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...Einhorn has been extradited to the United States after a four-year battle. The counterculture guru and notorious fugitive arrived in Friday morning in Philadelphia, where he faces a retrial ? he was convicted in absentia in 1993 of the brutal 1977 murder of his girlfriend...
...lemon meringue and chocolate!) is very much its own thing. But there are differences of color and shape that save the serried ranks of piedom from monotony, and you are drawn into the small but clear discriminations that make an interesting painting. You end up thanking Thiebaud, in absentia, for reminding you how various and plural the world really...
...Algerian Muslim militant alleged to have played a leading role in the "millennium bomb" plot in the U.S.; in Algiers. Dahoumane is accused of helping make bombs intended to explode at various West Coast cities at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999. He had been indicted in absentia along with three alleged accomplices, who are currently on trial in Los Angeles. CLEARED. TAKESHI ABE, 84, former head of internal medicine and vice president of Teikyo University Hospital, of professional negligence for allowing a patient to be treated with HIV-infected untreated blood products in 1985; in Tokyo. The judge...
...security police that cooperated with the Nazis during World War II, of genocide for his role in handing over Jews to German death squads; in Vilnius,Lithuania. Gimzauskas, a former U.S. citizen who was deputy head of the Vilnius police, was not sentenced as he had been tried in absentia due to ill health. His conviction is the first time that a Lithuanian court has confirmed that its own police forces collaborated in the Final Solution, in which 90% of Lithuania's Jewish population died...
CHARGED IN ABSENTIA. ROBERT TULLOCH, 17, and JAMES PARKER, 16, as adults with first-degree murder for the January stabbing deaths of husband-and-wife Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop in their secluded home; in Concord, N.H. Warrants were issued for the teens' arrest. At a weekend news conference, authorities warned that the pair should be considered dangerous and refused to comment on a motive...