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More than two years since leaving her prison cell, the woman who
became the grinning face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal
spends most of her days confined to the four walls of her home.
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The U.S. military's highest court is scheduled to hear the appeal
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Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The case of former Sgt. Michael J. Smith
is the first one in the scandal to go before the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington. Military jurors
previously found that Smith let his unmuzzled Belgian shepherd
threaten three detainees at the prison. They also found the Fort
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lick peanut butter off other soldiers' bodies.Smith, of Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., is questioning whether the evidence against him
was sufficient and whether the military judge gave adequate jury
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Looks like the University of Illinois admissions scandal could have
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said Thursday he will ask his fellow commissioners to recommend
that the school's entire board of trustees resign because of the
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Military court hearing Graner's Abu Ghraib appeal
The alleged ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq is appealing to the military's highest court.The U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington will hear arguments
Monday from lawyers for Spc. Charles Graner and the government.The
Army reservist from Uniontown, Pa., is serving 10 years for
stacking naked prisoners into a pyramid, knocking one of them out
with a punch and ordering prisoners to perform sex acts while other
soldiers took pictures in 2003.The defense says it was wrongly
denied access to then-classified documents showing that some of the
detainee treatment reflected "enhanced interrogation techniques"
approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.The government says
any relevant information was already publicly available.
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Even the doctrine of absolute judicial immunity proved to be too
weak a defense for the two disgraced former Luzerne County judges
who are the leading figures in Pennsylvania's "kids-for-cash"
scandal. A federal judge has ruled that the pair -- Michael T.
Conahan and Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. -- are immune only for actions
they took in court or while ruling on cases, but that they can
still be sued for their roles in an alleged conspiracy to take
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