Word: retrials
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...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...
...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...