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Wednesday, January 8

Enemy combatants ruling  
Bernard Hibbitts at 1/8/2003 05:29:00 PM

Read Wednesday's US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [PDF], holding that the United States government has properly detained an American citizen captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan by declaring him an enemy combatant and denying him an attorney.



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Leahy warning re: Pickering  
Bernard Hibbitts at 1/8/2003 01:43:03 PM

Outgoing Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy fired a warning shot Wednesday across President Bush's renomination of Judge Charles W. Pickering to the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.



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Maryland death penalty race-bias study  
Bernard Hibbitts at 1/8/2003 01:20:15 PM

The full text of the University of Maryland study indicating that race affects the way that death penalty cases are handled in Maryland is now available online [PDF]. Read the accompanying press release from the University of Maryland.



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This day at law  
Bernard Hibbitts at 1/8/2003 08:37:10 AM

On January 8, 1973, seven men went on trial in Washington DC in connection with a June 17, 1972 break-in to Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. Read more about the Watergate burglary and cover-up.



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