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Aung San Suu Kyi given 4 years in prison
Myanmar's ousted civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was sentenced to another four years in prison on Monday, the second round of verdicts against the Nobel prize winner.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: What Jussie Smollett's guilty verdicts tell us
It's hard for me to think of Jussie Smollett without thinking of Amy Cooper. They each did something horrifically stupid and dangerous, echoing the worst of this country's racial history for their own selfish reasons.
[ cnn.com ]Jurors deliberated between charges of malice murder and felony murder. Here's what that means
Three men convicted Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery each faced nine possible charges that stemmed from their involvement in the 2020 shooting near Brunswick, Georgia. But the verdicts rendered by the jury on some of the allegations differed.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: It shouldn't have taken all this to convict Ahmaud Arbery's killers
Watching Judge Timothy Walmsley on Wednesday read the verdicts declaring Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020 reminded me of how I felt the day openly bigoted Donald Trump was finally declared the loser of the 2020 presidential election. I exhaled while wondering how in the world we were still having to deal with such things in 21st century America and scared as hell that months or years from now I'd look back to what is good news today only to discover it was just a temporary reprieve from an ongoing backlash to racial progress.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: Jurors saw through the preposterous defense by Ahmaud Arbery's killers
As Americans digest the guilty verdicts in the case of the three men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery, we can look to the powerful video evidence and the stellar work of prosecutor Linda Dunikoski and her team in managing that evidence as significant factors in an outcome 180 degrees different from the verdict in George Zimmerman's killing of Trayvon Martin.
[ cnn.com ]Biden responds to verdict in killing of Ahmaud Arbery
President Joe Biden said Wednesday the guilty verdicts in the trial for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery "reflect our justice system doing its job," but added, "that alone is not enough."
[ cnn.com ]Watch as judge reads guilty verdicts in court
A jury has found Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: Is this the dawn of a vigilante era?
Verdicts in criminal courts should make communities safer and our streets less dangerous. But the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of killing two people and shooting another during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020 will almost certainly do the reverse.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: What could Congress actually accomplish on police reform?
The guilty verdicts for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd felt like an important moment, creating momentum to change the way police interact with Black Americans.
[ cnn.com ]'SNL' takes on the Derek Chauvin trial via a Minnesota morning show
• Black families still reeling from verdicts in police brutality cases warn justice is not promised in Chauvin trial
[ cnn.com ]Families still reeling from verdicts in fatal police brutality cases warn justice is not promised in Chauvin trial
• A week of compelling and potentially devastating testimony at Chauvin's murder trial
[ cnn.com ]Saudi court sentences suspects in Jamal Khashoggi murder
Saudi Arabia has issued "final verdicts" against eight suspects in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 -- sentencing five of the defendants to 20 years in prison -- the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) has reported, citing a public prosecutor spokesman.
[ cnn.com ]Supreme Court adds to its public debate over precedent ahead of major rulings
For seven long months, the Supreme Court mulled a case concerning non-unanimous jury verdicts in state courts, but when the justices finally issued a fractured and fiery set of opinions on Monday, the outcome said as much about the current temperature of the court as it did about the final disposition of the case.
[ cnn.com ]Supreme Court Bans Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts for Serious Crimes
The badly fractured decision, affecting defendants in two states, continued a debate among the justices over the power of precedent.
[ nytimes.com ] Courts and the Judiciary,U.S. Supreme Court requires unanimous jury verdicts for serious crimes
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the constitutional guarantee of trial by jury requires a unanimous verdict in serious crimes, siding with a Louisiana man convicted of murder and paving the way for potentially hundreds of defendants found guilty by divided juries to receive new trials.
[ reuters.com ] politicsNews,U.S. Supreme Court rules that jury verdicts must be unanimous
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of trial by jury requires a unanimous verdict in serious crimes, handing a victory to a Louisiana man convicted of a 2014 murder in New Orleans.
[ reuters.com ] domesticNews,Supreme Court says jury verdicts required in state criminal trials for serious offenses
The Supreme Court said Monday that unanimous jury verdicts are required in state criminal trials for serious offenses, handing a victory to criminal defendants including petitioner Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted of murder in Louisiana on a 10-2 vote.
[ cnn.com ]Weinstein Guilty Verdicts Are Real Progress for All Sexual-Assault Victims
Cultural change is slowly reshaping the way the criminal justice system responds to sexual violence.
[ nytimes.com ] #MeToo Movement,WTO sides against U.S. over its tariffs on Canadian paper
World Trade Organization arbiters sided against the United States on Thursday over duties it had applied on Canadian paper in one of the final verdicts of the WTO's appeals body.
[ reuters.com ] businessNews,Hong Kong pro-democracy 'Occupy' activists defiant after guilty verdicts
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday found nine leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy "Occupy" movement guilty of public nuisance during the mass protests, in a landmark verdict as freedoms in the city ruled by mainland China come under strain.
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