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What We've Found: Court-ordered humiliation, SCOTUS considers prosecutor-lawsuits, immigrants get settlement, extraordinary rendition appealed, protests in Iran and fire adds to SEPTA strike chaos
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What We've Found: Court-ordered humiliation, SCOTUS considers prosecutor-lawsuits, immigrants get settlement, extraordinary rendition appealed, protests in Iran and fire adds to SEPTA strike chaos
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
The Bedford County courthouse granted probation to two women convicted of theft, on the condition that they sit outside the courthouse for four-and-a-half hours yesterday, holding signs that read: "I stole from a 9-year-old on her birthday! Don't steal or this could happen to you!"
The U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to hear a case over whether prosecutors may be sued for framing defendants before trial proceedings have begun.
The U.S. government has agreed to pay $1.26 million to five immigrant men who were rounded up, kept in conditions they allege to be inhumane and deported following the 9-11 attacks.
An opinion is expected soon in the first court case appealing the practice of "extraordinary rendition" -- in which terrorism suspects are seized in one country but questioned in another. The case concerns a Muslim cleric whom 26 Americans are charged with abducting from the streets of Milan six years ago.
Anti-government protesters in Iran, who were demonstrating against government-sanctioned rallies to commemorate the takeover of the U.S. Embassy that resulted in the hostage crisis 30 years ago, were brutally beaten and sprayed with tear gas by state police.
A fire tore through the first car of an R-5 train already crowded by passengers displaced from their regular routes by the ongoing SEPTA strike. No passengers were reported injured.
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