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Lawyers for the family of Hae Min Lee, the Baltimore high schooler whose slaying was profiled on the hit podcast “Serial,” asked appellate judges Thursday to reinstate a murder conviction against the man once blamed for her death. A three-judge panel of the Appellate Court of Maryland heard arguments from both sides of the case involving Adnan Syed, who was convicted of the 1999 killing of his former girlfriend. Syed was released from prison last year after prosecutors and a judge sided with his advocates, who have long claimed that his conviction was flawed. Outside the courthouse in Annapolis, Syed described 24 years of "unnoticed" pain his family has endured. “It’s just really hard for us. It’s hard for my dad. It’s hard for my mom," Syed, walking alongside loved ones, told reporters. "It’s hard for my younger brother. It seems like our family, we just always go unnoticed." Syed said he sympathizes with Lee’s family, but he urged the court to side with him. … [Read more...] about Hae Min Lee’s family demands appellate court reinstate Adnan Syed’s murder conviction

Tech giant Google has reportedly asked a U.S. judge to reject a recent antitrust complaint filed against the company by the Department of Justice. Bloomberg reports that Google has asked a U.S. judge to reject the DOJ’s antitrust complaint regarding its utter dominance of the digital advertising market. The business’s most recent action demonstrates its resolve to contest the lawsuit, which was brought earlier this year with the support of eight states. The case aims to dismantle Google’s ad-technology division, the company’s primary source of income. Sabo mocks Google CEO Sundar Pichai (unsavoryagents.com) In the document it filed on Monday, Google argued that the lawsuit did not satisfy the legal requirements for a monopoly and did not take into account the company’s main rivals in the online advertising market. The business claimed that it is incorrect for the DOJ to portray Google’s business decisions over the previous 15 years as evidence of a plot to gain power … [Read more...] about Google Asks Judge to Dismiss Government’s Advertising Antitrust Case

A group of attorneys representing a former Mexican border state governor said various government figures from Mexico’s ruling party colluded to “fabricate a false criminal case” in a failed attempt to arrest and remove the politician who belongs to a rival party. The attorneys announced they filed a criminal complaint with Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office. The individuals in the alleged collusion include the current Tamaulipas Governor Americo Villarreal, Mexico’s former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit Santiago Nieto, Federal Judge Ivan Aaron Zeferin Hernandez, and others as part of an alleged political witch-hunt. During a news conference on Monday, attorney Javier Coello and other attorneys from his firm announced the move and presented video and photographic evidence to back up their claims. The attorneys demanded their day in court. “The former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) Santiago Nieto, in collusion with then-Senator Americo Villarreal … [Read more...] about Political Rivals Fabricated Criminal Case Against Former Mexican Governor, Say Attorneys

Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news and updates from the campaign trail. Subscribe now to get Fox News Politics newsletter in your inbox . NEVER MISS A MOMENT — Check out the latest news on campaigns and politics at FoxNews.com TRAGEDY: A Christian elementary school near Nashville was rocked by tragedy Monday when a shooter (a former student who identifies as a transgender man) entered the building and killed three students and three members of the faculty. Sen. Josh Hawley says it should be investigated as a hate crime... Read more: Nashville school shooting should be investigated as hate crime, Hawley says ANTI-PRAYER: Some left-leaning commentators mocked the idea of offering prayer during the horrific Nashville tragedy, since it happened at a Christian school… Read more: Nashville Christian school shooting: Leftists mock prayer as community reels from tragedy A police officer … [Read more...] about Fox News Politics: Nashville shooting sparks familiar political battles — and new ones

In proposing his judicial overhaul, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has said he was restoring the balance of power between elected lawmakers and unelected judges. “It is not the end of democracy, it is the strengthening of democracy,” Mr. Netanyahu said last week, before a huge wave of protest and civil unrest forced him to put his proposals on hold . But Mr. Netanyahu’s legalistic argument obscured what was at stake, and the outpouring on the streets has in part reflected the success of his opponents in persuading Israelis that his plan actually threatened to severely undercut their country’s democracy, not strengthen it. Key to making that case has been the example of other countries in which diminishing the judiciary has become a tool for fatally wounding democracy. “We have studied this dimension of so-called judicial reform in Hungary and Poland and Turkey, and we were aware of what was coming,” said Yaniv Roznai, a law professor at Reichman University in the … [Read more...] about Netanyahu Opponents Used Dangers of ‘Reform’ by Autocrats to Sound Alarm

By Casey Tolan , CNN Updated 1858 GMT (0258 HKT) February 27, 2023 (CNN) In the parking lot of New Jerusalem Church in Jackson, Mississippi, volunteers handed out free cases of bottled water to a line of arriving cars last week -- a new normal in a state capital that has struggled with the fallout of a failing water system . But inside the church, a parade of pastors and organizers addressing the crowd railed against another threat they described as dire to the city's future: their state legislature. Republican state lawmakers are pushing "a takeover of the city of Jackson and disenfranchising local voters," declared Danyelle Holmes, a local activist. "They're banking on us to be quiet. They're banking on us to back down." The T-shirt she wore underscored the political mood of the event -- and the siege mentality that city leaders say they're feeling: JACKSON VS. EVERYBODY. A proposal in the Mississippi legislature to reshape Jackson's criminal justice system has … [Read more...] about A proposed ‘takeover’ has sparked a battle for power in one of America’s Blackest big cities