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Gunman Who Killed Wife, Good Samaritan At NJ Church Wants New Trial Gunman Who Killed Wife, Good Samaritan At NJ Church Wants New Trial
Gunman Who Killed Wife, Good Samaritan At NJ Church Wants New Trial A convict who's 10 years into serving two life sentences for shooting and killing his wife and a congregant at a Clifton church wants New Jersey's highest court to overturn his conviction. Joseph "Sanish" Pallipurath, 40, argues in an appeal to the state Supreme Court that his attorney should have mounted an insanity defense during his trial in Superior Court in Paterson in 2011. Reshma James, 24, had been trying to flee an abusive arranged marriage in India that continued after Pallipurath brought her back with him to California, prosecutors said at the time. James obtained a r…

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DENIED: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tosses Trump Campaign's Bucks County Appeal DENIED: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tosses Trump Campaign's Bucks County Appeal
Denied: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tosses Trump Campaign's Bucks County Appeal Pennsylvania's Supreme Court tossed an emergency appeal request filed by Donald Trump's Campaign over less than 2,000 Bucks County election ballots. Trump's campaign sued the Bucks County Board of Elections a week after the election, saying 2,177 absentee and mail-in ballots didn't adhere to code requirements. The suit says those ballots did not have the voter's handwritten name, address or date on the return envelopes, and some were enclosed in "unsealed" privacy envelopes. The appeal was rejected by the court, which is comprised of a 5-2 Democratic majority. ALSO SEE: US Supreme…

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by Heather Kays and Cecilia Levine