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"It's been hell," said Billy Bashford after his brother's killer was finally convicted on Friday.

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These suspected criminals were not arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced through a regular course of criminal procedure and neutral adjudication in a court.

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She has significantly increased seizures of the drug compared to her predecessor and her administration has sent dozens of convicted drug cartel members to the US to serve sentences there.

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The mitigation is meant for those who show contrition or really were unjustly convicted.

On Friday, the biggest bank in America asked a Delaware judge to reverse an order requiring it to front the legal bills for Javice, the entrepreneur who was convicted of defrauding the bank in March.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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