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Saturday, January 11

Illinois death row clemency  
Bernard Hibbitts at 1/11/2003 08:52:34 PM

Read the full text of outgoing Illinois Governor George Ryan's speech Saturday afternoon at Northwestern University Law School, announcing a blanket clemency for all Illinois prisoners on death row. Review The Case for Blanket Clemency, authored by Northwestern's Center for Unlawful Convictions, which had championed the clemency drive.



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This day at law  
Bernard Hibbitts at 1/11/2003 12:52:52 PM

On January 11, 1943, the United States and Great Britain relinquished by treaty their extraterritorial claims in China. This abandonment effectively ended the jurisdiction of the extraterritorial United States Court for China (established 1906) and the British Supreme Court in China. Read more about the United States Court for China - which one scholar has called 'probably the strangest federal tribunal ever constituted by Congress' - in a short online history of the US Ninth Circuit.



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