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News Blagojevich pleads not guilty to corruption charges
Blagojevich pleads not guilty to corruption charges
Safiya Boucaud
April 14, 2009 03:38:00 pm

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich pleaded not guilty to corruption charges Tuesday before the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois . Earlier this month, Blagojevich was indicted on 16 felony...

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News US Army sergeant pleads not guilty to killing Iraq detainees
US Army sergeant pleads not guilty to killing Iraq detainees
Safiya Boucaud
April 13, 2009 11:58:00 am

US Army Sgt. John Hatley entered a plea of not guilty to murder charges at his court-martial on Monday for the killing of four unarmed Iraqi prisoners in 2007. Hatley, along with Sgt. Michael...

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News Iraq court reduces sentence of shoe-throwing journalist
Iraq court reduces sentence of shoe-throwing journalist
Safiya Boucaud
April 8, 2009 07:10:00 am

A federal appeals court in Baghdad on Tuesday reduced the sentence for the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush from three years to one year. Lawyers for Muntadar...

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News ICTY dismisses Karadzic ‘immunity’ appeal
ICTY dismisses Karadzic ‘immunity’ appeal
Safiya Boucaud
April 7, 2009 03:50:00 pm

The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday dismissed the appeal of former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic , in...

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News Supreme Court declines to review Mumia conviction
Supreme Court declines to review Mumia conviction
Safiya Boucaud
April 6, 2009 03:50:00 pm

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal v. Beard . The Court offered no explanation for their refusal to hear the appeal of journalist and...

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Obama nominates Yale law dean to be State Department legal adviser
Safiya Boucaud
March 24, 2009 09:36:00 am

US President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh to be legal adviser to the Department of State (DOS) . Koh...

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Singapore parliament passes bill permitting political films
Safiya Boucaud
March 23, 2009 03:49:00 pm

The Singapore Parliament amended the Films Act Monday to allow for the broadcast of certain types of previously banned films featuring politicians or political parties. The amendment will allow political events to be recorded...

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News ICTY reduces former Serb leader’s sentence
ICTY reduces former Serb leader’s sentence
Safiya Boucaud
March 17, 2009 03:37:00 pm

The appellate chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday partially reversed the conviction and reduced the sentence of former Bosnian Serb parliamentary leader Momcilo Krajisnik [ICTY...

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Obama to limit scope of presidential signing statements
Safiya Boucaud
March 10, 2009 05:05:00 pm

US President Barack Obama issued a memorandum Monday that proposes to limit the use of attaching presidential signing statements which raise constitutional or other legal questions before bills are signed into law. The...

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Spain judicial body investigating terrorism judge Garzon
Safiya Boucaud
March 10, 2009 02:18:00 pm

Spain's General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) on Tuesday said that there will be an investigation into the failure of Judge Baltasar Garzon to report his earnings while on sabbatical...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies

On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs. Learn more about the persecution of the Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.

Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador by a right-wing death squad. Romero had become unpopular with conservative elements in the country when he began speaking out against government repression of the nation's poor and of his fellow priests. Read a biography of Archbishop Óscar Romero from the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University. In 2003, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), an American human-rights organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Salvadorean Air Force Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia for his alleged role in the assassination of Archbishop Romero. The suit was filed in a US federal district court under the Alien Tort Claim Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350). In Doe v. Rafael Saravia, the defendant was found guilty of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killing, resulting in a $10 million judgment against Saravia. Read a description of the case. Romero was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2018.

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