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...home is his castle, even if home is a park bench or a cardboard box under a highway bridge. And a man's possessions, like his home, are protected by the Constitution from unlawful searches. That was the thrust of a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling last week that ordered a new trial for David Mooney, a homeless man charged with murder because his property -- a duffel bag and a box stashed under a ramp leading onto Interstate 91 in New Haven -- had been searched by police without a warrant. "His duffel bag was luggage," observes criminal-law professor Lloyd Weinreb...
...groups--the CRT and the Watershed Association--are taking legal action principally to block Scheme Z, the highly controversial design for a mammoth 11-story, 16-lane highway interchange over the Charles River in East Cambridge...
...charging the Commonwealth with violating Massachusetts environmental policy standards with its designs for Scheme Z and other sections of the state's portion of the interstate highway system, said Rob J. Garrity, a CRT director. The group filed suit against the state Department of Public Works (DPW) yesterday...
...listen to young Jabar and Hussein, privates in the Iraqi army, was to know the story of their country last week. A bag of spoiled dates -- "food for cattle," Hussein called it -- was their only sustenance as they plodded down a rain-sodden highway littered with ravaged tanks in southern Iraq. They had come from Basra, where a popular uprising against Saddam Hussein's government was under way. At one point in the fighting, Jabar and Hussein shed their uniforms and joined the revolt, but they grew fainthearted when loyalist troops began shelling rebel positions. "We are for the people...
...plight of Iraqis who lived in Kuwait before the war and who are now trying to return to Kuwait is even more desperate. Men, women and children are encamped near the border highway. U.S. soldiers have given them rations, but they have no water. On a cold, rainy night last week, the Iraqis huddled around campfires. The horizon was lit by the flames of the burning oil fields. In her tattooed hands, Fadiyah Saad held her new granddaughter, born by the roadside on March 5. The family was debating whether to name the child Hudud (borders) or Istiqlal (independence...