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Flynn said she would like to work for a government agency but had been particularly interested in JAG because it emphasizes courtroom experience early...
...small religious communities and help entrench the dominant position of the Orthodox Church. The bill banned organized prayer by groups of less than 20 people and prohibited religious communities that have been in Belarus for less than 20 years from publishing literature or setting up missions. MIDDLE EAST Courtroom Rage Scuffles broke out in court between the families of Israeli victims of terrorist attacks and Palestinian spectators at the trial of Marwan Barghouti. Israel accuses Barghouti, head of Yas-ser Arafat's Fatah faction in the West Bank, of leading a militia that allegedly murdered 26 Israelis. A woman whose...
Gomes sat in the back right corner of the courtroom with his lawyer, parents and two other relatives. Pomey sat three rows in front of him flanked on the right by her two lawyers and on the left by her father...
...plight of the indicted masses? Not likely. Suffice it to say that the conservative media baron-turned-politician empathizes with the accused. The two-and-a-half-year-long trial against Berlusconi and his associates for allegedly bribing Rome judges in the mid-'80s returned to a Milan courtroom last Saturday. As usual, the defendant was not physically present. That doesn't mean he wasn't busy on the case. The Prime Minister had a two-hour meeting on Thursday with Gaetano Pecorella, a lawyer and legislator who divides his time between defending Berlusconi in the Milan case and chairing...
Legal theatrics veered toward tragedy in another Paris courtroom last week, as an appellate tribunal freed convicted war criminal Maurice Papon from jail. The ruling - based on a new law allowing aged or ill inmates to be released if imprisonment is judged a threat to their lives - sparked widespread shock and protests. Papon was found guilty in 1998 of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in the deportation of 1,690 Jews to Nazi death camps during the German occupation of France. Despite his well-known activities in the collaborationist Vichy regime, Papon escaped punishment after...