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Judge Williams refused Freedlander's pleas for leniency, noting that two banks had failed and many investors lost their life savings as a result of the \"extensive criminal scheme.\"","Williams ruled unconstitutional the Bush Administration's plan to carry out on-the-spot evictions of suspected drug users and sellers from public housing developments around the country.  Williams cited the \"constitutional guarantee of due process in requiring that except in 'extraordinary circumstances; drug related evictions from public housing be preceded by notice and a hearing.  The mere use or possession of narcotics would not in every case constitute an 'extraordinary situation'.\"","In 2002, Judge Williams found prosecutorial misconduct in the dramatic murder trial in Powhatan County of Beverly Monroe for the alleged 1992 shooting death of her lover, Roger de la Burde, a millionaire land speculator and art collector who claimed to be a French count.","In 2003, Judge Williams ruled \"unconstitutional\" Virginia's ban on Partial-Birth Abortion, blocking the law the day it was supposed to take effect in July 2003. He stated the law violated privacy rights and failed to make an exception for the health of the woman. 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