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Ex-Homeland Security Worker Freed on Bond Montgomery Judge Acquitted In Ticket-Tampering Case Grieving Grandmother Spared Prison in Girl’s Death Montgomery Sentencing Sparks an Outcry; Officials Want Tougher Laws After Driver Paid $500 Fine in Pedestrian Death Aron Wins Ruling Against Split Trial; Prosecutors Wanted Guilt, Mental State Considered Separately Actor Phill Lewis Indicted In Md. Woman’s Car Death Grandmother to Plead Guilty To Involuntary Manslaughter;Md. Girl’s Overdose a Mistake, Lawyer Says Evidence Supports Rape Accusation, Prosecutor Argues; Bethesda Dentist’s Attorney Says Case ‘Based on a Lie’ No Memory Of Accident, TV Star Says Gaithersburg Physicist to Fight Extradition in Slaying of Wife Strangulation Disputed in Murder Trial;Md. Man’s Attorney Challenges Report Suspect Wasn’t Violent, Father Says; Teen Accused of Killing Psychiatrist Is Mentally Ill, Attorney Says Defense Opens, Seeking an Acquittal TV Star Involved in Fatal Crash; Police Call Alcohol a Factor in Accident Aron Lawyer Grills Her Lawyers Portray 2 Different Arons Trial Starts with Rival Accounts of Shooting Defense: No Proof Dad Killed Tots: Father is Suspected of Slaying Two Babies to Collect Insurance Gang-Rape Victim Identifies Defendant as One of Attackers Friends’ Alleged Plot Tied to Custody Fight; Md. Trial Starts in Attack on Husband No Significant Blood on Slain Man’s Hand Suspect Will Not Quit Planning Board Post Doctors’ Testimony Expected in Aron Case Prosecutors Challenge Suicide Theory A Rapist on the Run Md. Lawyer Convicted In Attack on Husband; Wife’s Friend Goes on Trial in Sept. Rape Trial Jury Told Suspect Coached Co-Defendants on Testimony Aron Allegedly Was Abused as Child; Long-Kept Secret Helps Explain Plot Against Husband, Her Lawyer Says Aron Sought Revenge, Court Told; Slaying Plot Unfolds on Tape and in Go-Between’s Allegations Council Hesitates to Force Aron from Planning Panel; Slaying Case Perplexes Montgomery Officials Aron to Take Leave from Board, Attorney Says; Arrangement Would Allow Jailed Suspect to Keep Seat but Not Participate in Decisions Where is the Fugitive Dentist? Doctor Says Actor Admitted He Drove in Crash Einstein Teacher Praised in Court: Charged with Sexually Abusing 4 Students High Court Ruling Hits Home Quickly; Miranda Expansion Leads Judge to Bar Tape in D.C. Murder Case Judge Fined for Road Rage Resigns Baby’s Death ‘Wasn’t Right’; Firefighter Tells Md. Jury of Suspicions About Infant Girl Prosecutors Paint Picture of Scam That Turned Deadly Trial Begins for Montgomery Officer in Wheaton Shooting Searching for More Sex-Abuse Claims; Officials Investigate Scope of Alleged Inappropriate Contact Ex-Teacher at Sidwell Gets 5 Years on Probation; A Plea Bargain Spared Young Abuse Victim from Testifying in Court Self-Defense Asserted in Slaying of 3; Montgomery Suspect to Get Medical Exam Prosecutors Depict Scam Turned Deadly; Psychologist’s Killing May Be Linked to Debt Md. Officer Charged in Shooting;Suspect Left Duty for Woman’s Home Ex-Whitman Player Pleads Guilty Three Signing Interpreters Open Deaf Defendant’s Trial; Stabbing of Blind Girlfriend Is Alleged Md. Hotel Bar Fights Loss of Liquor License; Rum and Coke Not Viewed as Half Food Father’s First Trial to Begin; Two Babies’ Deaths Initially Tied to SIDS Aron’s Husband Tells of a Marriage Crumbling Quietly Trial of Husband Opens in Scientist’s Slaying Pathologist: Defendant Suffocated Baby Case Against Son Is Shaky, Lawyer Says Retrial of Former Soldier Gets Underway in 2006 Shooting Death From the Ruthann Aron Trial, Comedy and Drama Damage to Brain Claimed School Bus Aide Not Guilty of Assault Conviction in Son’s Death Overturned; Court Criticizes Gansler’s Use of SIDS Statistics in Insurance Argument Jury Tries Again Today for Verdict Aron’s Lawyers Oppose Ouster Aron Gets Three Years for Hiring a Hit Man: Judge Denies Plea for Treatment Judge Clears Way for Aron to Be Incarcerated in Hospital Aron Ranked Spouse First Hit, Tape Shows Aron’s Husband Believes She is Mentally Ill 5-Year-Old Testifies at Molestation Trial Baby Wasn’t Smothered, Expert Says: Prosecutors Question Seizure Claim Former Coach Pleads Guilty to 6 Counts of Sexual Abuse February ’98: An Almanac of the Significant, the Insignificant, the Words, Numbers and Images That Shaped the Year
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