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News California death penalty moratorium blocked
California death penalty moratorium blocked
Jaime Jansen
January 20, 2006 03:27:00 pm

A California proposal for a two-year death penalty moratorium hit a permanent stumbling block in the California Assembly's Appropriations Committee Thursday. The moratorium proposal intended to suspend executions in California until...

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News Iraq tribunal confirms chief Saddam judge has offered resignation
Iraq tribunal confirms chief Saddam judge has offered resignation
Jaime Jansen
January 14, 2006 05:30:00 pm

An official with the Iraqi tribunal trying Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity confirmed Saturday that chief judge Rizgar Amin has in fact submitted his resignation. The resignation was originally reported late Friday but was...

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News DaimlerChrysler suspends 9 over oil-for-food scandal
DaimlerChrysler suspends 9 over oil-for-food scandal
Jaime Jansen
January 14, 2006 05:24:00 pm

DaimlerChrysler has suspended nine managers allegedly involved in the UN oil-for food scandal after a UN inquiry suspected them of paying bribes to secure business delivery trucks to the government of former Iraqi ruler...

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News Thousands rally in Italy for abortion, gay rights
Thousands rally in Italy for abortion, gay rights
Jaime Jansen
January 14, 2006 04:56:00 pm

Thousands of women marched in Milan Saturday, demanding that Italy keep a 1978 law that legalized abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. Police estimated that 50,000 people joined in the march to keep abortion...

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News Bush urges quick confirmation for Alito in radio address
Bush urges quick confirmation for Alito in radio address
Jaime Jansen
January 14, 2006 04:29:00 pm

President George W. Bush praised US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a “man of character and intelligence” during his Saturday radio address , saying the United States would be fortunate to have him...

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News Federal appeals court rejects police immunity claim in protest lawsuit
Federal appeals court rejects police immunity claim in protest lawsuit
Jaime Jansen
January 13, 2006 04:30:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to grant immunity Friday to two police officials named in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 386 people who were roped off at Pershing Park...

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News Supreme Court to weigh evidentiary standard in domestic abuse case
Supreme Court to weigh evidentiary standard in domestic abuse case
Jaime Jansen
January 13, 2006 04:08:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in the case of Dixon v. United States, where the Court will clarify how criminal defendants can use evidence of domestic battery at their trials. Cherie Ashford...

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News Specter announces support for Alito while Democrats seek to delay vote
Specter announces support for Alito while Democrats seek to delay vote
Jaime Jansen
January 13, 2006 03:28:00 pm

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced Friday that he will vote to confirm US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito , while most, if not all, of the eight...

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News Pope John Paul II gunman may return to prison
Pope John Paul II gunman may return to prison
Jaime Jansen
January 13, 2006 02:59:00 pm

Turkey's Minister of Justice Cemil Cicek said Friday that Mehmet Ali Agca , the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, may have mistakenly been released from prison eleven months early for the...

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News Appeals judges testify for Alito as confirmation hearings wind down
Appeals judges testify for Alito as confirmation hearings wind down
Jaime Jansen
January 12, 2006 08:09:00 pm

Seven federal appellate judges who have worked with US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday on the fourth day of his confirmation hearings, saying that...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi SS and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps. Read a biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted anti-Vietnam War bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution. Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts.

Trial of Marquess of Queensberry begins, leading to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde

On April 2, 1895, the libel trial of the Marquess of Queensberry began on allegations that he called Oscar Wilde a "posing somdomite [sic]". The trial led to the disclosure of details of Wilde's personal life that eventually resulted in his imprisonment for homosexuality. Read about the trials of Oscar Wilde.

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