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Kimba Wood News From AOL News

Meg Whitman Far From Only Politician With Housekeeper Troubles

By David KnowlesSep 29th 2010 – 2:30PM

(Sept. 29) -- Good help (that won't come back and cause you trouble as you seek political office) is hard to find. Today, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's former housekeeper, an undocumented worker, held a news conference to detail her mistreatment "as a longtime, Latina household employee" in the...

10 Russian Spies Deported After NY Guilty Pleas

Jul 8th 2010 – 3:15PM
Elizabeth Williams, AP

Elizabeth Williams, AP

NEW YORK (July 8) -- Ten Russian agents who infiltrated suburban America and acted as spies for Moscow were deported Thursday after admitting their crimes. The spies left New York for Moscow hours after pleading guilty to conspiracy in a Manhattan courtroom and being sentenced to time served and ordered out of the...

Kimba Wood News From the Web

  • 05/08/12 Jury nullification education still barely 'legal' in... Source: NaturalNews.com (NaturalNews) Jury nullification, a legal concept that dates back to 17th century England, remains perfectly lawful in the United States, according to a ruling by a federal judge last month.
  • 04/19/12 Case Dismissed Against Jury Nullification Advocate Source: City Room - The New York Times A federal judge ordered the dismissal on Thursday of an indictment against a retired chemistry professor who had been charged with jury tampering for advocating the controversial position known as jury nullification while standing on a plaza outside the United States Courthouse in Manhattan.

Background on Kimba Wood

Kimba Maureen Wood (born January 21, 1944) is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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