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Jurors in the murder trial of George Huguely V, accused of fatally beating his former University of Virginia girlfriend two years ago, will begin deliberation in the case later this week, after two weeks of intense testimony and several delays. The prosecution gave a lengthy and emotional statement during closing arguments Saturday, describing Huguely, 24, as a bully who couldn't control his drinking or his temper. They claim he killed Yeardley Love, a Cockeysville native, in a jealous rage, then stole her laptop to hide a threatening email trail.

- Prosecutors in the Charlottesville murder trial of George Huguely V plan to rest their case Wednesday, on the sixth day of testimony, against the former University of Virginia student, having portrayed him - largely through his own words - as an abusive, alcoholic brute. Defense attorneys, who will begin presenting their side, are likely to counter with an image of a naive jock who never meant to hurt Yeardley Love, his on-and-off girlfriend of two years. The 22-year-old from Cockeysville died in 2010, after Huguely, who's from Chevy Chase, confronted her about their relationship problems while they were both drunk late one Sunday night, a few weeks before they were set to graduate.

There were multiple bruises on Yeardley Love's body when she died in May 2010, according to testimony from a medical examiner Monday in the murder trial of her former University of Virginia boyfriend, George Huguely V, who's accused of beating the 22-year-old to death in a drunken rage shortly before their graduation. Her calves and thighs were bruised, there were "major" contusions on her left forearm, and there was a large bruise over the knuckles of her left hand, according to William T. Gormley, Virginia's assistant chief medical examiner, who performed the autopsy.

A Naval Academy professor will spend two weekends in jail and be on probation, after he admitted breaking into the Gambrills home of his former girlfriend. Lt. Cmdr. Charles D. Spera, 31, of Bowie, was granted probation before judgment this week by Annapolis District Court Judge Megan B. Johnson, according to court records. She ordered Spera to serve four days in the Anne Arundel County jail and placed him on 18 months probation, after he pleaded guilty to burglary, the records say. The sentence, which is not a conviction, means his record can eventually be cleared if he meets all conditions.

George Huguely V was getting drunk four nights a week in his final month of college, and his lacrosse teammates at the University of Virginia were considering some kind of intervention at the close of the 2010 season, a friend testified Thursday in Charlottesville Circuit Court. But the intervention never happened. Huguely was arrested on murder charges May 3 that year, more than three weeks before the Cavaliers would play their final game in the NCAA semifinals. He is accused of beating to death Cockeysville native Yeardley Love, his on-and-off girlfriend of two years, in a drunken fury.

Two months before Yeardley Love's bruised body was found in a pool of blood in her apartment near the University of Virginia, George Huguely V had violently wrestled her to the ground in a "choke hold," prosecutors said Wednesday, describing it as a precursor to the attack that would kill her. "This was a turbulent relationship," Commonwealth's Attorney Warner D. Chapman said during opening statements in Huguely's trial in Charlottesville Circuit...

Opening statements in the high-profile trial of George W. Huguely V, charged with murder in the death of his former University of Virginia girlfriend, are expected Wednesday in Charlottesville Circuit Court. Attorneys plan to complete the jury selection process first thing in the morning. They spent the past two days methodically selecting potential jurors from a pool of about 160, working well beyond business hours to find objective candidates who hadn't already formed an opinion about Huguely's guilt or innocence based on media reports.

Nearly two years after Cockeysville native Yeardley Love was found dead, bruised and lying in a pool of blood in an off-campus apartment near the University of Virginia, her former boyfriend and fellow lacrosse player is scheduled to stand trial for her murder. Jury selection in the case against George W. Huguely V, now 24, is set to begin Monday in Charlottesville Circuit Court, with opening statements likely Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday. The death of the promising young college student and arrest of her popular one-time boyfriend after a night of drinking in May 2010 shocked the nation - and has led to sweeping expansions in Virginia's protective order laws and the university's safety policies.

Former NBA player Oliver J. Miller was sentenced Friday to a year in the Anne Arundel County jail for pistol-whipping his girlfriend's brother in Arnold. Miller, 41, who was living with his girlfriend in Edgewater, pleaded guilty last fall to first-degree assault and carrying a handgun. "I apologize for the wrong I've done," Miller told Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Paul A. Hackner. He said he is "just a man protecting the people I love. " The allegations stemmed from a family argument at a cookout April 17 at a friend's home.

Nearly four years ago, Tyrone Lamont Webb Jr. reported his girlfriend missing. This week, a jury convicted the 31-year-old of first-degree murder for shooting her twice in the head. He had been charged in 2009 after the woman's body was found by hunters in the woods in Woodlawn. Mia Nichols, 27, was a mother of three. She had been shot and her body discarded, police said at the time, until her partially clothed skeletal remains were discovered off Dogwood Road near Ridge Road. Nichols had worked for Volunteers of America, where she was last seen on Oct. 28, 2008, nearly a year before her body was found.