Lindh seeks sentence reduction
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Attorneys for John Walker Lindh, who pleaded guilty in July 2002 to a charge of aiding the Taliban, are asking President Bush to reduce his 20-year prison sentence.
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John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan after he had joined the Taliban, asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to reduce his 20-year prison sentence
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The Lib Dems are to unveil plans to allow communities to decide punishment of some minor offenders.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - A military judge hearing evidence in the abuse cases at Abu Ghraib prison demanded yesterday that prosecutors speed up the investigation.
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Plans to give murderers lighter sentences if they plead guilty have been watered down.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - A military judge hearing evidence in the alleged abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison demanded Monday that prosecutors speed up the investigation, warning that further delay could derail the case against at least one of the accused soldiers.    Col...
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FARGO, N.D. - A man who stripped to the waist, put on safety goggles and tore up a Verizon Wireless store after complaining of bad phone service has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.
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The Justice Department has asked a judge to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, reversing course in a case the Bush administration once hailed as a major victory in the war on terrorism, legal sources said Tuesday.
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A military translator accused of  espionage at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, asked a  military judge on Tuesday to drop some charges after the  prosecution acknowledged detainee letters found in his  possession were not classified.
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A Swedish Pentecostal minister who was sentenced to a month in jail last year for preaching against homosexuality appealed the verdict yesterday.
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Sweden's highest court on Friday wrapped up its trial of the man who killed Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh last year, with prosecutors demanding that he be put away behind bars for life.
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A US marine who had pleaded guilty to the murder of an Iraqi civilian asks to change his plea at the last minute.
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Plans to increase the time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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Sgt. Javal Davis pleaded for leniency Thursday in the sentencing phase of his trial for abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib, saying he hoped a few minutes of poor judgment would not end his Army career.
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SAN FRANCISCO - John Walker Lindh asked President Bush on Tuesday to commute his 20-year prison sentence for aiding the Taliban. His lawyer, James Brosnahan, said that Lindh was fighting alongside the Taliban in a civil war against the Northern Alliance, that he is not a terrorist and that he never fought against U.S...
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A prison sentence given to a drink-driver who killed five people is not long enough, say a victim's parents.
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Malaysia&#39;s former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim asked the nation&#39;s highest court to set aside a corruption conviction for which he has already served jail time, seeking to clear his name and pave the way for a return to politics.