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...White House has also condemned the killing, calling it "especially shocking" that it happened a week after President Barack Obama met with activists, including those from Memorial, in Moscow. "Such a heinous crime sends a chilling signal to Russian civil society and the international community, and illustrates the tragic deterioration of security and the rule of law in the North Caucasus over the last several months," said White House National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer in a statement. (See pictures of Obama in Russia...
...Jackson may have continued to abuse, are covered by the Federal Controlled Substances Act - and their misuse can carry criminal penalties of up to 40 years in prison, says Rosenbluth. However, she cautions that sentencing is determined by many factors, such as the amount of the drug, whether the crime was a first offense and whether the administration of such drugs led to death. "Certainly the penalties are more severe if death occurred. Generally people who are first-time offenders though don't get anywhere near the statutory maximum," says Rosenbluth...
...convictions in high-profile criminal cases. But that's exactly what French justice officials are now doing, arguing that sentences handed out to several members of a gang that tortured a young Jewish man to death on the outskirts of Paris were insufficient punishment for their barbarous anti-Semitic crime...
...gang's belief that all Jews are rich. The group had tried to abduct two other Jewish men before ensnaring Halimi - a focus that, along with Fofana's outrageous baiting of Halimi's family during the trial - led French public opinion to belatedly agree with Jewish groups that the crime had been anti-Semitic in nature...
...brutality of the murder and serve as a warning that anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in France. They also want the new trial to be held in public and not behind closed doors as the first one was. Under French law, when someone accused of committing a crime as a minor - as was the case with one member of the "Gang of Barbarians" - the hearings are closed to the press and public to protect the defendant's identity. Officials have yet to say whether they'll move for the new trial to be opened up. (Read "Germany Confronts...