Month / March 19, 2015
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The Trials of Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s Jurors
The Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant with U.S. citizenship the right to be tried before an “impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” By this amendment, a jury is meant to be representative of a cross-section of the community in which the crime in question occurred. But…
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Nigeria’s Nadir
Nigerians presently face a huge decision regarding their upcoming presidential election. The incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will try to maintain his party’s dominance which dates back when the nation resumed democratic elections in 1999. However, he faces Muhammadu Buhari, a former Nigerian military dictator in the 1980s, whose popularity…
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