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Citing discrepancies in circumstantial evidence, Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz questioned yesterday the integrity of a murder conviction lodged against his most recent client, a New York woman accused of hiring her cousin to kill her estranged husband...
Mazoltuv Borukhova, a Queens doctor, was convicted in March of first-degree murder after her cousin, Mikhail Mallayev, shot and killed her husband execution style in front of their 4-year-old daughter in a playground. In the midst of a heated custody dispute, Borukhova allegedly lured her husband to the playground where she had hired Mallayev to carry out the murder...
...prosecution’s case largely rested on phone records logging contact between Borukhova and Mallayev in the days leading up to the murder. Dershowitz questioned the content of those conversations yesterday, saying there was no proof that Borukhova directed Mallayev to kill her husband in those phone calls...
...grooming a successor, members of Guinea's military junta reportedly drew lots to decide who would become the nation's next leader. On Dec. 23, Camara's soldiers broke down the doors of the state TV station and broadcast that he was dissolving the constitution. (Read "A Big Double Murder Jolts Africa's Cocaine...
...dunce hat, accusations of racism were being thrown at the GOP. True, racism has been associated within far-right sects of the Republican population, and it should not be tolerated. However, this is not representative of the Republican Party as a whole. Think, for example of the recent murder of abortion protestor James Pouillon of Michigan. Violence, as expected, draws emotional responses. Should the GOP start labeling liberal activists as nothing but estranged murderers? If Republicans should follow precedent from Democrats in terms of generating disrespect against the government, as Syed claims they should, then the results would...