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...lawyer, Jeffrey T. Karp. Campbell has denied any connection to the incident or involvement in dealing drugs to Harvard students, Karp said. Two female Harvard students allowed the victim, 21-year-old Cambridge resident Justin Cosby, and three others involved in the incident to enter Kirkland, according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone, Jr. ’85. Last Friday, New York songwriter Jabrai J. Copney, 20, pled not guilty to charges of first-degree murder for the May 18 shooting in Kirkland J-entryway that led to Cosby’s death early the next morning. Copney, along...
...have had the privilege of serving as a federal District Court trial judge, and am now serving as a federal Appellate Circuit Court judge...
...also didn't hurt that she's been through the Senate confirmation process twice before - as George H.W. Bush's nominee to the Southern District Court of New York in 1992 and Bill Clinton's to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1998. The White House official notes that Orrin Hatch - the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as the chamber's most influential GOP voice on judicial nominations - voted for Sotomayor both times. (See TIME's photo-essay on Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination...
...little in the way of a record of past rulings that people called him "the stealth nominee." There's no such problem with Sonia Sotomayor, the woman Barack Obama just chose to replace Souter on the court. The same President Bush picked her to be a federal district judge in 1991, just a year after he elevated Souter, so she will come to her confirmation hearings not just as the child of Puerto Rican parents who went from public housing to Princeton, but also as a judge with a nearly 17-year paper trail of decisions...
...bigger names and numbers. She was wrapped in a blanket inside a particle-board coffin and loaded into the trunk of the Toyota where her brother sat next to her remains for the long drive back. Within hours, another deadly U.S. air strike in Farah's Bala Boluk district would kill scores of civilians and reverberate from Kabul to Washington. Criticized around the world and beset by demonstrations in Afghanistan, the U.S. military continues to dispute the high death-toll estimates in Bola Boluk. But even so, it is low-key tragedies like Benafsha's that are adding...