November 2010 Archives

The Pittsburg Tribune Review reports that lawyers for a woman charged with killing an FBI agent can't use expert witnesses on police procedures in an attempt to argue the agent's death was the result of sloppy police work.  Christina Korbe, 41, of Indiana Township is charged with fatally shooting Special Agent Sam Hicks on Nov. 19, 2008, as he led officers into her home to arrest her husband on drug charges.

Korbe claims she thought the officers were burglars. U.S. District Judge Terrence McVerry ruled that "evidence of police standard operating procedures and police training ... is not relevant to the pertinent inquiry of whether defendant acted in self-defense."  Korbe's trial is scheduled to start March 7 in federal court.

Read more: pittsburglive.com.

The trial of Ingmar Guandiqueis in the death of Chandra Levy is in its second week of witness testimony.  Guandique is charged in the death of Levy, a federal intern who went missing in 2001. Tests for fingerprints, blood and semen all failed to return any usable, confirmed results, witnesses testified Wednesday at D.C. Superior Court.

A retired Federal Bureau of Investigation fingerprint technician who testified as an expert witness told the court that he examined a sneaker, shoe and heel inserts, a radio cassette player, headphones, a tube of lipstick, and broken sunglasses for latent finger prints. The expert said no usable latent prints were recovered and comparing fingerprints from a car found near the Levy crime scene with the fingerprints of Guandique and another person, did not get any conclusive results.

Read more: tbd.com.