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Defense challenges DNA identification in 1989 'cold case'
NEWSOn Monday, a lawyer for the 54-year-old South Jersey man questioned the integrity of that DNA evidence.

‘I think there’s been a murder’: Philly jury hears of ‘nightmare’ killing of retired Villanova prof
NEWSJose Diaz is charged with murder, robbery, and related offenses in the 2013 killing of Carol Ambruster in her Germantown apartment.
When retired Villanova University astronomy professor Carol Ambruster was stabbed to death in her Germantown apartment on Dec. 9, 2013, what was expected to be a normal day turned into “a nightmare,” a prosecutor told a Philadelphia jury Tuesday.
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Rittenhouse Square stabbing suspect appears in court
NEWSCENTER CITY (WPVI) -- A stabbing suspect faced a judge Wednesday, more than two weeks after a deadly altercation in Rittenhouse Square.
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Judge doesn't bar insanity defense in 2016 Rittenhouse stabbing
NEWSSteven Simminger's paranoid schizophrenia and anxiety were well documented, developing after a 1994 auto accident in the Navy cost him a leg, and left him with a traumatic brain injury and a disability discharge.

Accused of killing 13-year-old in Chinese takeout, Philly man awaits jury’s decision on his fate
NEWSTymear Johnson was charged with murder in the 2017 shooting death of 13-year-old Khiseer Davis-Prather inside the Gold Fish Chinese takeout on Hunting Park Avenue.
The fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy in a Chinese takeout in Nicetown two years ago was a clear case of first-degree murder as evidenced by surveillance video, a city prosecutor told a jury Thursday.
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Social-service official pleads in fraud case
NEWSPHILADELPHIA (AP) - June 10, 2009 Manuelita Buenaflor, 65, of Philadelphia became the first official with MultiEthnic Behavioral Services to enter a plea in the case, although two underlings have signed guilty pleas.
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Defense: No evidence connects men to A.C.'s Dirty Blok gang
NEWSFriendships, phone calls and photos do not add up to conspiracy, according to defense attorneys for four men charged as part of an allegedly violent Atlantic City drug-trafficking organization.
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Judge nixes statement from suspect in Chesco rape case
NEWSWEST CHESTER - A Common Pleas Court judge has ruled that a statement taken from a suspect in two West Chester rapes cannot be used at his trial because police questioning him had improperly circumvented his Miranda rights by not telling him they had an arrest warrant in the case.

