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...what she wants to do with her body – when, in fact, the child can survive outside her body – no longer holds. New York District Judge Richard Casey was right when he said that “The Court finds that the testimony at trial and before Congress establishes that D&X [partial-birth abortion] is a gruesome, brutal, barbaric, and uncivilized medical procedure.” Unless the health of the mother would be seriously endangered, there is no reason why the Supreme Court should allow such a morally repugnant procedure to continue...
...judge offered to appoint him an attorney but Siebach declined, saying that he was already looking for one. The next pre-trial hearing is slated for April 10 in order to give the defendant enough time to find counsel...
...judge warned Siebach that if he is arrested again before the pre-trial hearing, he will be jailed for 60 days without bail...
...assassination of Claude Erignac, former prefect of Corsica and the state's highest representative on the island. Though upholding their conviction for involvement in 1994 bombings on the French mainland, the court cleared Jean Castela and Vincent Andriuzzi of participating in the conspiracy to murder Erignac. The trial laid bare many gaps - and some false evidence - in the case police aided prosecutors to build. For example, transcripts of testimony dated Aug. 20, 1998, supposedly incriminating the men, included references to events that transpired months later. Prosecutors are appealing that ruling, but it still raises serious doubts about the pending trial...
...faint glimmer of justice is piercing the grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners...