Prisoners in sentence appeal win
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Appeal judges rule the government acted unlawfully by keeping some prisoners in jail for 'too long'.
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A state appeals court Friday unanimously upheld ex-Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry's murder convictions and life sentences for a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham
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A divided federal appeals court upheld a new law stripping judges of the authority to review the cases of foreign prisoners held at GuantÃ¡namo Bay.
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Â· Decision expected soon on whether to hold retrialÂ· Four convicted men to be sentenced today
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Barry George, the man convicted of the murder of the BBC presenter Jill Dando, has won the right to a second appeal against his conviction, the Criminal Cases Review Commission will announce today.
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LONDON -- Nine terrorism suspects imprisoned without trial under tough British security laws took an appeal to the country&#39;s top court Monday, arguing that their detention was inconsistent with Britain&#39;s democratic principles.
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The top US Court will hear an appeal by Guantanamo inmates who want to challenge their detention.
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A man found guilty of killing a Welsh tourist at a railway station in France has his jail term reduced by 10 years on appeal.
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BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- The controversial four-year, three-month prison sentence given to a blind legal activist for disrupting traffic and damaging property was upheld by a Chinese court Friday morning and immediately condemned by the activist's attorneys.
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By Jay F. Marks, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 2--An appeals court ruled Thursday an Oklahoma County judge did not overstep his bounds when he ordered hundreds of inmates to be moved from the county jail to a state prison in September.
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Men jailed by judge who said they were 'intoxicated' by extremist propaganda are freed by court of appeal
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a death row appeal from a Pennsylvania man who says jurors should have been told they could have sentenced him to prison without parole.
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An Islamic appeal court in Nigeria today overturned a sentence of death by stoning handed down to a 29-year-old pregnant woman for having sex out of wedlock.
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A federal appeals court ruled Friday against four British men who contend they were systematically tortured and their religious rights abused throughout their two-year detention at Guantanamo Bay.
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The Court of Appeal quashes the convictions of five young Muslim men jailed over extremist literature.
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BOGOTA -- Three men who have been linked to the Irish republican movement were sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday by a top Colombian court that overturned their acquittal for training leftist guerrillas in terrorist techniques. But Colombia's attorney general Luis Camilo Osorio said late last night that the men had fled the country and he appealed to the ...
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Three Irishmen acquitted of training Colombian Marxist guerrillas are found guilty on appeal.