"Serious readers should be reading [Scott] Turow, because he is not just one of our best crime novelists; he is also one of our better novelists," declared writer/critic Wendy Lesser...
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A defendant can avoid the state's death penalty if only one juror believes the suspect has shown he or she is mentally retarded, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.The 4-2 decision by New Jersey'...
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Good news for fans of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent": Rusty Sabich is back on the jobTurow, speaking to The Associated Press on Saturday at BookExpo America, said he has written about one-quarte...
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A media watchdog on Thursday urged the U.S. military to show good cause for the detention an Associated Press photographer in Iraq, and described his incarceration as "unjust."Military officials ha...
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Derek Jeter settled his case with tax officials, who had said the New York Yankees captain should have paid three years of taxes as a New York state resident.A state official confirmed the settleme...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Dutch prosecutors said Wednesday they would
apply to the courts for a total ban on the activities of the Hells
Angels, accusing the motorcycling club of in...
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A court Wednesday acquitted the flamboyant widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos of five counts of tax evasion, court officials and her lawyer said.Imelda Marcos, a wealthy socialite who gained fame f...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
SUBPRIME IN BLACK AND WHITE (The New York Times, New York)
Evidence is mounting that during the housing boom, black and
Hispanic borrower...
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MANILA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The mothers of two missing
Philippine students petitioned the Supreme Court on Wednesday
to force the military to let them search army bases for their
daughters, testing...
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The presiding professional judge in the incoming citizen judge
system is expected to tell lay judges to use their ''common sense''
in reaching their verdicts in criminal cases, according to d...
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Afghanistan's lower house of parliament on Saturday voted into law a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter century of fighting, ...
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