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News White supremacist sentenced for soliciting murder of federal judge
White supremacist sentenced for soliciting murder of federal judge
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 02:11:00 pm

US District Judge James Moody sentenced white supremacist Matthew Hale to 40 years in prison for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to murder US District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow . In an earlier, trademark infringement suit, Lefkow had...

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News Hong Kong asks China for ruling on term length issue
Hong Kong asks China for ruling on term length issue
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 01:47:00 pm

Hong Kong's Acting Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Wednesday that it is "accurate and necessary" to ask China's National People's Congress to interpret Hong Kong's Basic Law in order to settle...

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News German court acquits terror suspect of plot to bomb US targets
German court acquits terror suspect of plot to bomb US targets
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 12:49:00 pm

A German court Wednesday found Tunisian national Ihsan Garnaoui not guilty of charges of founding a terrorist organization and planning bomb attacks against American and Jewish targets in Germany. Garnaoui went on trial last May on allegations...

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News Conclave electing papal successor to begin April 18
Conclave electing papal successor to begin April 18
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 12:21:00 pm

The Vatican announced Wednesday that the College of Cardinals has set April 18 as the beginning of its secret conclave to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II, who died Saturday . The conclave will...

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News Connecticut to challenge constitutionality of No Child Left Behind Act
Connecticut to challenge constitutionality of No Child Left Behind Act
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 08:15:00 am

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Tuesday that his office is preparing the first state-sponsored federal lawsuit against the US Department of Education for imposing millions of dollars worth of illegal...

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News Kansans vote to add same-sex marriage ban to state constitution
Kansans vote to add same-sex marriage ban to state constitution
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 07:59:00 am

Voters in Kansas overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment Tuesday that will ban same-sex couples from marrying or entering into civil unions. Kansas law already prohibits same-sex marriage, but supporters of the constitutional amendment have said...

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News UPDATE ~ Talabani elected new interim Iraqi president
UPDATE ~ Talabani elected new interim Iraqi president
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 07:39:00 am

As expected , Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was elected by the 275-member Iraqi National Assembly Wednesday to serve as president of Iraq's transitional government. In the same vote, Shiite Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Sunni current...

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News Justice Department releases new Patriot Act data ahead of hearings
Justice Department releases new Patriot Act data ahead of hearings
Jeannie Shawl
April 5, 2005 08:32:00 am

Ahead of key Senate Judiciary Committee hearings Tuesday on whether Congress should extend the USA PATRIOT Act , the Justice Department has released new data suggesting that some of the extraordinary powers...

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News ICC investigators get UN Darfur papers
ICC investigators get UN Darfur papers
Jeannie Shawl
April 5, 2005 08:08:00 am

Pursuant to a Security Council resolution passed Thursday, the International Criminal Court has received several boxes of evidence on alleged war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region collected by the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur [Commission report,...

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News Executions, death sentences on the rise, Amnesty reports
Executions, death sentences on the rise, Amnesty reports
Jeannie Shawl
April 5, 2005 07:43:00 am

At least 3,797 people were executed in 2004 and at least 7,395 people in 64 countries were sentenced to death last year, according to the annual report on the use of capital punishment released by Amnesty International ...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying

On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.

Lockerbie bombers turned over for trial

On April 5, 1999, the government of Libya turned over to British authorities two of its citizens who were accused of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. The subsequent trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah began on May 3, 2000. When the court reached its verdict, Fhimah was found not guilty and returned to Libya, while Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Learn more about the Lockerbie Air Disaster and the trial of Megrahi and Fhimah from the Syracuse University Law School. Also, learn more about the investigation into the disaster from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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