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News Ex-UN oil-for-food investigator turns subpoenaed documents over to Congress
Ex-UN oil-for-food investigator turns subpoenaed documents over to Congress
Kate Heneroty
May 6, 2005 11:43:00 am

Robert Parton, who resigned last month as senior investigative counsel for the Independent Inquiry Committee into the defunct UN Oil-for-Food Program , has handed over potentially incriminating documents to a US congressional committee. The...

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News Appeals court strikes down FCC broadcast flag rules
Appeals court strikes down FCC broadcast flag rules
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 11:33:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Friday that FCC regulations prohibiting the manufacture of video and computer hardware without broadcast flag anti-piracy technology are invalid. The court said:The broadcast...

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News Madrid train bombing charge for 9/11 suspect
Madrid train bombing charge for 9/11 suspect
Kate Heneroty
May 6, 2005 11:04:00 am

A Spanish judge has charged 11 additional suspects with participating in the Madrid commuter train bombings that in March 2004 killed 191 and injured 1,900, bringing the total charged up to 101 people. Included in Thursday's indictment is Driss...

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News Poll: 3 of 4 Iraqis want Islam to be primary source for Iraq law
Poll: 3 of 4 Iraqis want Islam to be primary source for Iraq law
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 10:58:00 am

A poll of 2700 Iraqis released Friday reports that three out of four citizens believe that Islam should be a primary source of Iraqi law and legislation, with only two percent of respondents believing that religion...

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News British election officials demand postal vote safeguards after third Labour victory
British election officials demand postal vote safeguards after third Labour victory
Kate Heneroty
May 6, 2005 10:39:00 am

Despite a low 61% turnout and an undisputed third-term victory for Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party in Thursday's UK election, officials from the UK Electoral Commission [official...

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Bush, Nigerian president discuss bringing Taylor to trial
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 10:28:00 am

President Bush and visiting Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo discussed how indicted ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor might be brought to trial during a meeting Thursday at the White House. Taylor, now in exile in Nigeria, has been charged...

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Nepalese rights activists oppose charging of former Prime Minister
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 09:58:00 am

Nepalese political leaders and rights activists Friday condemned the bringing of corruption charges against former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, with the head of Nepal's Informal Sector Service Center calling the royal anti-graft commission a...

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UN troubled by increase in sexual abuse allegations against peacekeepers
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 09:32:00 am

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a report released Thursday that an increase in allegations of sexual abuse against UN peacekeepers and related staff is "deeply troubling," but may be related to "the newly...

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Abu Ghraib general demoted for dereliction of duty, shoplifting
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 09:16:00 am

The US Army has announced that President Bush Thursday approved the demotion of Brigadier General Janis Karpinski to colonel, effectively ending her military career. Karpinski, the former commanding officer at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, had...

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Till family members oppose FBI exhumation
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 08:56:00 am

Members of the family of Emmett Till , a 14-year-old black youngster killed after whistling at a white woman in 1955, are vehemently opposing the FBI's plan to exhume the boy's body . Two suspects in the...

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Gandhi sentenced for sedition after civil disobedience campaign

On March 18, 1922, a court in British-ruled India sentenced Mohandas Gandhi to six years in prison for sedition in connection with his civil disobedience campaign for Indian home rule. Read Gandhi's famous statement to the trial court. Gandhi served two years of his sentence and was then released.

Supreme Court requires states to provide counsel for indigent defendants

On March 18, 1963, the US Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright held that the Constitution requires states to provide counsel for indigent criminal defendants. For a unanimous Court, Justice Hugo Black wrote, "Any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him." Counsel had been required for indigent federal defendants since 1938.

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