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...moratorium has had no practical effect and I think it would be good to lift it,? said Thomas Brown, the chief prosecutor for rural Livingston County, who won a new death sentence for the only person who was cleared from Death Row by Ryan but then returned for a separate murder case. ?We?ve had to start filling it back up one by one, and there?s no case that?s ripe yet so it could be 15 or 20 years of appeals before anyone actually is executed (if the moratorium gets lifted). There?s this push for perfection...
...Because it couldn't prove al-Arian was "the most powerful man" in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as one prosecutor characterized him during the trial, or link him directly with any of the brutal killings perpetrated by PIJ, "this [was] a failed prosecution, period," al-Arian attorney Linda Moreno tells TIME. "[Former Attorney General] John Ashcroft announced the indictment three years ago on the steps of the Justice Department. Three years later, we have the Department of Justice recommending that Dr. al-Arian be sentenced to the lowest term possible and agreeing that this is not a crime of violence...
...Lula's Finance Minister, Antonio Palocci, stepped down, accused of breaking banking secrecy laws in an attempt to discredit a witness who testified before a Congressional committee to seeing him at a villa used by his aides to distribute bribes and sleep with prostitutes. And on Wednesday, a federal prosecutor charged 40 people in connection with the scandal, including Jose Dirceu, the man who was Lula's closest advisor for years. Says opposition Senator Arthur Virgilio: "Lula has run a corrupt government, one that is completely unstable from an ethical standpoint and incompetent from an administrative standpoint...
Libby's testimony was disclosed in a filing last week by the prosecutor probing the leak of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife. The President has the power to declassify unilaterally. The White House later published parts of the NIE, though some of the findings had been disputed by members of the intelligence community. "It was in the public interest that this information be provided," press secretary Scott McClellan said. The filing pointed out that Bush did not know about the leaking of Plame's name. Lawyers involved in the case say the testimony increases...
...prepared to put memory and mourning on the witness stand, Moussaoui prosecutor Rob Spencer told the jurors: "You cannot understand the magnitude of that day unless you hear it from the victims themselves." On Thursday the jurors heard the heartbreaking calls to emergency operators from people trapped in the burning towers; watched a videotape of the carnage; heard Rudy Giuliani talk about seeing victims jump from the 101st floor rather than face the flames. The New York City mayor said the image of two people jumping together, appearing to hold hands, remains with him, every day. Prosecutors planned to play...