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...subsequently arrested and faced additional charges for drugs and a gun possession. Minutes after his arrest, though, Coffee County police learned that the warrant in the neighboring town had been previously recalled. Herring argued that the drug and weapon charges should be inadmissable because the arrest was unlawful. The district court and appeals court denied his request to suppress the evidence. What's at Stake: The pertinent issue in Herring's case is whether evidence should be the excluded if it is obtained during an arrest precipitated by what seems to be correct information given by another law enforcement agency...
...Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft, claiming multiple civil rights violations including that the officials "designed, or at least approved of, a policy of segregating Arab and Muslim detainees from the general prison population until individually cleared of suspicion by the FBI." The U.S. District Court of New York dismissed most of his claims, which the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in June 2007. But the Appeals court also found the parts of Iqbal's argument alleging the involvement of Mueller and Ashcroft to be plausible. Among Iqbal's evidence: a memo from Ashcroft sent...
...national polls and Obama who was dealing with panic in his party. But McCain's campaign is now stuck playing defense. Over the weekend, his running mate, Sarah Palin, held a rally in Nebraska, a traditionally safe Republican state, but one where electoral votes are distributed by congressional district; Obama hopes to steal one such vote in the more liberal Omaha area. On Tuesday, Palin is scheduled to appear at a rally in North Carolina, another traditionally Republican region that Republicans once hoped they wouldn't have to invest time and resources into...
...collection of turquoise jewelry soon grew to include an array of rugs and pots as well, to the point that the only way she could continue buying art was to sell some of it. After opening a gallery in Albuquerque’s historic district in the 1960s, Bailey and her late husband, Wayne, began traveling to museums across the country to display their artwork. The Peabody was one of their first stops. Since then, Bailey has developed a following in Cambridge, according to Castle McLaughlin, the associate curator of Native American Ethnography at the Peabody Museum. Bailey said...
...This latest incident comes just as the district attorney’s office believes it has apprehended Somerville resident Sean Driscoll, the alleged Quincy House burglar who is accused of stealing a laptop from New Quincy last Saturday...