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...this case begins in Texas. The state courts, through an incredible contortion of reason and good sense, managed to convict two people for the very same crime. To do that, the courts had to rely on the following incredible contention: the knowledge that Ms. Hogan was in fact the trigger-woman did not constitute new evidence that might bear on the case of Mr. Jacobs. Is that the kind of thinking they teach in law school...
...issue an opinion. How could they? How could they endorse the preposterous claims of the lower court, even implicitly, by claiming, like the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans: "It is not for us to say" who in fact pulled the trigger...
...State Department is investigating reports that Israel gave China U.S. aviation technology to build a fighter jet. If true, the illegal transfer would trigger U.S. sanctions. The announcement came in response to an Associated Press report quoting a senior Israeli official as saying Israel had sold China "some technology on aircraft" under contracts "very small in magnitude." Said State Department spokesman Mike McCurry, who conceded that rumors of such a transfer had been circulating for some time: "Those types of reports concern us very deeply."TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllisternotes this is not the first time U.S. officials have...
...left hand raised to his head, soaked in his blood. His name was Nermin Divovic. He wasn't killed by surprise, by a shell. He was sought out by a Serb sniper who waited, got him into his telescopic sights, looked at his face and then pulled the trigger. Then the same sniper shot Nermin's mother in the stomach so she would not die immediately, but would watch her son die first...
...Mandeville also claims that any attempt by the AKC to limit registration would trigger government sanctions. "We would like to be able to say, 'I'm sorry, we're not registering your dog,' but we would be in court faster than your head would spin. The Federal Trade Commission has rules and regulations in this country about restriction of trade...