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BART fires cop who helped detain Oscar Grant

originally published by: FSGate
26th March 2010

BART’s police department has fired an officer who helped detain train rider Oscar Grant before he was fatally shot by a second officer at Oakland’s Fruitvale Station on Jan. 1, 2009.

Marysol Domenici, 29, was fired Wednesday by interim Police Chief Dash Butler. He followed the recommendation of a law firm BART hired to do an independent internal affairs probe into the shooting by former Officer Johannes Mehserle, who faces a murder trial this summer.

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Death row Briton pleas to US Supreme Court

Linda Cartyoriginally published by: The BBC
26th February 2010

A British grandmother on death row in Texas is lodging a last-ditch appeal with the US Supreme Court.

Linda Carty, 51, faces execution within months unless the court agrees to rehear her abduction and murder case. A video plea in support of Carty, who was born on St Kitts to parents from the British territory of Anguilla, will be submitted to the court.

Campaigners say her conviction in 2002 for the murder of a 25-year-old woman was “catastrophically flawed”. The appeal from her legal team will be made alongside a document from the British government outlining its concerns over her sentence.

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Mother gets new inquest on son killed in Germany

Jeremiah Duggan
Jeremiah Duggan

originally published by: The Local
27th February 2010

A British woman whose son died in Germany in 2003 after becoming involved with a far-right cult, has succeeded in getting authorities to conduct a highly-unusual second inquest into his death.

Erica Duggan has been trying to find out how her son Jeremiah died since he was found dead on a road near Wiesbaden in the early hours of March 27, 2003, according to a report in the British paper The Independent.

He called her that night, telling her he was in trouble, and spelling out the place he was staying, before being interrupted and cut off. Within a few hours the police phoned Duggan to tell her Jeremiah had been found dead.

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