Unit 15 Legal EventsSection A1. appeal; overturn2. arrest warrant3. Jury; sentenced4. ruled5. lawsuit6. trying; in custody7. filed; request8. standing trial; for; testimony9. pleaded not guilty 10. handed downSection B1. The Supreme Court inn Libya is due to hear an appeal today against the death sentence i mposed on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were found guilty of deliberately infecting children with HIV at a hospital in Benghazi.2. A German court has convicted a Moroccan man accused of aiding the hijackers who carried out the September 11th , 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States , but acquitted him from direct involvement in the attacks.3. The Chilean Supreme Court has once again stripped the country’s former military ruler General Augusta Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution. General Pinochet can now be charged in a human rights case involving torture and kidnapping.4. A court in San Francisco in the United States has jailed the former Ukrainian Prime Miniser Pavlo Lazarenko for money laundering, fraud and corruption while in office. Mr. Lazarenko was sentenced to nine years and a fine of 10. million dollars.5. U.S. and international authorities have charged more than two dozen people in an online child pornography ring.Key: C B A B DSection CItem 1Most of the 17 people arrested in Canada on Saturday under antiterrorism legislation have appeared in court near Toronto to hear details of the charges against them. Lawyers say some of the group are accused of involvement in an alleged plot to blow up the Canadian Parliament with home-made explosives, taking ministers hostage and even behead them if Muslim prisoners were not released. Others are accused of plotting to take over the headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. All those named appeared to be of South Asian or Middle Eastern origin, five were aged under 18. Tight security was imposed in the area around the courthouse in the Toronto suburb of Bramboton with police snipers posted on nearby roofs.Key:Task 1: T T F F F TTask 2:1.17; on Saturday; anti-terrorism legislation; in court2.South Asian; origin; aged under 183. Tight security; courthouse; police snipersItem 2A federal judge in the United States has ruled that a confession by a man accused of plotting to kill President Bush is admissible in court, even though his lawyers argue that it was obtained through torture by the Saudi security forces. The defendant Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who is a U.S. citizen, is also accused of having links to al-Qaeda. He’s pleaded not guilty to all charges. Mr.Abu Ali was arrested in 2003 while taking a final exam at a Saudi university. He says he was chained to the floor, blindfolded and whipped until he agreed to talk. The Saudi authorities have denied torturing him.Key: T F F T F T T T T FItem 3The American state of California is suing six of the world’s biggest carmakers over greenhouse gas emissions. The State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said he’d seek millions of dollars in compensation for the impact cars have on California’s resources, infrastructure and environment. The case is the first of its kind in the United States, and the companies which include Ford, General Motors and Toyota, accused of Mr.Lockyer of frivolous politics. But speaking on the BBC,Mr.lockyer said they have been forced to act by the federal government’s lack of action to tackle emissions.Key:1.The state of California2. The state attorney general of California3. The impact cars have on California’s resources, infrastructure and environment.4. Ford, General Motors, Toyota5. Frivolous politics.6. Lack of action to tackle emissionsSection DItem 1The former South African Vice President Jacob Zuma ,once widely seen as a future president of the country, has been acquitted of the rape of a woman with HIV. The judge ruled that sex between Mr. Zuma and his accuser was consensual. The legal action against Mr.Zuma created deep rifts within the governing African National Congress. He faces another trial later this year on corruption charges. Our correspondent in Johannesburg , Peter Biles reports.Jacob Zuma’s supporters reacted with jubilation when the not-guilty verdict was announced. His most loyal followers still believed that he could become the nextprevention. At the end of his judgment, Judge Willem van der Merwe said it’s been unacceptable for Mr.Zuma to have had unprotected sex with a women who was HIV positive.Key:1.Rape2. former3. verdict4. with HIV5.his accuser6. consensual 5.unacceptable 8. unprotected sex 9. positive 10. created deep riftserning 12.dwindling political support 13. in tatters14. on corruption chargesItem 2Sudanam Hussein was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity by a court in Baghdad. The charges relate to the killing of 148 Shiite villagers and the torture and deportation of others following an assassination attempt on him in 1982. As the judgment was delivered, the deposed president shouted out “God is great, and down with the invaders”. Reaction to the verdict across Iraq has been mixed. In many parts of the country, there were celebrations among Shiite Muslims and Kurds, long oppressed by Saddam Hussein, but in Sunni areas there were protests and some clashes. The Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the deposed president was a criminal who deserved the punishment he’d been given.Now with a look at reaction elsewhere in the Middle East, here is the BBC’s Ian Panel.This verdict comes as no surprise in the region. Most governments had little time for Saddam Hussein. Although they didn’t support the invasion of his country, few mourned his downfall. For tow countries this verdict has been welcome news. In Iran, a country that fought a long and bloody war with Iraq, a government spokesman said it was a just punishment for his inhuman crime. In Kuwait, a country Saddam invaded, the speaker of Parliament called for Saddam to be hanged without delay. But there has been criticism, especially of the process which many feel has been a one-sided American-controlled trial.Key:Task 1: B D CTask 2: T T T F T T FItem 3By a narrow margin, the U.S. Surpreme Court has struck down the death penalty for murderers under the age of 18. Story from VOA’S Jim Malone.The majority opinion, striking down juvenile death sentences, was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. He noted what he called “the overwhelming weight of international opinion “that has moved against the juvenile death penalty in recent years. Justice Kennedy also wrote that American society views juvenile as in his“We cannot impose capital punishment on offenders who do not demonstrate the same degree of adult blameworthiness, adult culpability and mature judgment as adult offenders do.”The narrow five to four decision affects 19 states that had allowed offenders under the age of 18 to be put to death. Jim Malone, VOA News, Washington.Key :1. The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the death penalty for murderers under the age of 18.2. The international opinion has moved against the juvenile death penalty in recent years.3. American society views juvenile as categorically less culpable than the average criminal due to their lack of maturity and emotional stability.4. Reaction from death penalty opponents was swift and positive.5. The decision won five votes and will affect 19 states.。