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News Iraq court sentences 16 to death
Iraq court sentences 16 to death
Leslie Schulman
June 21, 2007 07:15:00 pm

The Iraq Central Criminal Court handed down 16 death sentences Thursday, the latest such sentences in a country with the fourth highest execution rate in the world . Two of those sentenced were non-Iraqi Arabs arrested...

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News UN war crimes tribunals call for cooperation in catching fugitives
UN war crimes tribunals call for cooperation in catching fugitives
Leslie Schulman
June 18, 2007 08:00:00 pm

Senior UN officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Monday urged countries to cooperate in the capture of numerous fugitives who remain at...

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News UN Hariri panel to probe killing of Lebanon MP
UN Hariri panel to probe killing of Lebanon MP
Leslie Schulman
June 18, 2007 07:08:00 pm

The UN Security Council said Monday it has approved a request by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to aid his country in the investigation of the murder of anti-Syrian legislator Walid Eido [BBC...

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News New Jersey high court limits scope of eminent domain
New Jersey high court limits scope of eminent domain
Leslie Schulman
June 13, 2007 08:36:00 pm

The New Jersey Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that for the state to constitutionally take private property, it must show that the property is blighted. The high court's unanimous ruling eliminates the use of eminent domain...

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News Unclear privacy laws hinder violence prevention: US government report
Unclear privacy laws hinder violence prevention: US government report
Leslie Schulman
June 13, 2007 08:07:00 pm

A joint report delivered to President George W. Bush Wednesday by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Education, and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on the ability of...

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News Congress subpoenas former White House counsel Miers in US Attorney firing probe
Congress subpoenas former White House counsel Miers in US Attorney firing probe
Leslie Schulman
June 13, 2007 07:15:00 pm

Congressional investigators Wednesday issued subpoenas for former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former White House Political Director Sara Taylor in their ongoing probe of the US Attorney firing scandal [JURIST news...

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News Ethiopia appeal of former dictator Mengistu adjourned to July
Ethiopia appeal of former dictator Mengistu adjourned to July
Leslie Schulman
June 12, 2007 08:19:00 pm

Appeal proceedings in the case of former Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam have been adjourned until July 3, following the orders of a judge on Tuesday. Mengistu, who received a life sentence in absentia...

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News ICTR seeks return of genocide case to Rwanda court after death penalty abolition
ICTR seeks return of genocide case to Rwanda court after death penalty abolition
Leslie Schulman
June 12, 2007 07:34:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) requested Monday that the case against Fulgence Kayishema , who was indicted in absentia in 2001 for his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide , be...

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News Taylor trial will continue as scheduled despite boycott:  prosecutor
Taylor trial will continue as scheduled despite boycott: prosecutor
Leslie Schulman
June 12, 2007 01:06:00 pm

The trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor will continue as scheduled, despite Taylor's boycott of the trial's opening last week, according to Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) chief prosecutor Stephen...

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News Detained Iranian-American scholar denied right to counsel:  Ebadi
Detained Iranian-American scholar denied right to counsel: Ebadi
Leslie Schulman
June 11, 2007 08:34:00 pm

Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , currently detained by the Iranian government, is being denied access to counsel, according to her lawyer, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi . Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program...

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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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