Word: trialing
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...past may have finally caught up with the Unicorn. Counterculture guru Ira Einhorn came a step closer to the dock Thursday after a French court agreed to send him to the U.S. to stand in a new trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux. It's a small step -- Einhorn's lawyer is already readying an appeal, a process that could take up to two years and go all the way to the French equivalent of the Supreme Court. But it's an important one for Maddux's family, who have seen the man they believe...
...Tricaud argued that sending Einhorn home to America would violate his civil liberties. The French have trials in absentia, but someone so convicted in France gets a new trial once captured. Extradite Einhorn, and he could be put to death with no chance to defend himself, Tricaud wrongly told the judges. (Einhorn's sentence was life in prison, not death.) In a later interview, an adamant Tricaud described the case as an opportunity for the French to "give the United States a lesson in human rights...
Albert's face lit up when he spoke of letters of encouragement from fans and the public support he has received since the trial ended...
Muammar Ghaddafi's stubbornness has served the U.S. well. His refusal to surrender the Lockerbie bombing suspects -- which may be at an end following Wednesday's U.N. undertakings over the trial -- has been the cornerstone of Washington's containment policy. "The Lockerbie issue kept sanctions in place, allowing the U.S. to very successfully box in Ghaddafi," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He'd been financing guerrilla groups all over the world during the '80s, but now he's hardly a factor...
...Kofi Annan sent Ghaddafi a letter Wednesday affirming that prosecutors would not set out to undermine or implicate the Libyan government, ostensibly clearing the last stumbling block to a trial. "Of course, the evidence could still implicate Libya," says Dowell. "It's unlikely that the two mid-level Libyan agents charged for the bombing acted alone -- it's been Ghaddafi's fear of being implicated that's kept them out of court so far." And given the Libyan leader's record, all bets are off until the accused are actually in the dock...