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...knowledge of good and evil. The prosecution has argued that she contemplated the murders for two years and later showed signs of remorse, all proof of moral clarity. But the defense will try to show that her rationalization process was insane. The jail psychiatrist testified that upon her arrest, she said, "I was so stupid. Could I have killed just one to fulfill the prophecy? Could I have offered Mary [her youngest]?" The jury could begin deliberating the case--and the conundrum of Andrea Yates' mind--this week or next...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. CHARLES SCHWARZ, 36, former New York City police officer jailed for participating in the torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima after his arrest in 1997; in New York City. The court ruled that Schwarz's attorney had a conflict of interest in representing him and that jurors had been exposed to prejudicial information. The ruling also overturned the convictions of Schwarz and two other officers for obstruction of justice. It does not affect Justin Volpe, the officer who pleaded guilty to torturing Louima with a broomstick and was sentenced to 30 years in prison...
...Korean Power Plant Industry Union has spent the past two weeks huddled in an unheated tent pitched on the paving stones behind Seoul's Myeongdong Cathedral, the time-honored sanctuary of unionists and student rebels on the run. Lee and 20 other union members took refuge after police issued arrest warrants accusing them of launching illegal strikes to protest the government's plan to sell power plants to private investors. Privatization could destroy the economy, warns Lee: "The people know it's not right...
...wanted for questioning by authorities in Madrid, who allege he was the right-hand man of Imad Eddin Barakat Yarbas, the leader of an al-Qaeda cell in Spain. But Parlindungan, who had returned to Indonesia in December 2000 from Spain, mysteriously disappeared last November, after Spanish police arrested Imad and seven other suspected terrorists. "The Indonesians had him in their hands," says a Western intelligence source in Jakarta, "he was under 24-hr. surveillance and then when the request came in for his arrest, he suddenly couldn't be found." This time, though, it's a sure bet that...
...citizens of Lanshan county are putting up one of the most remarkable fights. Several families have defied arrest and harassment by organizing a campaign to impeach officials they accuse of gross incompetence and corruption. Their movement comes to a head this week with a motion to impeach the county's police chief?Tang Jili?and the vice county magistrate on charges of corruption. It will probably fail, but it's one of the most daring attempts to date of Chinese citizens trying to get at local mandarins who still wield immeasurable power. It's at the county level that taxation...