UPDATE ~ Jury recommends death for Peterson News
UPDATE ~ Jury recommends death for Peterson

[JURIST] A jury in Redwood City, California, has recommended that Scott Peterson be sentenced to death for the murder of his wife Laci and their unborn son Conner. Judge Alfred A. Delucchi will formally sentence Peterson on February 25. CourtTV provides background on the Peterson case.

5:10 PM ET – NBC-10 TV in Los Angeles has a full story on the sentencing here. Reflecting on the public frenzy over a trial that had few general legal implications, but was covered to saturation on major media and cable outlets, Bryan Robertson of ABC News recently offered his views on Why We Were Infatuated with the Peterson Case.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

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