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Attorneys: Suspect in Colorado theatre shootings will plead not guilty by reason of insanity

DENVER - Lawyers for the man accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in a Colorado movie theatre said Tuesday he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. Attorneys for James Holmes said in a court filing they plan to formally ask for the change of plea at a May 13 hearing. A judge in the case previously entered a standard not guilty plea for Holmes. If the judge accepts the insanity plea, Holmes would be sent to the state mental hospital, where doctors would determine whether he was insane at the time of the July 20 shootings.

Victim emotion helps Conservatives promote tough-on-crime justice agenda

OTTAWA - The complexity of including the perspective of victims in Canada's criminal justice system was encapsulated nicely Thursday in a single, 24-minute news conference on Parliament Hill. And it highlighted a question that too often goes unasked in official Ottawa: When does justice for victims become Old Testament vengeance on criminals? "It's taken years for victims to try to get the message out that we are not these angry, vengeful people," said Sharon Rosenfeldt, whose 16-year-old son Daryn was one of the victims of serial killer Clifford Olsen in 1981.

Germany pledges to flush out neo-Nazi prison network

German authorities vowed Thursday to root out a just-discovered neo-Nazi network in the country's prisons that attempted to establish contact with criminals and militants still at large. The far-right gang in the western state of Hesse used secret code to seek out potential allies beyond the prison walls including a woman set to go on trial next week for her alleged role in 10 murders.

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SEOUL, March 25 (Yonhap) --The number foreign criminal suspects arrested in South Korea nearly doubled in the 2007-2011 period, a government report showed Monday. The number of foreigners apprehended as a suspect in a criminal case increased from 14,524 in 2007 to 27,144 in 2011, while the number of Korean criminal suspects decreased from 2.11 million to 1.87 million in the same period, according to the report released by the state-run Korean Institute of Criminology.

Doctor faces jail in Britain for spycam sex attacks

A doctor pleaded guilty in Britain on Friday to using a secret camera hidden in his wristwatch to film himself sexually assaulting female patients. Davinderjit Bains, 45, admitted that he assaulted 30 women at his practice in southern England. The Indian-trained doctor filmed the attacks on his high-definition Tieex Spy Watch, which has been compared to a gadget from the James Bond films. He admitted a total of 39 charges -- 13 charges of assault by penetration, 13 charges of voyeurism, 11 charges of sexual assault and two charges of sexual activity with a child.

UPDATE 2-Judge enters not guilty plea for Colorado theater gunman

(Adds comment from man wounded in shooting and other details) By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo., March 12 (Reuters) - A Colorado judge presiding over the case of accused theater gunman James Holmes entered a not guilty plea on his behalf on Tuesday to charges he went on a shooting spree in a Denver suburb nearly eight months ago and killed 12 moviegoers.

More than 100 guns found in Venezuela riot prison

Authorities found more than 100 firearms, including rifles and submachine guns, in a Venezuelan prison where nearly 60 people died in rioting last month, the government said Thursday. It took security forces two days to regain full control of the Uribana prison in northwestern Venezuela after the prison brawl, which brutally underscored the crowded and violent conditions in the country's jails. The arsenal included 27 revolvers, five shotguns, 62 pistols, four submachine guns and 12 grenades, prisons minister Iris Varela said at a press conference.

Report links US drug agents to Secret Service prostitute scandal -NBC

WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Two U.S. drug enforcement agents "facilitated a sexual encounter" between a prostitute and a Secret Service agent before an international summit in Colombia last April, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing a Justice Department investigation. The two Drug Enforcement Administration agents also admitted paying for the sexual services of a prostitute, and used their government-issued BlackBerry devices to arrange the encounters, NBC reported.
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