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...were killed. In 1993 a judge convicted Clegg of murder on the grounds that he fired the bullet that killed Reilly after the car had passed the checkpoint and the soldiers were no longer in danger. The sentence: life in prison. Two weeks ago, Britain's appeal court reluctantly upheld the life term under the requirements of a law that it criticized as too unbending. The ruling intensified efforts to obtain Clegg's release. M.P.s, ex-servicemen and newspaper editors have rallied to his cause: more than a million people have signed petitions, while the government is considering...
...many other states, appeals courts have issued rulings that have a similar effect. One of those states is California. In a 1986 spousal-murder case, People v. Zack, which could have serious implications for Simpson, the California Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man accused of killing his wife, ruling that prosecutors could offer evidence that he had assaulted her repeatedly in the past. In the Simpson case, Deputy District Attorney Scott Gordon told the court, "This murder took 17 years to commit...
...person may disturb an individual engaged in the lawful taking of an animal with the intent to dissaude the individual or otherwise prevent the taking of the animal." --A Montana law recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court designed to protect hunters from animal rights activists. Quoted in yesterday's New York Times...
...called the meeting because he saw "unclarity" as to whether the new policy was finalized, he said, adding that he was very pleased that the committee's decision was upheld. He earlier said that house administrators called the meeting after the tutor in charge of diversity brought the new policy to their attention...
Breaking with other federal courts that have ruled for gays in similar cases, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the dismissal from the Naval Academy of a top-ranked, openly gay midshipman. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected at some point to settle the constitutionality of dismissing military personnel who don't hide their homosexuality...