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CONFESSED. JOHN COUEY, 46, convicted sex offender; to the abduction and murder of third-grader Jessica Lunsford, whose body was afterward found 150 yards from the home in Homosassa, Fla., where she lived with her father and grandparents, ending a highly publicized search; in Augusta, Ga. Arrested on a parole violation earlier in the week, Couey admitted the crime after taking a lie-detector test...
ACQUITTED. ROBERT BLAKE, 71, former tough-guy actor; of the 2001 murder of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, who was shot in the head as she sat in Blake's car near a restaurant where the pair had just eaten; after a three-month trial in which Blake did not testify; in Van Nuys, Calif. Jury foreman Thomas Nicholson called the circumstantial evidence "flimsy" and said prosecutors, who relied heavily on testimony from two Hollywood stuntmen with histories of drug abuse, "couldn't put the gun in his hand...
TIME reported on the murder charges brought against Marine 2nd Lieut. Ilario Pantano for shooting two Iraqis near Baghdad in what Pantano says was self-defense [March 7]. I pose two questions: If the two Iraqis had detonated explosives, killing Pantano's men but not Pantano, would he be prosecuted for dereliction of duty for not preventing the explosion and the casualties? Or if the Iraqis had detonated explosives, killing Pantano, his men and themselves, would the government honor him as a hero and adorn his coffin with medals? Leaders like Pantano are supposed to be decisive. He made...
Ensuring that the military rules of engagement are enforced is both necessary and honorable. Charging combat troops with premeditated murder when mistakes are made under duress defies the logic of self-defense during warfare...
...peace negotiations with the other parties to the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Adams told TIME that he supports the "objective of bringing an end to all armed groups," but he would not commit to a specific date. "I don't think pressure works," he says. He condemns McCartney's murder but says the I.R.A. was not responsible for it: "Mr. Robert McCartney was killed by individuals--he was not killed by any armed organization; he was not killed in any operation authorized by any armed organization...