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Woodbridge man gets life sentence in murder of woman, 80, reading in park
March 22, 2010 A mentally ill Woodbridge man who shot and killed an 80-year-old woman as she sat reading on a Fairfax County park bench was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
Names and Faces: Gossip about Justice John Roberts, Michelle Obama, Eric Dane
March 22, 2010
Sometimes losing a home is just the beginning of the pain
March 22, 2010As if losing one's home in a foreclosure or short sale were not already sufficiently traumatic, many former homeowners are learning that the day they turn in their keys may be only the start of an even more prolonged housing-induced misery.
Dueling Post columns on Rahm Emanuel
March 22, 2010Pow!
A shameful attack on the U.S. legal system
March 22, 2010 It never occurred to me on the day that Defense Department lawyer Rebecca Snyder and Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler of the Navy appeared in my law firm's offices to ask for our assistance in carrying out their duties as military defense lawyers that the young lawyer who worked with me on that matter would be publicly attacked for having done so. And yet this week that lawyer and eight other Justice Department attorneys have been attacked in a video released by a group called Keep America Safe (whose board members include William Kristol and Elizabeth Cheney) for having provided legal assistance to detainees before joining the department. The video questions their loyalty to the United States, asking: "DOJ: Department of Jihad?" and "Who are these government officials? . . . Whose values do they share?"
Local Digest
March 22, 2010
Somali official's immunity case raises legal, policy issues
March 22, 2010The federal government argues that it is up to the executive branch, not the judicial, to decide when foreign officials deserve immunity from charges of human rights abuses filed in U.S. courts.
Md. and Va. defense attorneys differ on Supreme Court ruling on Miranda rights
March 22, 2010Defense attorneys in Maryland and Virginia differ on the potential impact of a recent Supreme Court decision that says police can seek to interview a suspect who has invoked his Miranda rights, provided that law enforcement officers release the suspect from custody and wait 14 days.
Mass. court upholds state gun-lock requirement
March 22, 2010BOSTON -- The highest court in Massachusetts on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that requires gun owners to lock weapons in their homes in a ruling applauded by gun-control advocates.
Chief Justice John Roberts found State of the Union scene 'troubling'
March 22, 2010TUSCALOOSA, ALA. -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday that the scene at President Obama's State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech has "degenerated to a political pep rally."
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