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...across the continent newspapers challenged the U.S. view that the captives fall outside of the Geneva Convention. Britain's Guardian contests the U.S. contention that the men are "unlawful combatants" with a careful reading of the Geneva Convention. And the point is echoed by Richard Goldstone, the respected international jurist and former chief prosecutor of the Hague tribunal. "Either they're prisoners of war, in which case they are entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention," says Goldstone. "(Or) if they're not prisoners of war, they are common criminals and they should be brought to trial...
...Next up to the plate is Judge Melinda Harmon, the Houston jurist whose most recently famous for her July decision to imprison crime writer Vanessa Leggett when she refused to turn over notes to the feds in a Houston murder case. Harmon, a Radcliffe grad who got her law degree at the University of Texas at Austin, had Leggett imprisoned for more than five months without bail. The writer got out of jail only this month...
...regression, its citizens engulfed in either depression, anxiety, nationalistic fervor or some combination of all three. Palestinian militants, encouraged or at least not checked by the PA, have made sure that most Israelis completely forget that peace ever had any positive bearing on their lives. To paraphrase a famous jurist, the life of peace has never been logic; it has been experience. In other words, a peace process can only be understood and evaluated in terms of its payoff. Without internalizing this simple insight, both sides seem destined to remain locked in their macabre dance for the foreseeable future...
...bomb, at Geary Lake in Kansas the day before the bombing helped save Nichols from the death penalty, because jurors couldn't be certain that someone else wasn't involved. That matters because--as Judge Matsch reminded the government before the 1997 McVeigh trial, over which the jurist presided--"nonprosecution of equally culpable participants" may be a mitigating factor that helps a defendant avoid capital punishment. "Anything tending to show involvement of persons other than or in addition to Timothy McVeigh may be material to his defense." In interviews since his conviction, McVeigh has admitted carrying out the bombing...
...Ashcroft hearings also have been about this nexus between private behavior and public virtue. No one is claiming that Ashcroft himself is anything but a paragon of virtue in his private life. Judge Ronnie White, the black jurist blocked by Ashcroft from ascending the judicial ladder, says that he does not believe the man is a racist. But at some level, what irks Ashcroft's critics is that there is some discrepancy between his private virtue and his public life. He preaches tolerance in private but may not practice it in public. He preaches love of his fellow...