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News Former Cendant chairman sentenced to 12 years for 1990s accounting fraud
Former Cendant chairman sentenced to 12 years for 1990s accounting fraud
Melissa Bancroft
January 17, 2007 07:19:00 pm

Walter Forbes, former Chairman of Cendant Corp. , the huge New York-based company that owns Ramada, Howard Johnson, Avis, Coldwell Banker and Century 21, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years and seven months in prison pursuant to a...

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Japan considers expanding rules on arms use in peacekeeping operations
Melissa Bancroft
January 14, 2007 06:15:00 pm

The Japanese government is considering expanding the ability of Japan's Self Defense Forces to use arms in peacekeeping operations in ways that exceed the scope of self-defense, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Sunday. If the revisions are enacted,...

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News Italy military court convicts former Nazis for 1944 civilian massacre
Italy military court convicts former Nazis for 1944 civilian massacre
Melissa Bancroft
January 13, 2007 05:19:00 pm

An Italian military court Saturday convicted 10 former SS soldiers and acquitted 7 others in the 1944 killing of more than 700 people in Marzabotto , a small town in nothern Iraly. The slaughter,...

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US prosecutors open criminal probe of Apple stock option backdating
Melissa Bancroft
January 13, 2007 04:00:00 pm

The US Attorney's office in San Francisco said Friday it is conducting a criminal probe into the option backdating practices of Apple Inc. , and specifically an option grant given to CEO Steve Jobs in 2001 which was...

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Blair breaks silence on ‘completely wrong’ Saddam hanging
Melissa Bancroft
January 7, 2007 05:31:00 pm

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair , a staunch supporter of President Bush's Iraq policy, broke a week-long silence on the circumstances of the hanging of Saddam Hussein Sunday, saying through a spokesperson that the...

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Nepal high court wants review of judiciary role in interim constitution
Melissa Bancroft
January 7, 2007 04:51:00 pm

The Nepal Supreme Court decided Sunday to ask that the country's government revisit twelve separate portions of the temporary constitution on the country's judicial branch. The court's concern stems from the document's...

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Myanmar grants amnesty to nearly 3,000 prison inmates
Melissa Bancroft
January 4, 2007 04:46:00 pm

Government officials in Myanmar have granted amnesty to nearly three thousand prisoners, releasing them early in celebration of the country's Independence Day Thursday. Some 20 political prisoners were among the 2,831 released because their...

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Miers resigns as White House legal counsel
Melissa Bancroft
January 4, 2007 04:09:00 pm

White House legal counsel Harriet Miers resigned from her post Thursday effective January 31. Press Secretary Tony Snow gave no specific reason for her departure except to say that she has been working at...

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Chile court drops tax evasion charges against Pinochet relatives
Melissa Bancroft
January 4, 2007 03:28:00 pm

A Chilean appeals court has dropped tax evasion charges against the widow and two children of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet . In a decision Wednesday, the Santiago Court of Appeals ...

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Libby prosecutor not anticipating privilege claims by government witnesses
Melissa Bancroft
December 16, 2006 10:52:00 am

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicated Friday in court papers that he was "not aware" that any government witnesses in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby intended to invoke executive privilege to...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

James Earl Ray sentenced for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.. Ray died in 1998, still seeking a retrial of his case. On December 9th, 1999, a Memphis jury handed down a verdict agreeing with the King family that the 1968 assassination of the civil rights leader was a conspiracy rather than the act of a lone gunman.

Gandhi arrested for sedition

On March 10, 1922, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition for leading a campaign of mass civil disobedience against the British in India. He was then convicted and sentenced to six years in prison. After his release, Gandhi continued to build Indian unity and use civil disobedience and non-cooperation to oppose British rule in his country, culminating in the Salt March of 1930 and eventual Indian independence in 1947. Learn more about Mahatma Gandhi from the government of India.

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