Day: April 15, 2015

Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin seeks to have conviction tossed

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Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin leaves the courthouse in New OrleansAttorneys for former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who is serving a 10-year sentence in federal prison for corruption, are seeking to have his 2014 conviction overturned because of what they say were flawed instructions given to the jury, court papers show. He was thrust into the national spotlight in 2005 when the storm's waters overwhelmed levees and flooded 80 percent of New Orleans, killing 1,500 people and causing some $80 billion in damage. In a court papers filed on Tuesday, Nagin's attorneys said the judge in the case erred in telling jurors to find him guilty of nine counts of fraud and one count of conspiracy even if he would have acted in the same way without the inducement of a payoff.

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Teens admit to criminal threat in California school shooting plot

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Two teenagers accused of conspiring to kill teachers and students at their suburban Los Angeles high school admitted on Wednesday to making a criminal threat in connection with the planned mass shooting that never materialized, prosecutors said. The pair were arrested in August by police who said the plot was thwarted after detectives were tipped off by administrators at South Pasadena High School. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the teens, now aged 18 and 17, appeared in Pasadena Juvenile Court and each admitted to one felony count of criminal threats. One was arrested at his home without incident, while the other “resisted arrest and officers had to force entry into his residence,” police said in a statement at the time.

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