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France Plans to Cut Powerful Judges Down to Size
The Associated Press
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France's investigating judges are a powerful lot: They can order phone taps and home searches, interrogate terrorists and bring down politicians. Now, one has even ordered former French President Jacques Chirac to stand trial. But those sweeping powers may soon end. President Nicolas Sarkozy's government is drawing up a reform plan to do away with investigating judges, a two-century-old Napoleonic legacy, and give more power to prosecutors.
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The 2009 Global 100
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