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...Fire Department extinguishing a minor fire started in the bushes in front of the building. It was determined the cause was likely a discarded cigarette.9:54 p.m.: Officers were dispatched to Longwood Ave. in order to assist Boston Police Department counterparts. The reporting party stated they had entered a taxi who had insisted the destination was out of his regular range and would require further charges. The driver reportedly began yelling and refused to stop the cab. He finally stopped at the destination and the reporting party exited the cab without incident.May 5:2:07 p.m.: Officers were dispatched...
...three friends from his village of Zhuangtouying were convicted in 1995 of murdering a taxi driver-convictions obtained in large part on the basis of their confessions, which all four men later said they were tortured into fabricating. Citing numerous problems with the trial-one higher court found no fewer than 28 inconsistencies in the original court's conduct-the case was appealed all the way to the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, which recommended a retrial, as did several lower courts. In all, the case has been retried five times. Yet all four men remain in jail...
...same judges are not supposed to try the same case twice, but in this case they tried the case three times," he says. Xu says there were many other errors. According to documents lodged by the Chengde People's Procurate, the government alleged four men flagged down a taxi at the Chengde railway station on the night of the murder. After one asked the driver to stop so that he could relieve himself, all four attacked him with knives, stole about $50, a pager and some keys, and buried the body in a nearby field. With no witnesses...
...Still, several times a month, women like Yang and Wang Xiuqin, whose son Chen Guoqing is also imprisoned for the taxi murder, visit the main petition office in a run-down neighborhood near the Beijing South train station. Yang says she has no choice. "Of course we still come. Our children are innocent. How could we not come?" In December 2005, fed up with the lack of response, four relatives bypassed the petition office and marched straight to the red gates of Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party headquarters. Fu Yuru, mother of He Guoqiang, who is serving a suspended death sentence...
...Commentators on the streets sensed a conspiracy: "It's those Brazilians," noted taxi-driver Juan Gonzales, even though the ruling came from FIFA President Joseph Blatter in Zurich, reelected this week to a third consecutive term in office. "They and the Argentines pressured FIFA because they don't like that they lose sometimes when they play in Bolivia...