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Judge rules Mexico's ex-attorney general to go to trial in missing students case

Former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam told the judge that there could have been "errors," but that no one had been able to present another version of what happened to the students.

MEXICO CITY — The former attorney general who oversaw Mexico's original investigation into the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from a radical teachers college will go to trial on charges of forced disappearance, not reporting torture and official misconduct, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam conceded there may have been "errors" in the investigation, but he said that in

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