Word: retrial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the case was once again before the courts. The Supreme Court of the new state of Israel was officially considering a duly filed petition asking for a retrial of Jesus of Nazareth...
...night before Isorni's last visit Pétain felt stifled and decided that he was suffocating. Obsessed with the idea that he might die in the night with the record not yet set straight, he promptly penned a letter ordering his lawyer to demand a retrial. "I have never accepted my condemnation," he wrote. "I benefited from a grace I did not ask for." Next day he was as healthy as ever, but still sulking. "I was right all along [during the Vichy period]," he told Isorni. "I was more of a resister than anybody...
...Oklahoma court remanded these three cases for retrial, ruling that no competent evidence had been submitted that the Communist Party or the defendants had either sought to overthrow the government by force and violence or advocated such doctrine. It is fortunate that the higher court could sense the weakness of a law so susceptible to wide interpretation when it deplored prosecution for opinion and made a plea for the wisdom of giving people "an opportunity to let off a little steam . . . against the possible wrong-doings of the government." But, though the interpretation was condemned, the law itself was upheld...