Law_Crime

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich arrives at federal court, briefcase in hand, as jury selection continues in his second corruption trial on Monday in Chicago. Blagojevich, who was convicted of one count in his original trial, faces 20 counts at his second trial.

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** FILE ** Then-U.S. Chief District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the Northern District of California speaks at a legal conference in Seattle in November 2010. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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HEATHER MURDOCK/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Donata and Vestina are 11- and 9-year-old sisters who were raped by a cowherd after being grabbed while walking home from the market. Rape in Congo is widespread and rarely prosecuted. The United Nations Children's Fund says it treated 16,000 rape victims there last year; about half were children.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Investigators collect evidence at King Soopers grocery store morning in Boulder, Colo., where a suspect in a case involving an undetonated pipe bomb and two propane tanks at a Denver-area shopping mall on April 20 was arrested.

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Gov. Martin O'Malley and his son, William, pay respects at the casket of longtime Maryland politician William Donald Schaefer in the State House in Annapolis. (Associated Press)

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Janet Jenkins, of Fair Haven, Vt., shows a photo of her daughter, Isabella, who just turned 9. She has been involved in a same-sex custody battle with Ms. Miller for more than seven years in a case that has implications for parental rights and state laws on civil unions. (Associated Press)

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Maryland Delegate Pat McDonough, Baltimore County Republican, plans to sue to block implementation of the state Dream Act. (Rodney Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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"I think we're in pretty good shape, and we're definitely going to find the young man who left the premises," interim DYRS Director Neil A. Stanley said. Tips from the community and information gathered by law enforcement are helping authorities track down the youth, Mr. Stanley said. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** In this photo from Jan. 25, 2011, Dr. Conrad Murray, singer Michael Jackson’s personal physician, appears in Los Angeles Superior Court, where Murray pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s 2009 death. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, wants the Justice Department to halt Utah's guest-worker program for illegal immigrants, calling it "unconstitutional." (Associated Press)

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Yoweri Museveni (Associated Press)

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Ugandan military police arrest a demonstrator during Monday's "walk to work" protest against the high cost of fuel and food in Kampala. The same day, police arrested Kizza Besigye, the country's top opposition leader, for the third time in a week. Mr. Besigye and about a dozen members of parliament were arrested while they were trying to walk to work. (Associated Press)

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A nurse tends to a victim of post-election violence at St. Gerard's Hospital in Kaduna. In the hospital's morgue lay the bodies of victims shot, burned and in one case disemboweled in rioting that swept Kaduna in the aftermath of Saturday's presidential vote. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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A woman sees a relative lying dead on the ground after he was killed by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in December 2010. (Associated Press)

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Mexican federal police and army soldiers guard a U.S. Embassy vehicle after it came under attack by gunmen on a highway between Mexico City and Monterrey in February. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in the attack. Many of Zetas' targets have been Mexican military and police personnel, but in recent years, U.S. law enforcement authorities also have come under attack. (Associated Press)