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Elizabeth Smart, right, walks out of the federal courthouse with her mother Lois Smart after testifying at a competency hearing for her alleged kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, Oct. 1 2009, in Salt Lake City.
Eight years since Brian David Mitchell broke into their family home and kidnapped Elizabeth Smart at knifepoint, the jury deliberated just five hours before declaring Mitchell guilty for kidnapping and sex crimes against 14-year-old Smart. Elizabeth has said she is relieved.
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Elizabeth's abductor, Brian David Mitchell, is seen here entering the federal court house Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 in Salt Lake City.
Mitchell currently awaits his sentencing in May 2011. He will almost certainly face a lifelong prison term.
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Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, react as their car is attacked, in London, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. An Associated Press photographer saw demonstrators kick the car on Regent Street, in the heart of London's shopping district. No one was injured.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton pose in the Cornwall Room in St James's Palace in London on Nov. 25, 2010, in one of their two official engagement portraits.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton pose in the Council Chamber in the State Apartment in St James's Palace in London on Nov. 25, 2010, in one of the couple's two official engagement photos.
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Amanda Knox sits in court before the start of the hearing of her appeal trial in Perugia's courthouse on December 18, 2010. Knox, an American convicted of murdering a British student in Italy, was granted an independent review of the forensic evidence in her case.
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Amanda Knox's mother Edda Mellas, left, attends the appeal hearing of Amanda Knox over the guilty verdict in the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia's court of Appeal on December 18, 2010 in Perugia, Italy. American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of the murder of Ms Knox's former British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. Their trial took place in December 2009 with Knox and Sollecito receiving sentences of 26 and 25 years respectively. Rudy Guede, an unemployed man from Ivory Coast, was also convicted of the Meredith Kercher's murder.
Mellas has appeared in the media often since her daughter's conviction, attesting her innocence.
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Mark Madoff, one of Bernard Madoff's sons, was found dead of an apparent suicide Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 on the second anniversary of his father's arrest, according to a law enforcement official. Mark Madoff, 46, was found hanged in his apartment in Manhattan's fashionable SoHo section, according to the official. A family member notified police around 7:30 a.m.
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In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York.
Madoff's son Mark was found hanged on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 in his New York City apartment of an apparent suicide. Some speculated that the toxic name of Madoff drove Mark Madoff to kill himself on the second anniversary of his father's arrest in the worst investment fraud in American history.
