Extradition reopened; Justice denies it withheld evidence about Ivan the Terrible

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The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Jun 5, 1992, reopened the extradition case of John Demjanjuk, who was extradited to Israel under suspicion of being a Nazi concentration camp guard and whose death sentence for killing Jews while so employed is currently being appealed in Israel. The US appeal occurred on the court's own initiative and concerns evidence not part of the record from sources such as news accounts that John Demjanjuk is not the concentration camp guard 'Ivan the Terrible.' Reopening a case on the court's own motion and based on evidence not part of the record are both without precedent.

History, War crimes, Treblinka (Concentration camp), Demjanjuk, John

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Final justice; limiting death row appeals

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The Supreme Court is moving toward more support for the death penalty and limitations on habeas corpus appeals. Capital punishment opponents accuse the court of legislating from the bench what Congress and the President so far have not done. The Court issued three important capital punishment decisions in 1991: McCleskley v Zant, Coleman v Thompson, and Payne v Tennessee. In these 6-3 rulings the Court required that all grounds for habeas corpus be included in the first appeal, that the first appeal be filed on time, and that victim-impact and character evidence be allowed in capital punishment trials.

Analysis, Capital punishment, Habeas corpus

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Minor adjustments; judge, as a last resort, may jail a girl who ignores an order to visit her father, appeals court says

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The Illinois case of Marshall v. Nussbaum concerns a judge jailing a 12-year-old and grounding her 8-year-old sister because they refused to comply with a visitation order with their father. The children and their mother argue that the court has no right to interfere in parent-child discipline and hope to convince the Illinois Supreme Court of this fact. Howard Davidson, director of the ABA Center on Children and the Law, states the case could have been avoided had ABA policy of providing children who are the center of child custody disputes with their own counsel been followed.

Visitation rights (Domestic relations), Illinois, Parent and child (Law)

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