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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

“Judge Denies Komisarjevsky’s Request To Make Statement; Defendant In Cheshire Home Invasion Case Asked To Respond To Petit Family’s Characterizing Him As ‘Evil'”: The Hartford Courant has this news update.

The trial court’s ruling can be accessed here.

Posted at 3:50 PM by Howard Bashman



Ninth Circuit grants rehearing en banc to decide whether convicted “Millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam’s sentence was too light: You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link.

The ruling of a divided three-judge panel, whose majority ordered resentencing and reassignment of the case to a different district judge, can be accessed here. My earlier coverage of that ruling appears here and here.

Posted at 9:54 AM by Howard Bashman