21. Last week, a judicial panel of the Organization of American States meeting in Rio de Janeiro ruled the Helms-Burton violated international law. 22. Lerner, a Republican and former chief administrative judge of the Queens courts, was recommended by his local judicial screening panel for its appeals court. 23. Nor, they said, did the law grant the judicial panel the authority to discipline independent counsels. 24. On Friday, Mandela appointed a judicial panel to investigate a secret report on a coup plot, but he gave no details. 25. One of the three is an appellate judge and so far King has put herself on all the judicial panels. 26. Reno must now decide whether there is enough specific, credible evidence of wrongdoing to warrant asking a special judicial panel to appoint an independent counsel. 27. So far, a special master and two judicial panels have rejected that effort. 28. The Colorado law was modeled on a law in Nebraska, the only other state to use the judicial panel method. 29. The Justice Department has said, however, that it would not enforce that provision of the new law until the judicial panel reviews the matter. 30. The judicial panel will take up the measure next month. |
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