Word: murderes
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...Three of the Jackal Jackal trivia galore, from the murder trial in Paris...
...evidence against Pedro Miguel Gonzalez was strong. Three eyewitnesses said they saw him gun down U.S. Army Sergeant Zak Hernandez in 1992, days before a scheduled visit to Panama by President George Bush. The vehicle used in the shooting was found abandoned at the Gonzalez family ranch, the alleged murder weapon buried at Gonzalez's sister's workplace. Nevertheless, on Nov. 1, after years of delay and controversy, a jury found Gonzalez, the son of the head of Panama's ruling party, innocent of murder, setting off an explosion of indignation. In a replay of the rhetorical battles that marked...
...state's supreme court--a majority--supported Condon's assertion. The court thus became the first in the U.S. to rule that a viable fetus could be considered "a person" under child-abuse laws and that a pregnant woman carrying it could be charged with doing harm, even with murder. Similar arguments were earlier rejected by five other state supreme courts and a handful of lower courts across the country, but that did not deter Condon, a Republican rising star whose career has been stoked by such battles. Says he: "This decision is much more in line with American culture...
That's no small feat. For the Amistad was eventually taken into custody by a U.S. Navy vessel, and the mutineers charged with murder, threatened with a return to slavery and forced to stand trial three times before they were freed by a Supreme Court decision. Worse, their case became a playground for special interests: abolitionists not at all certain their cause wouldn't be better served if they allowed the blacks to be martyred; a President, Martin Van Buren, running for re-election and trying to appease the slave states by suborning justice; Spain's child Queen furious over...
PARIS: Carlos the Jackal calls his murder trial a "judicial farce." Indeed, the anti-Bond seems intent on engineering just that result. In court Monday...