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Investors may be jittery, having watched a number of mortgage REITs, such as New Century Financial Corp. and American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the past couple of years, and others, such as Arbor Realty Trust and Gramercy Capital, struggling to stay afloat. Even Starwood's newest offering could stir concerns if investors check out the sour performance of one of Sternlicht's previous specialty finance companies, iStar Financial...
...outcry followed. "This execution proceeded because the highest criminal court couldn't be bothered to stay an extra 20 minutes on the night of an execution," Andrea Keilen, executive director of Texas Defender Service, told ABC News in 2007. Not only did Texas defense attorneys quickly file complaints with the state's judicial oversight commission, in an unprecedented move, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers joined the filing. Newspapers across the state and nation weighed in with scathing editorials, and anti-death penalty campaigns went on the attack. The Texas Moratorium Network set up sharonkiller.com...
...Keller is expected to put up a fight, even though she has been silent thus far on the upcoming trial. In a written response to the charges, she derided the defense attorneys' claims that computer trouble delayed their paperwork: "It did not take a computer to prepare and timely file ... it could have been handwritten and the court would have accepted it as Judge Keller informed the Commission...
...political temperature. Muhlenberg College political scientist Chris Borick says Sestak may be tapping into the grass-roots mood. Specter "is a Democrat by necessity," Borick says, "not a Democrat by choice. Joe Sestak is by choice. I think that's powerful in a primary." (Read about what rank-and-file Democrats think of Specter's defection...
...While wryly acknowledging Nesson's appeal, calling him an "eloquent speaker," RIAA attorney Timothy M. Reynolds argued that the "size and scope" of Tenenbaum's file-sharing constituted a willful violation of copyright laws, referring to him throughout the closing statement as simply "the defendant...