"If the court orders another trial, if she is convicted at that trial and if the conviction is upheld by the highest court, then Italy could seek her extradition, " Dalla Vedova said Monday.

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But the Church lawyer who helped Archbishop Weakland prepare the case against Fr Murphy says that he was not under orders to halt the trial.

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She has issued opinions and orders resolving pre-trial disputes in civil cases, written reports and recommendations to district court judges on a variety of issues, conducted preliminary proceedings in criminal cases, and presided over 14 trials with the consent of the parties.

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The alleged assassins are on trial in Croatia but the gangster accused of giving the orders for his killing is being prosecuted in Belgrade.

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In the last week of his trial, Duch argued that international law did not apply to him because he was following orders.

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Their trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard defence claims that William Burns, acting on orders from Stewart Gillespie, paid Armour Donnell to carry out the shooting.

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Mr Bascomb's understandable distaste for his subject does not prevent him giving a good flavour of Eichmann's slippery arguments once he went on trial: sometimes denying that he did anything wrong, sometimes saying he was only obeying orders, sometimes pleading other extenuating circumstances.

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The orders were brought in for cases where there was not enough evidence to bring suspects to trial.

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