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Thursday, July 15, 2004

at least some courts understand the term terrorist

it seems that a federal court understands that you can’t just slap the term “terrorist” on anyone that does bad things….

Conviction nixed after ‘terrorist’ remark [ap via seattle post intelligencer]

A federal appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a man accused of arson and weapons charges, ruling that prosecutors improperly inflamed a jury by calling him a terrorist a day before the first anniversary of the 2001 attacks.

perhaps there’s hope in this united states of america. perhaps.

posted by roj at 3:26 am