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MISSOULA, Mont. – A federal judge has ordered a Montana newlywed to be released from jail on her own recognizance while awaiting a murder trial in the death of her husband in Glacier National Park. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch said Thursday that Jordan Linn Graham, 22, of Kalispell did not pose a flight risk because of her strong community ties and did not appear to be a danger to others. Graham allegedly pushed Cody Lee Johnson, 25, face-first off a cliff to his death in the national park on July 7 after the two argued. Earlier that day, prosecutors...

The organizers of tonight's televised gubernatorial debate must allow Reform Party candidate Max Linn to participate, despite questions of whether he fulfilled their entry criteria, a Broward County judge ruled late Monday. Circuit Judge Leroy H. Moe ruled that the organizers' requirement that a candidate show support from at least 10 percent of voters responding to two independent statewide polls was not an appropriate criterion for entry into a public political debate. "The need to know and the want to know by the public outweighs the hoops a candidate might have to jump through," Moe said. Linn filed suit Monday...

Free-Speech Advocate (Barry Lynn) Attempting to Stop Distribution of Video By Rusty Pugh and Bill Fancher April 24, 2002 (AgapePress) - An attorney with a religious liberties law firm says a man who claims to be a champion of free speech is now attempting to censor a videotape produced by an Arizona-based ministry. Barry Lynn, former ACLU counsel and current director for the left-wing group Americans for the Separation of Church and State, recently took part in a debate on whether homosexuality is compatible with Christianity. According to attorney Benjamin Bull with the Alliance Defense Fund, Lynn lost the debate...