John Seewer

December 11, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

By JOHN SEEWER

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March 14, 2007 | Law.com

Supreme Court nominees will face bitter and partisan confirmation battles, Justice Antonin Scalia told an audience on Tuesday at the University of Toledo. He added that selecting a nominee is no longer about finding someone fair, it's about finding someone who agrees with those who make the choice. "It's crazy," he said. "It's like having a mini-constitutional convention every time you pick a Supreme Court justice." Scalia, confirmed 98-0 by the Senate in 1986, said he wouldn't get 60 votes today.

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March 14, 2007 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court nominees will face bitter and partisan confirmation battles, Justice Antonin Scalia told an audience on Tuesday at the University of Toledo. He added that selecting a nominee is no longer about finding someone fair, it's about finding someone who agrees with those who make the choice. "It's crazy," he said. "It's like having a mini-constitutional convention every time you pick a Supreme Court justice." Scalia, confirmed 98-0 by the Senate in 1986, said he wouldn't get 60 votes today.

By John Seewer

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October 22, 2009 | Daily Report Online

TOLEDO, Ohio AP - Three Ohio men convicted of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq were sentenced in federal court Wednesday to more than eight years in prison.Mohammad Amawi, 29, received a 20-year term, with credit for three years he has already spent in custody. He will remain under lifetime supervision upon his release, U.

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August 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

TOLEDO, Ohio AP - A former University of Toledo basketball player has been charged with point shaving, according to a federal bill of information filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit.Sammy Villegas, who played basketball for four years at Toledo and has followed that with a professional career in his native Puerto Rico, is accused of shaving points in games during the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.

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August 05, 2008 | Daily Report Online

LIMA, Ohio AP - A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black.The all-white jury found Sgt. Joseph Chavalia not guilty of misdemeanor charges of negligent homicide and negligent assault.

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March 13, 2007 | Daily Report Online

BLUFFTON, Ohio AP - Just over a week ago, Ryan Baightel ushered his teammates out of the smoke-filled wreckage of their charter bus. On Monday night, the team captain led them into a memorial service to honor five Bluffton University players and the bus driver and his wife who were killed in the crash in Atlanta. Carrying a candle, Baightel lit the first of seven candles to remember those who died.

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December 12, 2007 | Law.com

A pregnant Ohio attorney who admitted that she fabricated her kidnapping left her family behind because she "experienced a meltdown," her husband said Tuesday. Investigators said the woman actually drove to the Atlanta area, where she was found three days later outside an amusement park. Relatives said both the attorney and her father, who is a judge, had received threatening calls that were real and "still of great concern to the family."

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