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...overtaken in the home straight to take fourth in each. The British runner was, though, successful off the track - winning world half-marathon and cross-country titles for the past two years. This year her track results changed. Radcliffe won gold in 5,000 m at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester last July, and followed that a little over a week later at the European championships in Munich by setting a new European record for 10,000 m: 30.01.09, crossing the finish line some 300 m ahead of her nearest rival. "I always knew I could win," she says...
...Bedrosian argued that although Brandano allows a judge to reject a guilty plea, an Aug. 23 decision by the Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth v. Tim T., said a judge could not do so over the objections of the Commonwealth...
...Commonwealth did object in Gomes and Pomey’s case, but the defendants’ lawyers argued that Tim T. should not apply...
Although Brandano did raise the constitutional question of whether a judge had the authority to dismiss a case over the objections of the Commonwealth, Agnes said that Tim T. did not answer that question...
Agnes said that judicial dismissals of criminal prosecutions over the objection of the Commonwealth are lawful if they meet three conditions: when required by the interests of justice, following an adversarial proceeding and in circumstances in which the Commonwealth may appeal...