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A Detroit jury ruled today that Theodore Wafer was guilty of murder in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Renisha McBride on his porch. The jury, which consists of seven men and five women, began its deliberations on Wednesday after nine days of testimony. Wafer, 55, is charged with second degree murder and manslaughter for shooting and killing McBride, 19, last November when the teenager showed up inebriated on his porch at 4:40 a.m. Wafer said he could only make out a figure around his house, said the person pounded on his door and made him fear for his life.

In November 2013, 54-year-old Theodore Wafer was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, and possession of a firearm for fatally shooting 19-year-old Renisha McBride on the front porch of his suburban Detroit home. McBride, who had been drinking heavily and smoking pot that night, wound up at Wafer's door after wandering away from the scene of a late-night car accident several hours before. (Witnesses said she appeared "disoriented.") Prosecutors and McBride's family say she was clearly looking for help. Wafer said that he acted in self-defense, having taken the noise McBride was making outside for a sign that someone was trying...

Judge David Turfe said Detroit-area man, Theodore Wafer, made a 'bad choice' when he shot dead Renisha McBride through the screen of his front door in the early hours of November 2 Wafer, said he feared for his life and acted in self-defense but the judge rejected this argument Thursday He will now stand trial for second-degree murder and manslaughter .... Victim's family cried in court as the ruling was announced Wafer, 54, called 911 around 4:30 a.m. and said he had shot someone who was banging on his door Three hours earlier, McBride had crashed her car into a...

MT. LAUREL, N.J., April 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In online commerce nothing is sacred - at least, that is the message of an email eBay wrote to concerned Catholics who expressed their disgust at the auction of a Eucharistic host, allegedly consecrated by the late Pope John Paul II. In an email response, eBay claimed that as a diverse community it could not prohibit the sale of items that were not illegal, although they may be distasteful to some of its members. "As Catholics we profess a belief that Jesus did not debate the meaning of the word 'is,'" said...

An eBay spokesman explained Wednesday why the online auction site allowed the sale of a Holy Communion wafer allegedly blessed by the late Pope John Paul II in 1998 at his 20th anniversary Mass. The wafer was offered on Saturday by a seller in Sloan, Iowa, and sold on Monday for $2,000 to a man in Cupertino, Calif. The Diocese of Sioux City let it be known Tuesday that is was offended by the item's listing. Hani Durzy of eBay said the listing "kicked up a minor controversy at eBay," as well. But, he said, it was determined that...

The thing about Liberals is that if you don't like their principles, all you have to do is wait a bit and they'll have some new ones. This is exactly what Prime Minister Paul Martin and his party have done on same-sex marriage. On June 8, 1999, Martin, then Jean Chretien's finance minister, along with most Liberal MPs, voted in favour of the following resolution, moved by the Reform party and passed by the House of Commons: "That, in the opinion of this House, it is necessary, in light of public debate around recent court decisions, to state that marriage...