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Now that the teenaged Boston bombing suspect has confessed, according to news reports, the case against Dzhokar Tsarnaev moves to a federal grand jury. Tsarnaev told investigators he and his brother committed the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 250 because they were upset about the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was questioned in a Boston hospital, where he is is in fair condition with gunshot wounds in the neck, head, legs and hands. …

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was formally charged on Apr. 22 at his hospital bedside with federal terrorist crimes.  As soon as he was captured on Apr. 19, legal experts began debating how his questioning should be handled, bringing up the “public safety” exception to the rule that police must warn suspects of their rights to remain silent and hire a lawyer.   Talking with the Suspect Tsarnaev has been charged with two crimes: using …

A Louisiana man who was apparently killed because he had black friends could be the subject of a federal hate crime trial, experts believe. Michael Luke Darby, 24, was stabbed to death by assailants last month after he left a bar with two black companions. Two men have been arrested for the murder after Darby’s body was found behind some bushes in Lafayette. According to local news reports, on Oct. 14 Darby and his friends were confronted in the street …

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Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings and Juggalos? The latter, the unofficial name for the tattooed, rabid fan base of horror-core rock group Insane Clown Posse, have been classified as a “loosely-organized hybrid gang” by the FBI in their latest gang threat assessment. The band, known as ICP for short, is none too happy about the designation and is suing the FBI to find out what exactly their fans did to deserve such a label. Although the FBI report notes that crimes …