Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Court Case With Unserved Summons in MN

Imagine opening up the mail and finding out you're in default—a judge issuing a judgment against you that could lead to your financial ruin.

It’s happened to up to 200 people in Hennepin County, all by mistake. Authorities say one man is to blame and he could go to prison.

Angus Mceachern, 23, had one key job: Serve people with papers saying they're being sued for owing money. But investigators say he never did that and now 1,000 cases are under review.

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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Britney's Ex to Stand Trial for Hitting Process Server with Car

While he's out of Britney Spears' (non pink) hair these days, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib is still finding ways to stir up trouble. Brit's sometime ex-boyfriend will appear for a preliminary hearing May 18 to set a trial date in the case involving a process server he allegedly hit with his car, TMZ reports.

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Man Who Killed Process Server Testifies

Jurors in James Whitler's murder trial saw a video recording Tuesday of Whitler telling authorities he began beating Stephen Allen, the man he's accused of murdering, after he came to view the process server as the object of his marriage's lost hope.

Whitler also told investigators he was praying to God to take care of his two children while he strangled them after beating Allen.

If sheriff's deputies hadn't stopped him, he said he probably would have killed his children and then himself.

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