The lawyer for 28 year-old Don Willburn Collins insisted that his client should not be tried for dousing a child with gasoline and setting him on fire at 13 as the state law at that time only allows juveniles at least 14 years of age to be tried for crimes when they reach adulthood.
Reuters said that Patrick Buisson, who served as one of advisers for former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, recorded private talks of the conservative leader, his wife and there entourage during the campaign leading to France's 2012 presidential elections.
In the fourth day of hearing of the murder charges against celebrated Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, a doctor testified to court on how he found the athlete a few moments after addressing the screams purportedly by a woman believed to have been Reeva Steenkamp, BBC said.
Eight Democrat senators joined with their Republican counterparts to vote against Debo Adegbile, Barack Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The opposition - a huge rebuke to the president - was so strong largely from Adegbile's participation in an appeal filed on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the internationally known prisoner who had been convicted for the 1981 slaying of Daniel Faulkner, a Philadelphia police officer.
