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Copycat Va. Tech Threat Closes S.F. Law School

Shocked by Virginia Tech’s horrifying experience on Monday, other institutions of higher learning are now taking no chances about closing their campuses as soon as they hear of a possible security threat. The University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco closed abruptly Wednesday because of an…

Apr 19, 2007 5:55 PM CDT

Today in Legal History: Lincoln Viewing, Oklahoma City Bombing

On this day in 1865, U.S. Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, diplomats and military leaders paid their respects to President Abraham Lincoln as his body lay in state at the White House. The president had been shot by assassin John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre five days earlier. A…

Apr 19, 2007 5:00 PM CDT

Man Held, Secretly, in London Terror Bombings

A Pakistani man appeared in court last week for the first time in his home country after allegedly being abducted from South Africa 18 months ago and held secretly in connection with the 2005 suicide bombings in London, according to news reports. The lawyer for Khalid Mehmood Rashid said he…

Apr 18, 2007 7:45 PM CDT

Marine Pleads, Will Testify in 24 Iraqi Murders

In a plea deal announced today in the deadliest criminal case resulting from the Iraq war, the U.S. Marine Corps has dismissed all charges against one defendant and granted him immunity. In exchange for promised testimony by Sgt. Sanick P. Dela Cruz against fellow Marines, the service dismissed all charges…

Apr 17, 2007 11:36 PM CDT

Bush: Prosecute Crimes, Don’t Restrict Guns

Weighing in today on the gun control debate ignited Monday by the massacre at Virginia Tech, the White House said President Bush will “participate” in the discussion. However, a statement by spokeswoman Dana Perino seemingly suggested that the president may stay the course on his oft-repeated call to prosecute crimes…

Apr 17, 2007 8:41 PM CDT

Detainee Makes Torture Claim

Transcripts of a military hearing for a Guantanamo detainee released yesterday reveal his claims of torture. Abu Zubaydah said he made false statements in an effort to stop the abuse, the New York Times reports. His reply to a question seeking specifics was removed from the transcript. Zubaydah said he…

Apr 17, 2007 1:46 PM CDT

Va. Tech Massacre Dials Up Gun Control Debate

Even as bodies were still being counted in America’s worst on-campus shooting ever (the death toll, as of this posting, is reportedly at least 21, and possibly as many as 31, with another 21 injured), the carnage at Virginia Tech from two separate shootings today was prompting grassroots discussion of…

Apr 16, 2007 9:18 PM CDT

Will Terrorism Trial Be Cautionary Tale?

Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting to release a “dirty bomb,” goes on trial in Miami this week on federal terrorism charges. In pretrial rulings, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke excluded evidence obtained during the 3 ½ years Padilla was held without charges in solitary confinement, the Los Angeles Times…

Apr 16, 2007 2:46 PM CDT

Copycat Va. Tech Threat Closes S.F. Law School

Today in Legal History: Lincoln Viewing, Oklahoma City Bombing

Man Held, Secretly, in London Terror Bombings

Marine Pleads, Will Testify in 24 Iraqi Murders

Bush: Prosecute Crimes, Don’t Restrict Guns

Detainee Makes Torture Claim

Va. Tech Massacre Dials Up Gun Control Debate

Will Terrorism Trial Be Cautionary Tale?

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