Word: retrials
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...DENIED PARDON. LORI BERENSON, 32, the American radical convicted in June 2001 of collaborating with Peruvian Marxist guerrillas and sentenced to 20 years in prison, by Peru's Supreme Court; in Lima. Berenson's parents appealed to the Peruvian President for amnesty for their daughter during last year's retrial of the former student activist, who was convicted of aiding the rebels in their war against the government and given a life sentence by a military tribunal in 1996. SENTENCED. CHALASAI YUGALA, 29, widow of Thai Prince Thitipan Yugala; to six years in prison for fatally poisoning her 60-year...
...club Chelsea (Byrne turns out for lowly Wimbledon) and have previously broken club rules that attempt to restrict the players' drinking and behavior. do you want to be a drunk or a footballer? screamed the Mirror. Indeed, a series of negative headlines involving footballers over recent months - including the retrial of Leeds United stars Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer, in which Woodgate was found guilty of affray - suggests a disturbing trend of players behaving badly. It also questions the ability of the game's authorities to control some of the world's best-paid athletes...
...Einhorn has been extradited to the United States after a four-year battle. The counterculture guru and notorious fugitive arrived in Friday morning in Philadelphia, where he faces a retrial ? he was convicted in absentia in 1993 of the brutal 1977 murder of his girlfriend...
...years. The court found her innocent of active militancy in the guerrilla group and of helping to procure international financing, which would have carried a life sentence. Berenson was jailed for life by a secret military tribunal in 1996 on charges of treason, but was granted a retrial on lesser charges last year. She declared the judgment "unjust" and lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court...
...process began under (former president Alberto) Fujimori, when relations with the United States were strained. There were obvious weaknesses and deficiencies in that first trial, including being charged with treason when she wasn't a citizen. But the retrial was a political move; it wasn't an offer extended to everyone else tried by hooded judges. So the view is that she wasn't treated worse; she was treated better...