Mr Sacks's thought-crime was to say that all faiths are important.

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"For everyone who knows Dmitrichenko, the very idea that he could have thought of and ordered this crime - committed in such a brutal manner - is absurd, " read their open letter.

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The Vineyard recently had its first murder in 20 years, when a man from Oak Bluffs was stabbed to death in what is thought to have been a drug-related crime.

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Another of his legal advisers, Kevin Jon Heller, said that from the scope of the trial - thought to include 1.2 million pages of evidence, numerous crime scenes and hundreds of witness - it was understandable why Mr Karadzic, who is not a trained lawyer, had stayed away.

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Under cross-examination by the defence, crime scene investigators were asked if they thought a photograph taken of the outside of the house showed another piece of wood.

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In this hypothetical scenario, those 10 years in prison would, practically speaking, have consisted of six months for his original crime (the sentence Ortiz actually thought he deserved) plus a nine-and-a-half-year prison term for exercising his constitutional right to a trial.

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Lawmakers should give serious thought to junking the current anti-money-laundering system and figuring out smarter ways to fight crime.

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Supporters of the ban (not including anti-gun groups who thought it didn't go far enough in the first place) claimed that gun crime would skyrocket when the ban was lifted.

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