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Shouldn't high crimes and misdemeanors at least be crimes in the criminal code? Once again, no: impeachment is a political, not a criminal, process, designed to remove officials who abuse their powers. Law professors use an example: if a Senator moves to the Bahamas and refuses to return, she isn't committing a crime, but she is abusing her office. Conversely, if she shoplifts from the Georgetown Gap, we probably shouldn't impeach her for such a petty crime. Says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe: "The criminal process typically serves [to impose] punishment. Impeachment is a prophylactic device...
...night of Jan. 29, after the victim was struck across the face and raped, her suitemates found her crying in the bathroom and took her to University Health Services (UHS). She reported the crime to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and then decided to press charges...
CONVICTED. JEAN-PAUL AKAYESU, an ex-mayor from central Rwanda; of genocide; by a U.N. tribunal in Tanzania. It is the first such verdict by an international court. Former Rwandan Prime Minister JEAN KAMBANDA, who pleaded guilty to the crime, was sentenced to life in prison...
Last Friday, Chicago prosecutors dropped the murder charges against the two boys, citing a crime-laboratory report that confirmed that semen was found on Ryan's underpants. "I was concerned about this confession from the start," says Cook County public guardian Patrick Murphy. "You're worried about kids this young saying anything. It's not like they were scared into--or coerced, or that the police said that the boogeyman is going to get you. They'd just say anything to get out of the room." One report had the boys agreeing to confess after being offered Big Macs...
...RAED ABU-SULTAN were killed by firing squad in Gaza City after being convicted of murdering another pair of brothers, MAJDI and MOHAMED AL-KHALDI, on a Gaza street. Their trial, in a secretive military court, took half an hour, and they were executed within 48 hours of the crime. The two families had quarreled after a different member of the Abu-Sultan clan was accused of gesturing inappropriately at an Al-Khaldi relative. Police say the family of the condemned men took out the ad in order to prevent reprisals from the Al-Khaldis, who had targeted...