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Warren Jeffs was "deprived ... of the fair trial to which all are entitled under our laws," a justice wrote in the unanimous decision. (Associated Press)
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Marine Gen. James Mattis, named to head U.S. Central Command, arrives Tuesday on Capitol Hill to testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Central Command Commander-nominee Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, left, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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U.S. Central Command Commander-nominee Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, center, smiles on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, prior to testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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U.S. Central Command Commander-nominee Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix arrives to give evidence at the Iraq War Inquiry in London on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talks with Darrell Murphy as he arrives at federal court for closing arguments in his federal corruption trial on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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California's Attorney General Jerry Brown speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles on Monday, July 26, 2010. Mr. Brown said he has subpoenaed hundreds of records from the city of Bell, a Los Angeles suburb under investigation for sky-high salaries paid to its leaders. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Khmer Rouge victim Hong Savath, 47, weeps Monday in Phnom Penh after the bloody regime's chief jailer, Kaing Guek Eav, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, which likely will keep him jailed just 19 years, for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people. (Associated Press)
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Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, is the first senior Khmer Rouge leader ever to be convicted. He ran a top-secret detention center for the state's worst "enemies." (Extraordinary Chambers in the courts of Cambodia via Associated Press)
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South Korean human rights activists stage a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. Mr. Gomes was sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor and fined $700,000 for entering the country illegally and for an unspecified "hostile act." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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A South Korean human rights activist holds up a defaced portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. Mr. Gomes was sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor and fined $700,000 for entering the country illegally and for an unspecified "hostile act." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Chum Mey reacts outside the court hall after a verdict was handed down to Kaing Gek Eav, alias Duch, former S-23 prison commander, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal l in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The tribunal sentenced the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer Monday to 35 years in prison _ the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodia's people. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in London on Monday, July 26, 2010, during which he said he believes there is evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Lizzie Robinson, PA)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, looks on during his sentencing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The U.N.-backed tribunal has found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (AP Photo/ Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, looks on during his sentencing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The U.N.-backed tribunal has found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (AP Photo/ Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, spectators watch the sentencing of Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The U.N.-backed tribunal found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, appears on a television screen of the press center of the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The tribunal opened Monday to hand down a verdict in the first trial of a senior member of the Khmer Rouge regime that turned Cambodia into a vast killing field three decades ago. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Cambodian victim Hong Savath, right, 47, weeps after a verdict was handed down to Kaing Gek Eav, alias Duch, former S-23 prison commander, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The tribunal sentenced the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer Monday to 35 years in prison, the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodia's people. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
