Word: conviction
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...suspect simple; fair and open trial is the only ethical way to deal with criminals, no matter how much pain and suffering they manage to cause. Israel should have arrested him and tried him in a court of law—enough evidence was out there to convict Yassin fairly. In this way, Israel could have removed him from the Hamas chain of command without losing its moral high ground as a peaceful, law-abiding nation attempting to defend its citizens...
Most Ludicrously Written Role: Perhaps this year’s tightest race, victory in this category ultimately goes to Annabeth Marcus, the seemingly unimportant wife of Sean Penn’s ex-convict in Mystic River. Laura Linney gives a solid if peripheral performance all the way up to what seems to be the film’s conclusion. But then, in one of the strangest bedroom scenes ever put on film, Linney suddenly undergoes a character transformation so unexpected as to almost totally undermine the rest of the movie. The academy surely wasn’t thinking about this...
...once said that being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict...
THIS JUNE MARKS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE O.J. SIMPSON CASE. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE CASE MEANS A DECADE LATER? Here's one celebrity who went on trial with adequate counsel against a prosecution that spent about $10 million to convict him. It points out that if a defendant has adequate resources, he can fight a battle on the presumption of innocence...
...deport foreign militants following arrests for relatively minor offenses. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is thinking about extending the same approach to newly naturalized suspects, based on a year-long requirement of "crime-free" conduct after becoming French. Suspected Beghal operative Kamel Daoudi, originally Algerian, is a candidate: if convicted, he could serve his sentence, be stripped of his French citizenship and deported back to Algeria - which has been known to torture jihadists. In Italy, following tougher laws passed in 2001, the number of Islamic terrorists arrested has climbed from 33 in 2001 to 64 in 2002 and 71 last year...