The court therefore ordered a hand recount of the 9,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County
37 Republican officials in New Mexico have asked a court to authorize a hand recount, citing anomalies in the voting count of a small county.
At one point, her court-appointed lawyer placed a hand on her shoulder as if to reassure her.
A court handed a rare victory to journalists in a long-running legal battle with the government, acquitting a reporter for the banned newspaper The Daily News of charges that he had worked without a license required by the Media and Information Commission.
A court has handed a businessman an £11,000 bill after he was convicted of speeding.
He in fact appears to have accepted marriage equality in New York, where the legislature passed a law rather than a court handing down a decision, noting that "that's a different story" from what happened in Iowa.
It took six years for a court to hand down a death sentence, and the victim's family deferred the execution a number of times.
The current law allows courts to hand down a sentence of less than seven years for "adequate and special reasons," a provision omitted in the bill.
One prominent Beijing lawyer, Liu Xiaoyuan, noted that it was highly unusual for courts to hand down a death sentence to someone who had turned himself in.
A court handed down a suspended eight-month prison term to a 42-year-old man who went on a spending spree after his bank deposited $172,000 into his account by mistake.
Tensions escalated last month after a court handed down a death sentence against the country's leading Shia cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, a driving force behind anti-government demonstrations in 2011.
