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United Nations, New York, 18 February, 2011 - With 80 per cent of the world's people lacking adequate social protection and global inequalities growing, top United Nations officials are calling for a new era of social justice that offers basic services, decently paid jobs, and safeguards for the poor, vulnerable and marginalized. " Social justice is more than an ethical imperative; it is a foundation for national stability and global prosperity," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a message ahead of the World Day of Social Justice, observed on 20 February. " Equal opportunity, solidarity and respect for human rights, these are essential to unlocking the full productive potential of nations and peoples." Full story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37566&Cr=social+protection&Cr1 =
Hughes appealed, alleging that the evidence presented at trial constructively amended the indictment and that the trial judge erred when he refused to give the multiple conspiracies jury instruction the defendant requested.
مرگ ، ننگ ، نفرت و انزجار ابدی بر روح خمینی ولدزنا و ایل و تبارش .... لعنت و مرگ و کثافات عالم بر روی و روح خامنه ای ولدزنا و ایل و تبارش ..... مرگ بر تمام امت ساندیسخور حرامزاده و زنده و مرده شان Hughes also claims that his attorney failed to adequately discuss the contents of the Presentence Report ("PSR") with him in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(c)(3)(A), and also challenges the sentencing judge's findings relating to the quantity of drugs that he was responsible for as well as his leadership role in the crimes |
Limehouse raises the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for the first time in this appeal. This court has observed that "ineffective assistance of counsel claims are best dealt with at the district court level, either through a motion for a new trial, ... or through the collateral relief available under 28 U.S.C. § 2255." United States v. Reiswitz, 941 F.2d 488, 495 (7th Cir.1991). The district court, unlike the appellate court, has had the opportunity to observe counsel's performance firsthand. Further, only the district court can receive evidence relating to the ineffectiveness claim. Thus, this court ordinarily will not consider the merits of such a claim when it is raised for the first time on appeal. United States v. Ray, 828 F.2d 399 (7th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 964, 108 S.Ct. 1233, 99 L.Ed.2d 432 (1988); United States v. Fisher, 772 F.2d 371, 373 (7th Cir.1985) (collecting cases).
http://www.ntv.co.keIt was a sight that many thought they would probably never witness in their lifetime. A Kenyan president publicly defending a position he had taken in the course of discharging his duties. Gone are the days when the head of state didn't have to explain himself and as Robert Nagila reports, president Kibaki has just suffered the first setback as the reality of the new constitution struck.
- Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914).
- Johnson v. United States, 333 U.S. 10 (1948).
- Miranda v. Arizona, 387 U.S. 436 (1966).
- Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431 (1984).
- Unites States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984).
- Murray v. United States, 487 U.S. 533 (1988)
We may, however, attempt to resolve an ineffective assistance claim even without benefit of the district court's views "if the issue is sufficiently clear-cut." Johnson v. United States, 805 F.2d 1284, 1290 (7th Cir.1986). We think that is the case here. "There is a strong presumption that counsel rendered reasonably effective assistance." Reiswitz, 941 F.2d at 495 (citing Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 689, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 2065, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984)). To overcome that presumption, Limehouse must show both that her trial counsel's performance was constitutionally deficient and that "there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceedings would have been different." Strickland, 466 U.S. at 694, 104 S.Ct. at 2068. Limehouse fails to carry this burden.
http://www.ntv.co.keIt appears the protest over Speaker Marende's ruling on the judicial nominations was more else a contest of supremacy than constitutionalism. The ruling appears to have dealt a major blow on the new found unity between Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Suspended Higher Education minister William Ruto.
Limehouse contends that her attorney, as a result of his hearing impairment, permitted the admission of damaging and prejudicial hearsay during the testimony of DEA Agent Andrews. Andrews testified that on his second visit to the Limehouse residence a man later identified as Melvin Williams told him that "Sabrina White" was present at the residence and that he would go get her. Contrary to the defendant's assertion, this statement does not constitute hearsay because it was not offered for the truth of the matter asserted--that a person named Sabrina White was present at the Limehouse residence--but rather to show that Sabrina Limehouse had posed as Sabrina White to receive drugs. Further, Limehouse cannot show that the admission of Agent Andrews' testimony was prejudicial to her defense, as required by Strickland, because the government adduced significant additional evidence that she had posed as Sabrina White to receive drugs.
