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Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency
Attorney general nominee Eric H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent Puerto Rican nationalist...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Prosecution, Bank Robbery, Laws
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Burris should be seated: Dellinger
The Swampby Frank James Democrat Roland Burris should be seated by the Democratic-controlled Senate, says the highly regarded lawyer Walter Dellinger, who headed the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in the Clinton Administration. He makes the same...Tags: Roland Burris, Corporate Crime, National Government, Executive Branch, New York Times
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Police investigating alleged strip search of teens
Associated Press WriterThe families of two 14-year-old girls filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging an off-duty Chicago police officer illegally strip searched them in an effort to find a lighter she believed was used to set a small fire at the girls' school. The girls were pulled...Tags: Police Investigations, Police, Law Enforcement, Employees, Justice System
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Minnesota news in brief at 8:58 p.m. CST
Carl Pohlad rose to the pinnacle of the business world, earning billions and gaining a measure of fame as owner of the Minnesota Twins, but his son recalled at Pohlad's funeral Thursday that his father cared little about the trappings of wealth. "He had...Tags: Retirement, Harmon Killebrew, Major League Baseball, Charity, Employees
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Lawyers for Gov. Rod Blagojevich want U.S. attorney off case
Tribune reporterIn announcing Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest on corruption charges last month, U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald was more outspoken than usual when it came to the stunning allegations that the governor had tried to sell a U.S. Senate seat. "Gov. Blagojevich...Tags: Prosecution, Abraham Lincoln, Corporate Crime, Corrupt Practices, Executive Branch
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Getting tough on drunken driving will cost Wis.
Associated Press WriterGetting tough on drunken drivers won't be cheap. Two of the most talked about measures to strengthen the state's drunken driving laws come with large price tags, which may doom them given a projected $5.4 billion state budget shortfall....Tags: Prosecution, Milwaukee, Transportation, Police, Police Investigations
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Illinois' Burris is a man of high ambition
Associated Press WritersRoland Burris has erected a grand mausoleum for himself, carved with the words "TRAIL BLAZER" and a long list of his accomplishments, with a space left for his more recent achievements. That gap could soon be filled in with "U.S. Senator." The tomb is a...Tags: Roland Burris, Tourism and Leisure, Civil and Public Service, George Ryan, U.S. Department of Treasury
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Man awaiting sentencing found dead
A man awaiting sentencing in a multimillion-dollar insurance scam based in Muncie has been found dead in Ohio. Douglas Haynes, 50, whose body was found Sunday along railroad tracks in Cleveland, was one of five people indicted by a federal grand jury in...Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Punishment, Defendants, Ohio
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Ill. gov.'s attys: Throw top prosecutor off case
AP Legal Affairs WriterGov. Rod Blagojevich's defense attorneys urged a federal judge Thursday to throw Chicago's top federal prosecutor and all of his assistants out of the fraud and bribery case against the governor. Federal prosecutors immediately retorted that the...Tags: Prosecution, Corrupt Practices, Corporate Crime, Laws, Court Preliminary
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Mich. SupCt changes with new justice, new leader
Associated Press WriterThe Michigan Supreme Court was transformed Thursday when a Democrat became the new chief justice, thanks to the arrival of the court's first new judge in nearly a decade. Marilyn Kelly, 70, is the fifth woman to serve as leader of the court since it was...Tags: Prosecution, Freedom of the Press, Defendants, National Government, Philosophy
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Videos of fatal police shooting in Oakland, Calif., spark violent protests, homicide probe
Associated Press WritersOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In grainy cell-phone videos played over and over on the Internet, police officers force an unarmed black man to the ground and hold him face-down on a crowded train platform. Suddenly one of the officers draws his gun and...Tags: Riots, Police, Police Investigations, Law Enforcement, New Year's Day
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Va.-based appeals court says government can't hold sex offenders beyond end of prison sentence
Associated Press WriterRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Congress overstepped its authority when it enacted a law allowing the federal government to hold sex offenders in custody indefinitely beyond the end of their prison terms, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The law...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Oklahoma, Sexual Assault, Laws, George Bush
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