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The Trials of Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s Jurors
The Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant with U.S. citizenship the right to be tried before an “impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” By this amendment, a jury is meant to be representative of a cross-section of the community in which the crime in question occurred. But…
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Berlusconi to face trial over sex scandal
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been indicted with abuse of power and was ordered to stand trial on April 6th. Mr. Berlusconi has been accused of paying an underage prostitute for sex, and subsequently abusing his office to have her released from custody when she was detained by the police for theft. According to…
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