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...federal government assumed jurisdictionof the case, and both now face charges ofobstructing interstate commerce through robbery,and using firearms during the robbery. Both are infederal custody, and their trial in U.S. DistrictCourt is set to start early next month...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Third Square Robbery Suspect Is Identified | 5/24/1995 | See Source »

...well as the charge of homicide, Carter facesfour counts of assault with intent to murder. Heis being held at Cambridge police headquarterspending arraignment today in Cambridge DistrictCourt...

Author: By Wendy M. Seltzer, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Driver Killed in Central Sq. | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...amendment to the Georgia constitution stipulating that no-majority gubernatorial elections be decided in the legislature. Similar provisions are now in effect in only two other states, Mississippi and Vermont, and no legislature has legally elected a governor since New Hampshire did so in 1913. Overruling a federal-districtcourt decision, the high court also rejected the view of dissenting Justice William O. Douglas that a legislature should not make the final choice "when the election has been entrusted to the people." Despite the fact that the Georgia assembly is malapportioned, said Justice Hugo Black's majority opinion, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Up to the Legislature | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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