Limehouse also claims that her attorney's hearing problem caused him to conduct lengthy cross-examinations that were essentially repetitious of the government's case. We need not determine whether counsel's conduct of these cross-examinations was "outside the range of professionally competent assistance," Strickland, 466 U.S. at 690, 104 S.Ct. at 2066, however, because Limehouse has failed to explain how they prejudiced her defense. As we have often stated, "conclusory allegations do not satisfy Strickland 's prejudice component." United States v. Asubonteng, 895 F.2d 424, 429 (7th Cir.1990) (citing cases).UNITED NATIONS (AP) Libya's U.N. ambassadors are calling for leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi to step down.
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Finally, Limehouse raises two ineffective assistance claims not predicated on her attorney's hearing problem. First, she complains that her attorney's failure to object to the verdict form, which listed her as Sabrina Williams F/K/A Sabrina Limehouse A/K/A Sabrina White, constitutes ineffective assistance because the form virtually conceded the "critical issue" in the case--whether Sabrina Limehouse and Sabrina White were the same person. However, there was no impropriety in the court's use of that caption on the verdict form, since it merely reflected the evidence that Limehouse had represented herself to be Sabrina White. Thus, the attorney's failure to object to the form did not constitute ineffective assistance.
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Second, Limehouse asserts that her attorney, by initiating questioning about the presence of marijuana in her residence, introduced prejudicial evidence that should have been excluded under Fed.R.Evid. 404(b). As the government points out, the attorney's decision to raise this issue was a tactical one, designed to advance the defense strategy that Limehouse had nothing to hide from the agents who searched her residence. Trial tactics are not subject to question by a reviewing court in deciding an ineffective assistance claim. United States v. Dyer, 784 F.2d 812, 817 (7th Cir.1986); Arrowood v. Clusen, 732 F.2d 1364, 1369 (7th Cir.1984). Limehouse has failed on direct appeal to establish that she received ineffective assistance of counsel. She may be entitled to pursue this issue--particularly as it relates to counsel's deafness--in a post-conviction proceeding.
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خانواده دانشجوی جان باخته محمد مختاری و صانع ژاله را تهدید کردند ... دو دانشجوی دانشگاه شاهرور و هنر تهران ، محمد مختاری و صانع ژاله که به ضرب گلوله نیروهای لباس شخصی به شهادت رسیده اند. جنازه این شهیدان آزادی در مصادره قاتلینشان قرار دارد .... مراسم تشیع جنازه محمد مختاری ، همانند صانه ژاله با حضور ماموران لباس شخصی ( قاتلین ) برگزار شد. اختیار همه چیز دست آنها بود خانواده مختاری فقط نظاره گر بودند و در مراسم ختم عزیزشان اجازه هیچ دخل و تصرفی نداشتند. تلفن منزل آنها کنترل است و پدر و مادر و نزدیکان او را تهدید کردند که در صورت هرگونه مصاحبه به زندان خواهند افتاد. دوست محمد مختاری در انتها گفت: تیر به پیشانی محمد اصابت کرده و از پشت سرش بیرون زده بود. خیلی دردناک بود. حضور مردم در تظاهرات اول اسفند تسلی بخش دل شکسته خانواده این شهید است. پدر محمد کارمند بازنشسته بانک رفاه است و الان در بانک کارآفرین کار می کند. مجید دیگر برادر محمد است و خارج از کشور زندگی می کند. خانواده محمد هم غم از دست دادن او را در دل داشتند و هم اینکه چطور خبر شهادت او را به برادرش که در غربت زندگی می کند ب... more
All that remains is Limehouse's argument that the evidence was insufficient to sustain her conviction. Limehouse advances two grounds in support of this argument. First, she calls into question the government's proof that the cocaine admitted into evidence at trial was the same substance taken from the Federal Express package, arguing that there was no chain of custody to substantiate this allegation and that the white substance in the original box was "chunkier" than the cocaine produced at trial. Second, she maintains that the government failed to establish that she entered into an agreement with others to possess cocaine with intent to distribute it.
