An Israeli legislator petitioned the nation’s High Court of Justice to reverse President Moshe Katsav’s decision to commute the sentence of a woman convicted of failing to prevent the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Eitan Cabel’s petition stated that Katsav’s decision went against the judgment of three courts that had found Margalit Har-Shefi guilty and refused to overturn her conviction or nine-month sentence.
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