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The judge in the San Diego City Hall corruption case ruled against the defendants yesterday on their most significant pretrial requests, including motions to throw out wiretap recordings and to split the case into separate trials. The defense had asked that the wiretaps be ruled inadmissible because an FBI agent failed to disclose on wiretap applications that defendant Lance Malone made statements showing his ignorance of a criminal conspiracy, in particular a comment that "nothing illegal" was going on. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey T. Miller dismissed that argument, concluding that the judge who approved the wiretap applications "had substantial basis...

Florida Man Wades into Kobe Drama Lawyer asks judge to bar cameras from court to keep filth off television By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News August 20, 2003 The peanut gallery surrounding the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case keeps expanding and is making itself heard loud and clear. On Tuesday, one day after a Boulder couple associated with the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation filed papers in the Bryant case which one legal observer labeled a "legal version of junk mail," a Florida attorney with no previous connection to the Eagle County proceedings waded into the Bryant drama with a motion...

NORWALK -- The state is prosecuting Michael Skakel in the 1975 killing of Martha Moxley, but the defense made it eminently clear Wednesday it wants to put former Skakel family tutor and suspect Kenneth Littleton on trial instead. Less than an hour after the fourth alternate juror was chosen Wednesday, ending the jury selection process on day 14, Skakel's defense team filed motions detailing their case against Littleton and the reasons why they should be allowed to pursue some rare legal avenues, including: The use of polygraph results - which typically are inadmissible as evidence - to connect Littleton with...