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At a court hearing in Brooklyn on Wednesday, defense attorneys for convicted former NYPD officer Peter Liang accused one juror, Michael Vargas, of lying to get on the jury.  Liang was convicted of manslaughter in February for firing his service weapon into the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project while …

There is no precedent for the ruling of Baltimore circuit court judge Barry Williams.  The judge will allow William Porter, who currently is waiting for a new trial after his own ended in a mistrial, to take the stand against the van driver Caesar Goodson in his second degree murder …