Word: trialing
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...minister did not say when the trial would begin, but he did say law requires the government to produce the doctors in court once a month during their detention. He also said there was legal provision with the constitution allowing the detention to be challenged at the country's Supreme Court...
...week to ask a federal judge to toss out California's Proposition 8, one might have expected longtime gay-marriage advocates to welcome the move with open arms. After all, not only is Olson, 69, one of the preeminent members of the Supreme Court bar and Boies an acclaimed trial lawyer who famously squared off with Olson in 2000 when they took opposing sides in the Supreme Court's landmark Bush v. Gore election case. But perhaps even more important symbolically, Olson is a former top lawyer in the George W. Bush and Reagan administrations, the epitome of a mainstream...
Instead of standing trial, as human-rights groups are demanding, Shamanov will continue to serve as a super-hawk at a time when Russia has been making efforts to assert its place on the world stage though aggressive military actions. Just last week Shamanov said that "airborne troops proved during the five-day war [with Georgia] that they ... remain the backbone of Russia's conventional forces," according to Russian news agency RIA-Novosti. Previously head of the Ministry of Defense's combat training command, Shamanov ordered a change in training last year to prepare Russia's military to fight...
...made was not criminalizing 9/11 and making the FBI the lead investigator. This would not have stood in the way of Pakistan arresting 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (K.S.M.). In a war of ideas, we would have been well served as a country to have put K.S.M. on public trial, confronting him with damning evidence and exposing the bloody insanity of a man who has caused the death of more Muslims than anyone in modern history. But now, thanks to waterboarding and other interrogation abuses, this option may be closed off to us. (Read "Why the CIA Turned Down Dick...
...heroin-trafficking conviction, the final twist in a case that has drawn attention to a country that, despite its growing tourist appeal, is repressively ruled by one of the world's last socialist cliques. Although Orobator was arrested last August, she was for months denied any legal representation. Her trial was conducted behind closed doors, and Amnesty International said the British woman's case "highlights a justice system shrouded in secrecy." (See pictures of Mexico's drug tunnels...