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...wife told police that he had attempted to push his then-17-year-old daughter out of a moving car on Dec. 18, 2006, according to the complaint. Counter was arrested and charged that day with domestic assault and battery but was later acquitted when the girl told the court that he had not tried to push her from...
...defendants—Macedo, Fulkerson, and Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy—asked the U.S. District Court to dismiss Counter’s complaint for failure to state a claim. In the motion, they argued they were not liable for the injuries Counter claimed, which include financial losses, humiliation, hypertension, high blood pressure, and depression...
...court in Ho Chi Minh City found a prominent Vietnamese human rights lawyer and three other pro-democracy activists guilty of trying to overthrow the government. Though the defendants avoided possible death sentences, the widely publicized trial, part of a broader recent crackdown on dissidents, is seen as a signal that Vietnam's communist leadership is growing increasingly intolerant of criticism of the regime...
...trial lasted just one day, and was closed to the public, though reporters were allowed to watch via closed-circuit television in a nearby room. Several family members said they were barred from the court. The panel of judges deliberated less than 30 minutes before announcing their decision. The charges and sentences actually took longer to read than to deliberate on, which Amnesty International said was evidence that they had been written in advance of the hearing, adding to the "mockery of justice...
...During the proceedings, Le Cong Dinh, a well-known U.S.-educated attorney, admitted that he had joined the banned Democratic Party of Vietnam and had called for multiparty democracy - a crime in Vietnam's single-party state. His other crime, according to the Ho Chi Minh City court, included attending a seminar on non-violent political change. Dinh is perhaps the most high-profile individual to ever be tried as a dissident in Vietnam. The former Fulbright scholar who studied law at Tulane University has represented several human rights activists, but he also successfully represented the state itself...