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Haditha Marine squad leader court-martial postponed
Nick Fiske
March 1, 2008 11:18:00 am

The court-martial of US Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich was postponed indefinitely on Friday to allow prosecutors time to appeal a judge's decision to throw out a subpoena for unaired footage from a CBS interview with Wuterich....

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Spain court to drops ‘Dirty War’ genocide case against Argentina ex-naval officer
Nick Fiske
March 1, 2008 11:13:00 am

Spain's National Court on Friday said that it will drop its prosecution of former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo and extradite him back to his home country where he will stand trial for...

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One in 100 US adults in prison: Pew report
Nick Fiske
February 28, 2008 06:56:00 pm

One in every 100 US adults is currently in prison, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States (PCS) . The report found that males were 17 times more...

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Federal appeals court denies injunction against Arizona immigration law
Nick Fiske
February 28, 2008 05:52:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a district court's denial of an emergency injunction to block enforcement of an Arizona law that penalizes employers who hire...

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Mukasey claims lapsed surveillance bill hindering intelligence process
Nick Fiske
February 23, 2008 10:23:00 am

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey and US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said Friday that some telecommunications companies are circumventing wiretapping orders after the temporary Protect America Act expired last week...

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France judges question rogue trader, second banker in massive fraud case
Nick Fiske
February 21, 2008 06:56:00 pm

French judges Thursday questioned a trader tied to the alleged French "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel , who made $73 billion worth of unauthorized trades while working for French bank Societe Generale . The man, who...

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Nick Fiske
February 21, 2008 06:04:00 pm

Former Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis told AP Thursday that he has agreed to appear as a defense witness in the military commission trial of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST...

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Former Khmer Rouge commander dies while serving Cambodia life sentence
Nick Fiske
February 16, 2008 11:16:00 am

Former Khmer Rouge Commander Sam Bith died Friday at the age of 74 after suffering from a history of high blood pressure and diabetes. Bith was serving a life sentence after being convicted by a Cambodian court in 2002...

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Former Zambia president to stand trial on corruption charges
Nick Fiske
February 16, 2008 10:03:00 am

A Zambian High Court Magistrate Friday ruled that former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba must stand trial for allegedly stealing money from the country's treasury while in office from 1991-2001. Chiluba and two Zambian businessmen, Faustin Kabwe and...

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Chad president declares state of emergency banning public meetings, censoring press
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February 14, 2008 06:42:00 pm

Chadian President Idriss Deby Thursday declared a state of emergency throughout Chad , citing increased violence between government forces and rebels in the capital city of...

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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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