Word: retrial
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...were relieved. It meant the investigation into the crusading journalist's shooting would continue and, they hoped, would finally catch the real culprits: the person who ordered the assassination and the person who pulled the trigger. But on Thursday, Russia's Supreme Court overturned the acquittal and ordered a retrial, sparking fears that a guilty verdict the second time around will end the search for Politkovskaya's killers...
...ruling, the Supreme Court said there were numerous procedural violations in the previous trial, and an improper bias against the defendants, which necessitated a retrial on the same charges in the same court. (By citing procedural violations, the Supreme Court renders the first verdict void, and so sidesteps the issue of double jeopardy which states a person can't be tried for the same crime twice.) Politkovskaya's family and lawyers oppose a retrial, saying a guilty verdict for the alleged accomplices could end the investigation and allow those directly responsible for the murder to remain free. Meanwhile, journalists...
...anyone would be successfully prosecuted for the Omagh bombing. Prior to that, Colm Murphy - one of the five accused in the families' civil case - was sentenced to 14 years in jail in the Republic of Ireland in 2002 for conspiracy to cause the bombing. Murphy is currently awaiting a retrial after that conviction was overturned. (See pictures of the British army leaving Northern Ireland...
...bottle of wine - possession of alcohol is illegal in the Islamic Republic - Saberi was later charged with espionage, then quickly tried, found guilty and, on Saturday, sentenced to eight years in prison. But because Iranian appeals courts review both matters of law and fact (they are more like a retrial than an American-style appeals system), the appeals court could reduce or overturn Saberi's sentence on procedural grounds, charge her with lesser offenses, or even declare her not guilty. (See pictures of Ahmadinejad's visit to New York...
...Brinkema's focus is the plea deal al-Arian signed in 2006 to avoid a retrial on the deadlocked terrorism charges. Under its terms, al-Arian, 51, a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian who since 1986 had been an instructor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and was, after taking time already served into account, to be deported nearly immediately. But a federal prosecutor in Virginia evidently had no intention of allowing al-Arian to leave the country. Unbeknownst to defense lawyers at the time, Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg was preparing...