Word: convicted
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...before the court in July when a Berlin judge suspended proceedings against Werner Grossmann, Wolf's successor as chief of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, the foreign-intelligence department of the Stasi secret police. It would be a violation of the German constitutional guarantee of equal treatment, the judge contended, to convict an eastern German spy for something that western German spies continue to do legally. Both a former chief of West German intelligence and a former Constitutional Court judge have echoed that argument; a ruling by the court is expected by January...
...dead girl's femur. Then they obtained DNA from blood samples donated by the couple believed to be her parents. Using a PCR machine as their microscope, they went on to magnify and examine the unique genetic markers the dead girl shared with her parents. The evidence helped to convict two men of the crime earlier this year...
Scum begins in Warsaw. Max Barabander is a godless, physically impressive, womanizing ex-convict whose mid-life crisis leads him to abandon respectability in Argentina for the impoverished streets of his youth. At 47, his life has been completely disrupted. Max's only son has died, and he and his wife Rochelle find themselves haunted by a newly-discovered consciousness of their own frailty...
...Save the Queen." Following is Trial By Jury, a short musical which takes an amusing look at divorce court. Angelina (Jenny Giering) takes her lover Edwin to trial for falling in love with another woman. The jurors, beguiled by Angelina's beauty, immediately become biased and prepare to convict Edwin. But before they seal his fate, the judge comes to the rescue with a solution that makes all parties happy...
...informant. On the basis of his talks with Sarivola, as well as a second admission that he made to Sarivola's fiance after both men were freed, Fulminante was brought back to Arizona, where he was tried, found guilty of the girl's killing and sentenced to death. His conviction was overturned by the Arizona Supreme Court, which held that his confession was coerced because it was made under the pressure of a plausible threat of violence. Ironically, despite its ruling that forced confessions could be harmless in some circumstances, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Arizona to give Fulminante...