Consider the experience of African American men during and after Reconstruction. The extension of civil and political rights to them also formally linked possession of those rights with citizenship—in the broader sense that civil and political rights were considered essential markers of citizenship and, more than that, prerequisites to participation as full members in the polity, whether at the state or the national level. That link between individual rights and citizenship actually redefined the basis of participation in law and governance. As Redemption and Jim Crow rolled back the legal changes of the Reconstruction era, the subsequent denial of those individual rights had devastating effects for men, denying them what had become the only entry to law and governance. That outcome highlights the problems of relying on the conventional, theoretical legal subject—a (masculine) individual with an unrestricted array of civil and political rights—as the historical standard against which to measure historical change. In legal practice, most men were more like women, in the sense that they never enjoyed the full array of rights associated with that theoretical individual. Assessing change in those terms—that is, the acquisition or loss of individual rights—fails to capture the complexities of most Americans' legal status and the radical changes they experienced in that regard. Moreover, the trajectory of change in the Reconstruction-era South suggests the limits inherent within legal changes that emphasized individual rights and that usually are associated with democracy and political progress. Although individual rights held great promise, they arrived with new legal institutions that undermined other forms of access to law that had existed within a localized system. In that localized system, a person's subordination and lack of rights were not always a barrier either to making claims on the community or to participation in the basic processes of community governance.
| Hiram I |
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| King of Tyre |
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| Reign |
980 – 947 BC |
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| Born |
1000 BC |
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Tyre, presumed |
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| Died |
947 or 946 BC |
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| Predecessor |
Abibaal, ?? – 981 BC |
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Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus I, Ba‘l-mazzer I) 946 – 930 BC |
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Dynasty of Abibaal and Hiram I |
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Abibaal |
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unknown |
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Hiram I ( Hebrew: חִירָם, "high-born"; Standard Hebrew Ḥiram, Tiberian vocalization Ḥîrām, Arabic: حيرام), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the Phoenician king of Tyre. He reigned from 980 BC to 947 BC, succeeding his father, Abibaal. Hiram was succeeded as king of Tyre by his son Baal-Eser I. [1] Hiram is also mentioned in the writings of Menander of Ephesus, as preserved in Josephus’s Against Apion, where some additional information is given that is not found in the Bible. One such item is that Hiram lived 53 years, and reigned 34. During Hiram's reign, Tyre grew from a satellite of Sidon into the most important of Phoenician cities, and the holder of a large trading empire. He suppressed the rebellion of the first Tyrean colony at Utica, near the later site of Carthage (Against Apion i:18). | 46 | The emphasis on southern legal culture and African Americans' position within it thus reveals an important historical counternarrative, one in which individual rights were only one way to imagine and produce claims on the state. African Americans' persistent use of the legal system reveals not just the fight to obtain individual rights, but also the presence of a broader legal culture in which citizenship and participation in governance were not defined exclusively in those terms. Local court records indicate that many white southerners approached the legal system and other institutions of state governance before and after the Civil War laden with the same expectations.
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In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence supporting Limehouse's conviction, we must examine the evidence in the light most favorable to the government. As we have stated elsewhere, "[t]he test is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, 'any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.' " United States v. Pritchard, 745 F.2d 1112, 1122 (7th Cir.1984) (quoting Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 2789, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979) (emphasis in original)). An appellate court may overturn a jury's verdict " '[o]nly when the record contains no evidence, regardless of how it is weighed, from which the jury could find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.' " United States v. Macias, 930 F.2d 567, 572 (7th Cir.1991) (quoting United States v. Redwine, 715 F.2d 315, 319 (7th Cir.1983)).
