Word: retrial
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...minister's elation hasn't faded. "I'm absolutely thrilled," she says. "Now I am free of any stain." When reminded that the verdict is not a wholesale exoneration, but rather an order to set aside her conviction for taking kickbacks from a Swiss firm and proceed with a retrial and that charges remain pending against her, Bhutto is dismissive. "Anyone can make a charge. All this is a plot to deny my leadership to the people of Pakistan." She was routed at the polls when she last stood for election in 1997, but the court's decision lifts...
...mean he does not know what the Republicans are prepared to do to win this. They threatened to call Kenny Jones, the Moniteau County, Mo., sheriff whose wife and three deputies were killed in 1991 by James Johnson, the convicted killer whom White wanted to be granted a retrial. Even beyond that case, the Republicans are prepared to argue that White was unfit for the federal bench; they are threatening to dredge up his law-school grades, his bar exam, his record as a lawyer and even details of his family life to prove Ashcroft was right about White. "People...
While Abramian remains in the country, Jonathan J. Barter, his attorney, will continue as planned with the retrial of the discrimination suit against Harvard, Barter said...
This summer, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a jury decision that found Harvard fired Abramian in retaliation for his complaints about discrimination. But the court ordered a retrial on Abramian's claim that Harvard discriminated against him, finding that the judge issued incorrect jury instructions in the original trial...
...charge alleging discrimination must now go back to a jury for retrial...