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With its dark wood benches, plush blue carpeting and rich ornamental details, the second-floor courtroom of the U.S. District Court in Paducah, Ky., is half a world away from Iraq's hardscrabble Triangle of Death. But in a trial that opened here on Monday, Steven Green, a former private first class from the 101st Airborne Division, stands accused of crimes committed there, one the worst atrocities believed to have been carried out by U.S. forces during...
...designed to close the loophole that enabled military contractors or the spouses of servicemen and servicewomen to escape punishment for crimes committed abroad. Green's lawyers (as well as several military-law experts) have maintained that MEJA was never intended to cover cases like his, but, in August, U.S. District Judge Thomas Russell upheld its constitutionality. Green has offered to re-enlist in the Army and face a court-martial, but that request has also been denied...
...appointed Philadelphia's assistant district attorney in 1959 after spending his first three years in private practice. Left the district attorney's office in 1963 to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as an assistant counsel on the Warren Commission. Became a household name as the Commission's chief architect and a vocal defender of the group's theory that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone...
...Following the Warren Commission, Specter joined the Pennsylvania Department of Justice as a special assistant attorney general and, in 1965, he ran against his former boss to become the Philadelphia District Attorney (Though he was a registered Democrat, he ran on the Republican ticket when he failed to secure the Democratic nomination...
...vast main hall of Rainbow City's community center. The talk centered on how to bring jobs to Alabama's economically depressed northeastern corner, bolstering parental responsibility, making college more affordable, and, simply, hope. Five months earlier, Davis won reelection to a fourth term representing Alabama's 7th Congressional district, which includes the hub of the state's once-robust cotton industry. Now, he has begun his campaign to win the governor's office in Alabama in 2010 - and to usher in a Democratic revival in the South...