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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled yesterday to uphold the decision of a lower-court judge to grant a retrial in the high-profile case of Alexander Pring-Wilson, a former Harvard graduate student who was convicted in 2004 of fatally stabbing a Cambridge teenager...
...WILLIAMS V. PRICE (2003) Alito's decision overturned a lower-court ruling that denied a new hearing for Ronald Williams, a defendant convicted of first-degree murder, even after a juror was overheard making a racist remark immediately after the trial. Alito reasoned that the comment, made outside the jury room, had not been justifiably excluded from consideration by the lower court. Alito's opinion granted Williams the right to argue that his imprisonment had been unlawful...
...Case for Press Freedom TIME inc. has asked the U.S. supreme Court to review lower-court decisions and rule that TIME's White House correspondent Matthew Cooper not be jailed for refusing to disclose confidential sources [May 23]. I commend you for standing up to government interference and coercion. Each day our rights as Americans are slowly being eroded while, for the most part, people sit by and let it happen. Please don't give up and don't give in. There are many people who support TIME and Cooper. Daniel Silva Newark, New Jersey...
Time Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower-court decisions and rule that TIME'S White House correspondent Matthew Cooper not be jailed for refusing to disclose confidential sources [May 23]. I commend you for standing up to government interference and coercion. Each day our rights as Americans are slowly being eroded while, for the most part, people sit by and let it happen. Please don't give up and don't give in. There are many people who support TIME and Cooper...
...facing new challenges. If the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington does not overturn a lower-court ruling that RIM violated patents held by a rival, the company could be barred from selling in the U.S. And Lazaridis has to worry that his licensees might kill his hardware business--although, even if they do, RIM still has a healthy software and services business, which brings in close to one-third of its revenues. BlackBerry's success has made Lazaridis wealthy enough to donate more than $100 million to his other passion--quantum computing research--at the University of Waterloo, where...