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...admit that the Astor Place activism got out of hand. A force of citizen militia was called for Macready's next performance, on May 10. An immense crowd gathered outside the theater, as many as ten thousand people. The militia fired warning shots in the air, and then panicked and fired into the crowd. Twenty-two people were killed and fifty were wounded. That's a fairly large butcher's bill to pay for a dispute over interpretations of Shakespeare...
...Kennedy, called this "one of the most important Fourth Amendment cases in years" because of its relative breadth. Search-and-seizure cases are for the most part a motley, fact-specific bunch. The 1967 decision in Katz v. U.S. was seminal, establishing a standard - albeit squishy - of whether a citizen had a reasonable expectation of privacy when government intrusion occurred. That case involved a bookmaker's use of a public telephone, which was bugged - unconstitutional, said the Court. In another case the civil liberties crowd liked, the Court ruled in 1984 that federal agents couldn't put a beeper...
...drug cops were encouraged by the extradition last month of one of the cartel's top bosses, distribution maestro Everardo (Kiti) Paez Martinez, whom Mexican police had arrested nearly four years ago. The extradition--the first ever of a Mexican citizen to the U.S.--caused celebration among jaded U.S. agents because Paez is a potential gold mine of cartel intelligence. Coming one year after the arrest of Ramon's partner in gore, Ismael Higuera Guerrero, who carried a special knife for his stylized mutilations, the Paez extradition makes it harder for the Arellano brothers to circulate freely through the streets...
Other councillors felt the measure may hurt a pending effort to allow non-citizen immigrants to vote in school committee elections...
SENTENCED. SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM, 62, sociology professor at the American University in Cairo and Egypt's best-known democracy advocate; to seven years in prison for defaming that country; in Cairo. The government claimed that Ibrahim, also a U.S. citizen, smeared the country by alleging election fraud and discrimination against Christians. The harsh verdict appalled democracy supporters, and the U.S. State Department said it was "deeply troubled...