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...facts of the situation are still unclear, the final violence in Jena seems to stem from an incident in August 2006 in which white students placed nooses on a schoolyard tree after black students had the audacity to sit under it. The fact that neither the local prosecutor nor the federal district attorney could find statutes that such an dastardly and hate-filled act of intimidation violated points to a major problem with federal and local hate crime statutes...
...prosecution, for its part, defended the disorderly conduct statute. "This statute keeps us within the bounds of a civilized society," said prosecutor Christopher Renz. At the same time, the prosecution upheld the actions of the Metropolitan Airports Commission security officers in conducting sting operations in restroom stalls...
Nevertheless, Joseph Daly, a Hamline Law School professor who has tried cases in front of Porter as a Hennepin County prosecutor and sometimes invites the judge to speak for his litigation classes, says that the tough going for the defense may not be indicative of what Porter really thinks of the case. Daly says that Porter is the kind of judge who "might say this case was so weak from the beginning, he might let it go to trial." The judge is expected to decide on the merits of going forward by next week...
...results set up a race that pits Gregory J. Glennon, a 32-year-old prosecutor, against Mark S. Ciommo, a lifelong resident who received the backing of 10 of Boston’s labor unions...
...publicly revealed her identity on the last day of the trial, as "no shrinking violet" and her husband, first cousin Allen Steed as a "milquetoast," not a rapist. She had flirted and enticed her husband, Bugden said. It was an old, familiar tactic in rape cases. But prosecutor Brock Belnap won the day by arguing that what Jeffs did by urging the two to "go forth and multiply" was no different from sacrificing a young virgin for the harvest - a religious belief, but a criminal act. "This trial has not been about religion and a vendetta," Walls said...