New York (CNN) -- A New York Police Department officer is on trial in a federal case stemming from a bizarre online plan allegedly to kidnap, cook and eat women.

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The latest was Richard Causey, Enron's former chief accounting officer, who was to have gone on trial but instead pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud.

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He told the story of an officer who testified at the King trial as an expert on the use of force.

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Along with maintaining a top ten ranking, I was a member of three different National Honors Societies (officer of one), played on both the Academic Decathlon and Mock Trial teams, and wrote for the school newspaper and the special teen section of the local daily, The El Paso Times.

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On 12 January 2012 an investigating officer recommended Pte Manning face a military trial.

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The Manhattan jury reached the verdict in federal court at the kidnapping conspiracy trial of Officer Gilberto Valle, a 28-year-old father with an admitted fetish for talking on the Internet about cannibalism.

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