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...days leading up to the penalty phase of the trial, some of the victims' families stood in a seemingly awkward alliance with the family of Juan Luna, the man convicted of the crime, denouncing the death penalty as an inhumane punishment. Thursday evening they got their wish. The verdict took only two hours of deliberation, and it ensures that Luna, convicted last Thursday after a 14-day trial, will spend the remainder of his life in prison. James Degorski, the second man charged in the case, one of Illinois' longest-running murder mysteries and worst massacres, is expected...
...rule that sends child predators to jail for life. But the push for even harsher punishment was coming from the state leadership, rather than from the grass roots, as tightening of criminal laws often does. "Prosecutors will tell you these are the most difficult cases to get a guilty verdict on," Edmonds said. "Prosecutors lose more of these cases than any other...
...March 29, arguing, in a written statement to the court, that there had been a “long delay in sentencing,” and Purdy had thereby been denied his right to a speedy trial. “There will probably be an appeal of the verdict, but not of the sentence,” Silverman said. Purdy was convicted of running a house of prostitution and deriving earnings from a prostitute on February 23. His sentencing hearing was initially scheduled for March 13, but the proceedings were postponed until April 5 because the prosecutor...
...attack. On April 12, I was a guest on a local television show discussing the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Serbian troops led by General Ratko Mladic, who is still on the run from international justice. The TV debate centered on the April 10 verdict by a Serbian war-crimes court that sentenced four members of a paramilitary group known as the Scorpions for the execution of six Muslims from Srebrenica...
...entertainment will be supplied by live Kirkland musical performers and a rockin’ DJ. “In Kirkland House we don’t need chocolate fountains to have a good time” House Committee (HoCo) Chair Anna M. F. McCallie ’08 says. Verdict: (Incestuously) HOT. The Mather House Formal Standard courtyard, classy dress-up deal. They got rid of the tent this year in an effort to save money and make it more of a classy evening garden affair, and less of a sweaty college party. With the extra cash, they?...