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...Jason Ewart, Davis's lawyer, has long argued that the courts have ignored new developments in the case, including the fact that seven of nine main witnesses recanted their testimony. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), a federal law passed in 1996 to limit appeals and expedite death sentences, forced federal courts to reject Davis's pleas on procedural grounds, said legal experts...
...months ago, Utku Koseoglu would spend his evenings playing football or maybe downing an Efes beer or two with friends at a waterside nightclub in one of the trendier parts of Istanbul. His reading ran to thrillers like The Da Vinci Code. But these days, the 27-year-old lawyer is more likely to be found hunched over a conference table in a cramped and sweaty office in Istanbul's hectic Kadikoy district, toiling late into the summer night writing blogs, collecting Web clippings and organizing marches. When he finds time for a book, it's the writings of Turkey...
...prostitution took place because the escorts who worked for her business were issued strict written instructions not to engage in illegal sexual activity. Indeed, Randall Tobias, the senior State Dept. official who admitted using the service and then resigned, has claimed that he only received "massage." Palfrey's lawyer says Vitter will be called as a witness to testify under oath in her court case...
José Félix Alegría Benítez was born on July 31, 1985. He is survived by father José E. Alegría, owner of OBRA Gallery in Old San Juan, mother Yolanda Benítez, a lawyer, and sister Carolina Alegría, an incoming freshman at Amherst College...
...reason for the rise in the divorce rate is that educated Indian women - or at least educated, middle-class women - now have the option. "Women don't want to lie down and take it anymore," says Julie George, a Pune-based lawyer in matrimonial cases. "There is a lot more independence, freedom. Women who work are financially independent and aren't prepared to put up with a husband who harasses them." While no one is suggesting that Rushdie was harassing Lakshmi in any way (Indian papers reported that she was seen partying with "another man" recently), the couple is splitting...