A federal judge on Thursday sentenced civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to 10 years in prison, increasing her original sentence of 28 months. Stewart was convicted by a jury in 2005 on...
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Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart sentenced to 10 years for aiding terror client
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Goldman Sachs reaches record $550 million settlement with SEC
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Federal appeals court upholds sentence for son of Liberia ex-president
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US Senate sends financial reform legislation to Obama
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Kyrgyzstan establishes commission to probe ethnic violence
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ICTR defense lawyer shot dead
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Democratic fundraiser sentenced to 12 years for Ponzi scheme
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DC appeals court rules against same-sex marriage vote
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Gambia court sentences 8 to death for roles in 2009 coup attempt
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ICC orders release of Congo militia leader Lubanga, pending appeal
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Goldman, Sachs & Co. on Thursday agreed to a $550 million settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to resolve charges that they marketed a subprime...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the torture convictions and sentence of Charles McArthur Emmanuel, son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor . Emmanuel was sentenced [JURIST...
The US Senate on Thursday voted 60-39 in favor of comprehensive financial reform legislation , sending it to President Barack Obama . The vote on the Restoring American...
Kyrgyz interim President Roza Otunbayeva on Thursday issued a decree establishing a commission to investigate last month's ethnic violence against the country's Uzbek population. The commission is comprised of 30 former government officials ,...
A senior defense lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was shot dead outside of his home Tuesday night. Police say Jwani Mwaikusa was killed , along with his...
Former Democratic Party fundraiser Hassan Nemazee was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in March to charges of bank fraud and wire fraud relating to his orchestration of $292 million pyramid scheme. The federal judge...
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled 5-4 that the DC Charter was not violated when city officials refused to allow a ballot initiative on same-sex marriage . The court,...
A Gambian court on Thursday sentenced eight mensix former army officers and two former high-ranking government officialsto death for their roles in a 2009 coup attempt. The men were charged in March with conspiring to overthrow the...
Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday ordered the release of accused Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo . The announcement comes one week after the court...
