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STEPHEN CARUSO $1G for ripping carjacker. ......During jury selection, never announce that you think the defendant is "a scumbag." A prospective juror who dropped the vulgar phrase — outraging the trial judge — was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine for contempt of court yesterday. Financial analyst Stephen Caruso, 27, ignited the juror furor by taking one look at the defendant in a Harlem gunpoint carjacking and then telling the judge he couldn't be objective, since he'd been robbed at gunpoint three times himself. "I'm already looking at him," Caruso had told the judge of the defendant. "I think...

Terrorist involved in Madrid and 9/11 bombings released by German court July 18, 2005 German-Syrian Mamoun Darkazanli Germany says terror arrest illegalMIM: If the Germans don't want to hand over one of their citizens, why don't they start proceedings to strip him of his citizenship instead of releasing him to continue his terrorist activity with the use of a German passport?http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/18/germany.extradite/BERLIN, Germany -- Germany's high court has ordered the release of a Syrian-born German man whom Spain wanted extradited in connection with the 2003 Madrid bombings.The Federal Constitutional Court ruled Monday it would be illegal to extradite Mamoun Darkazanli, a...

Republican Candidate Calls Bush Administration “Nazis” Posted by Editor on 2005/6/23 10:37:44 Cary, NC - A candidate for North Carolina Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court has announced on her campaign's blog that she is leaving the Republican Party and denounced the Bush administration's policy on troop withdrawal from Iraq. Rachel Lea Hunter, a Republican and a candidate for Chief Justice, likens Bush’s administration to the “Nazis” and says that all who disagree with the administration are being branded as “traitors”. Hunter is an attorney in Durham, NC with the firm of Browne, Flebotte, Wilson, Horn & Webb....