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News Moussaoui testimony expected as defense gets underway in sentencing trial
Moussaoui testimony expected as defense gets underway in sentencing trial
Lisl Brunner
March 27, 2006 09:08:00 am

The sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday enters what analysts expect to be a critical week, with testimony from Moussaoui and other key witnesses. Prosecutors concluded their case for giving Moussaoui the death...

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News Austria skeptical of EU Constitution consensus
Austria skeptical of EU Constitution consensus
Lisl Brunner
March 24, 2006 08:46:00 am

After European Union foreign ministers met in Brussels Thursday to discuss the future of the EU Constitution , Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik has expressed doubt that a solution to the current impasse...

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News UN ready for final talks on Hariri assassination tribunal
UN ready for final talks on Hariri assassination tribunal
Lisl Brunner
March 24, 2006 08:14:00 am

UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel said Thursday that the UN is ready to begin final negotiations on the establishment of an international tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik...

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News Muslim clerics call for execution of Christian convert in Afghanistan
Muslim clerics call for execution of Christian convert in Afghanistan
Lisl Brunner
March 24, 2006 07:43:00 am

Leading Muslim clerics have urged that Afghanistan ignore international pressure and execute Abdul Rahman for converting from Islam to Christianity. "The people will kill him if he is freed," declared the chief cleric of...

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Prosecutors in Moussaoui sentencing trial conclude
Lisl Brunner
March 24, 2006 07:04:00 am

Prosecutors concluded their case in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui Thursday with the testimony of former FBI agent Aaron Zebley, who claimed that the FBI would have been able to trace records and identify 11...

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Libya leader says Saddam remains legal Iraqi president
Lisl Brunner
March 20, 2006 10:40:00 am

Libyan leader Colonel Muhamar Gaddafi has declared that Saddam Hussein remains the legal leader of Iraq, citing the US-led invasion of the country as "a war waged against the wishes of the United Nations."...

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OSCE slams Belarus elections as ‘severely flawed’
Lisl Brunner
March 20, 2006 10:08:00 am

International election observers said Monday that this weekend's elections in Belarus , which secured a third term for Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko , were "severely flawed" and failed to meet democratic standards. Lukashenko, whom...

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US government discussed warrantless searches after 9/11: report
Lisl Brunner
March 20, 2006 09:31:00 am

In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks , US government lawyers discussed ways to search the homes and businesses of suspected terrorists without court approval at the same time they debated warrantless electronic surveillance [JURIST...

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Moussaoui sentencing trial resumes after delay
Lisl Brunner
March 20, 2006 08:59:00 am

The sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui will resume on Monday after being stayed last week to allow for investigation of misconduct by Transportation Security Administration lawyer Carla Martin. Defense attorneys are set...

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Nigeria lawyers strike to protest government disregard of court judgments
Lisl Brunner
March 13, 2006 10:09:00 am

Nigerian lawyers have begun a two-day boycott of the country's courts in protest at what they say is "failure of the government to comply with court orders and the violation of human rights." Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) ...

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Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution.

Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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