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Clement said he's been making "good steps" in training, which merited his start.

With the urgency and great importance they merited?

The judge said the "vile, threatening and abusive" harassment of a former partner in 2022 on its own merited a custodial sentence.

As a group, these musicians were more apt to die at younger ages than hundreds of thousands of other notable deceased people who merited space on Wikipedia, the pair found.

George Gascón, LA County's top prosecutor, announced on Thursday that new evidence in the case merited a review of their life sentences.