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The Bible says that he allied himself with King David of the United Kingdom of Israel as well as that the status of both Kings was equal and that the treaty between them was a parity treaty (2 Samuel 05:11, 1 Kings 05:01, 1 Chronicles 14:01). After the death of King David, Solomon, a son of David, succeeded to David's throne and Hiram continued the relation with Israel through King Solomon, the upcoming power of the region. They were also equal ("אחי", meaning "brothers" 1 Kings 9:13, Amos 1:9) [2] Through the alliance with Solomon, Hiram ensured himself access to the major trade routes to Egypt, Arabia and Mesopotamia. The two kings also joined forces in starting a trade route over the Red Sea, connecting the Israelite harbour of Ezion-Geber with a land called Ophir ( 2 Chronicles 8:16,17). Both kings grew rich through this trade and Hiram sent Solomon architects, workmen and cedar wood to build the First Temple in Jerusalem. He also extended the Tyrean harbour, enlarged the city by joining the two islands on which it was built, and built a royal palace and a temple for Melqart ( Against Apion i:17).
Hiram’s beginning date is derived from the statement of Josephus, citing both Tyrian court records and the writings of Menander, [3] relating that 143 years passed between the start of construction of Solomon’s Temple until the founding of Carthage (or until Dido’s flight that led to its founding). Josephus also related that Hiram’s reign began 155 years and 8 months before this event, and that Temple construction began in his twelfth year, 143 years before the building of Carthage. The redundancy inherent in these multiple ways of expressing the total years (the 143 years is mentioned twice, and the 155 years minus 12 years once) has guaranteed that all extant copies of Josephus/Menander that contain these passages give 155 years and 8 months between the start of Hiram’s reign and the foundation of Carthage. (One copy has 155 years and 18 months, but this is an obvious error for 155 years and eight months.) Modern historians have therefore had confidence in the 155-year figure and have used it to date Hiram’s reign. However, classical authors give two dates for the Carthage’s founding: 825 BC and 814 BC. The 814 date is derived from the Greek historian Timaeus (c. 345-260 BC) and the 825 date from the writings of Pompeius Trogus (1st century BC). The 814 date is more generally accepted, and so earlier historians calculated the start of Hiram’s reign as occurring in 814 + 155 = 969 BC. know4life just uploaded a video:
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Limehouse's chain of custody argument must be rejected because the evidence clearly supports the jury's conclusion that the cocaine received in evidence was in fact the same substance recovered from the Federal Express package. At trial, the Federal Express employee who handled the intercepted package testified that the cocaine offered in evidence generally resembled the suspicious white powder she spotted leaking from the Federal Express package. In addition, Agent Andrews affirmed that he tested the white powder in the Federal Express package and determined that it was cocaine. Limehouse failed to raise any objection when the cocaine was offered in evidence and stipulated that it was cocaine. She cannot now challenge its authenticity.
The evidence was also sufficient for a jury to conclude that Limehouse participated in a conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute it. To sustain a conspiracy charge, the government need only prove the existence of a conspiracy and a participatory link to the defendant. See United States v. Caudill, 915 F.2d 294, 297 (7th Cir.1990). We must, moreover, " 'accept circumstantial evidence as support, even sole support, for a [conspiracy] conviction.' " Id. (quoting United States v. Durrive, 902 F.2d 1221, 1229 (7th Cir.1990)). The evidence here demonstrated that a package containing over 200 grams of cocaine was sent via Federal Express from a "Mel Johnson" of Los Angeles, California to a "Sabrina White" at the defendant's address. Although Limehouse initially denied that she was Sabrina White and refused to accept the substitute package, she signed for the package as "Sabrina White" the very next day. The jury could properly find that the excuses Limehouse advanced at trial to explain why she accepted the Federal Express package under an assumed name were not credible.
Further, the evidence here went beyond merely establishing a link between Limehouse and the single Federal Express package containing cocaine. Limehouse was caught in possession of approximately 350 manila envelopes suitable for packaging cocaine for resale. The evidence also established that, during the three weeks preceding the interception of the package of cocaine, Federal Express delivered three similar packages to Limehouse's residence. Significantly, one of those three packages was accepted and signed for by a person also purporting to be Sabrina White. Finally, records of numerous telephone calls made from March 1989 to July 1989 between defendant's home and various telephone numbers in the Los Angeles area further connected Limehouse to the individuals responsible for sending her the intercepted package of cocaine. The evidence of an agreement is admittedly slim in this case. It is, however, enough--if only barely--to support the jury's conclusion that Sabrina Limehouse participated in a conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute.
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For the foregoing reasons, Limehouse's conviction is
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