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News Kyrgyzstan plans more deportations for Uzbek ‘criminals’
Kyrgyzstan plans more deportations for Uzbek ‘criminals’
Tom Henry
June 23, 2005 02:18:00 pm

The Kyrgyz prosecutor general's office said Thursday that Kyrgyzstan plans to deport a group of 29 Uzbek asylum seekers despite UN denunciation of four earlier deportations over the possibility that the returned individuals may...

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News Sunnis endorse 15 for Iraq constitutional committee
Sunnis endorse 15 for Iraq constitutional committee
Tom Henry
June 23, 2005 01:33:00 pm

A group of 50 Sunni Muslim religious, political, and tribal leaders Thursday endorsed a list of 15 men to sit on a special committee to help draft Iraq's new constitution . The announcement ends any debate over...

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News FDA warns states about new prescription drug import laws
FDA warns states about new prescription drug import laws
David Shucosky
June 23, 2005 12:35:00 pm

The US Food and Drug Administration has warned Texas Governor Rick Perry that a law he signed requiring the Texas State Board of Pharmacy to provide information about Canadian pharmacies may violate federal...

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News Medical records used in Guantanamo interrogations
Medical records used in Guantanamo interrogations
David Shucosky
June 23, 2005 12:34:00 pm

Military interrogators at Guantanamo had access to detainees' medical records until early 2003 and possibly later, and exploited information from the records during questioning, according to a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine...

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News Texas commutes death sentences of juvenile offenders
Texas commutes death sentences of juvenile offenders
David Shucosky
June 23, 2005 12:22:00 pm

Following the March Supreme Court ruling that juveniles may not be sentenced to death, Texas Governor Rick Perry has commuted the sentences of 28 offenders to life in prison. They will be...

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News Chalabi: Saddam trial to start within 90 days
Chalabi: Saddam trial to start within 90 days
David Shucosky
June 23, 2005 11:42:00 am

Iraqi deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi said on Thursday that the trial of Saddam Hussein will begin within 90 days, before the end of September 2005. The government had previously stated...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Killen gets 60 years jail for 1964 deaths of civil rights workers
BREAKING NEWS ~ Killen gets 60 years jail for 1964 deaths of civil rights workers
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 23, 2005 11:36:00 am

ABC News is reporting that ex-KKK member Edgar Ray Killen , now 80, has been sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison for manslaughter in connection with the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. Killen...

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News Japanese court overturns compensation for WWII forced laborer
Japanese court overturns compensation for WWII forced laborer
David Shucosky
June 23, 2005 11:20:00 am

The Tokyo High Court overturned a 2001 Tokyo District Court ruling on Thursday that awarded compensation to the family of a Chinese man who was forcibly brought to Japan as a laborer during World War...

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News Arrests made in California medical marijuana raids
Arrests made in California medical marijuana raids
David Shucosky
June 23, 2005 11:20:00 am

Following the Supreme Court's early June decision that Congress can criminalize the use of marijuana with a doctor's permission , federal agents executed search warrants and made arrests on Wednesday in raids on medical marijuana providers in northern...

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News Supreme Court  says city can expropriate land for private redevelopment
Supreme Court says city can expropriate land for private redevelopment
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 23, 2005 10:50:00 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday in Kelo v. New London that a local government authority can expropriate private property - land, homes and businesses - for private redevelopment that confers economic benefits on the...

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Mao Zedong widow sentenced to death in China

On January 25, 1981, Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, was sentenced to death by a special court in China. The charges stemmed primarily from Jiang's role in the Cultural Revolution. Saying "I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite," Qing unsuccessfully argued that she was merely acting at the direction of her late husband, who had died five years earlier. In 1983, Jiang's sentence was commuted to life in prison so that she would have "time to repent." Her official trial documents have still not been released.

Charles Manson and "family" convicted of Tate murders

On January 25, 1971, Charles Manson and three women of his "family" were convicted of murder and conspiracy for the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. Learn more about the trial of Charles Manson from Professor Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

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