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Lawyers for George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, released a photo today of their client's bloody nose taken moments after he shot the unarmed teenager. As the Orlando Sentinel reports, this photo isn't new. A grainy photocopied version was in a batch of evidence released by the prosecution months ago. Yet to see Zimmerman's clearly battered and bloodied nose in vivid color is bracing.

"Thank You Cards ... personally signed by George," are now going to be sent to those who donate money to the man facing second-degree murder charges for the Feb. 26 shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

A New York City nanny charged with killing two young children in her care last month pleads not guilty from a hospital bed.

Private First Class Bradley Manning is due to take the stand in a military courtroom in his public address since his arrest in Iraq in 2010 on suspicion of stealing secret US military and diplomatic documents.

A Florida judge is denying prosecutors' request for a gag order in the trial of a neighborhood watch leader charged with fatally shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

A judge ruled Friday that
Trayvon Martin's school and social media
records should be provided to attorneys
defending the man accused of killing the teen,
who they argue was the aggressor in the
conflict and has a history of violence.

Jerry Sandusky is launching an effort to overturn his child sexual abuse convictions with a set of motions that say there wasn't enough evidence to convict him and the trial wasn't fair.

In a surprise move on Wednesday, accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed urged the military judge presiding over his case at Guantánamo not to be swayed by broad claims of US national security invoked by prosecutors, nor by sympathy for the nearly 3,000 victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

A U.S. military court ruled on Thursday that Fort Hood shooting suspect Major Nidal Hasan must shave his beard, which he says he grew because of his Muslim faith, before appearing for court-martial on murder charges connected to the 2009 rampage.

A Dallas judge today sentenced Elizabeth Escalona to 99 years in prison for beating her 2-year-old daughter into a coma and gluing her hands to a wall because of potty-training problems.