that it was based on the prosecution’s concealment of a statement that another man, Donald Johnson, had confessed to the crime months before. In 2004, Mr. Kelly’s daughter, Catherine, finally oversaw his reburial alongside other family members.

3. Charles Hudspeth – executed 1892, victim ‘found’ 1893

In 1886, George Watkins and his wife, Rebecca, moved from Kansas to Marion County, Arkansas, where Rebecca subsequently became romantically involved with a local man, Charles Hudspeth. Nearly a year later, George Watkins disappeared and Hudspeth was arrested and charged with his murder. Based on Rebecca’s testimony that Hudspeth had murdered Watkins in order to clear the way for them to be married, he was convicted and sentenced to death by Arkansas’ Supreme Court, and was hanged at Harrison, Arkansas, on December 30, 1892. Yet in another case of a ‘victim’ mysteriously reappearing after their ‘murder’, Watkins’s lawyer found him alive and well a year later, living in Kansas – a clear case of wrongful execution the US government has failed to address.

2. Derek Bentley – executed 1953, quashed 1998

On Sunday 2 November 1952, Derek Bentley and his friend 16 year-old Christopher Craig, prowled the streets of London intending to commit a burglary. After two unsuccessful attempts they climbed on to the roof of a warehouse in Croydon, only to be seen by a young girl, whose mother immediately phoned for the police. Bentley was immediately detained, without resisting arrest, but Craig made off discharging his pistol at the police. At some point Bentley, standing by in cuffs, uttered the now infamous words, ‘let him have it, Craig!’ – moments later Craig shot PC Sidney Miles through the head, killing him. The pair were tried for murder under the principle of ‘joint enterprise’ and found guilty; Craig was sentenced to jail, being a minor, but Bentley, who hadn’t possessed or fired a gun, was sentenced to death – his conviction resting on whether or not ‘let him have it’ was an instruction to shoot or to hand over the weapon. Bentley was hanged in January, 1953. Following the execution there a wave of public outrage resulted in a long campaign, led by Bentley’s sister Iris, to secure a posthumous pardon for him – a campaign which proved partially successful in 1993, with a Royal pardon, and fully succeeded in 1998 as a panel quashed Bentley’s conviction.

1. Thomas & Meeks Griffin, executed 1915, pardoned 2009

Thomas and Meeks Griffin were executed in 1915 for the murder of 73-year-old John Q Lewis, a Confederate veteran living in Blackstock, South Carolina. Prominent and respected black farmers in Chester County, they doggedly denied the accusations, forcing a wave of prominent figures to come to their defense including Blackstock’s mayor, a sheriff, two trial jurors and the grand jury foreman. Despite their popular support the pair were found guilty of murder based on the accusations of another man, John ‘Monk’ Stevenson, who was known to be a small-time thief. Stevenson, who had been found in possession of the victim’s pistol, was sentenced to life in prison in exchange for testifying against the brothers. Over 90 years later the brothers’ great-nephew, talk-show host Tom Joyner, petitioned the state for a pardon, which was successfully passed by a vote of 7-0, finally clearing their names in 2009. Todd Shaw, political science and African American studies professor at the University of South Carolina, summed up the case succinctly when he stated: “There are more stories out there to be told, and possibly many more injustices to be righted.”

3. Luis Garavito (140)

4. Thug Behram (125)

5. Javed Iqbal (100)

1. Gary Leon Ridgway (48 Victims)