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Crime:
4/05 Body of Texas Judge, Pistol Found in Home
4/05 Inmate, Warden's Wife Found in Texas
4/05 Inmate Who Disappeared 11 Years Ago Found
Drugs & Biotech:
4/04 U.N.: Cholera epidemic kills 15 in squalid eastern Congo
3/31 Indonesia Relief Hampered by Damaged Roads
3/30 California University Suspends Fraternity
Cyberspace:
4/05 Energy Dept. Not Fazed by Yucca E-Mails
4/05 Web portal raises profile, and eyebrows, with Hollywood push
Top Headlines:
4/01 Former national security adviser to plead guilty to taking classified material
3/24 Rigas Sentencings Reset for April
3/23 Gov't Confirms Criminal Probe of Hollinger
White Collar Crime:
4/05 Attorney General to Defend Renewal of Patriot Act to Congress
4/05 Abuse Victims Want Cardinals to Consider Lessons of Abuse Crisis When Choosing Next Pope
4/05 Soc. Sec. Numbers on Medicare Cards Eyed
Case Summaries
Criminal Law & Procedure
08/05 US v. MARTINEZ-PARAMO
Defendant's conviction for being unlawfully present in the United States is affirmed, however, his sentence is vacated and remanded to allow the government to supplement the record with missing information regarding a previous indictment concerning a crime of violence.
08/05 US v. DAVIS
The district court's denial of defendants death sentences, on grounds that their indictment did not contain elements required by the Federal Death Penalty Act, is reversed where the exclusion occurred when the indictment was returned, and, subsequently, the error was harmless since it did not attach at sentencing.
08/05 JONES v. KELLY
The district court's decision requiring defendant to provide post-seizure hearings for cars held as arrest evidence and for forfeiture proceedings is affirmed as it relates to cars held for forfeiture but reversed with respect to cars held as arrest evidence.