BEIJING -- Gu Kailai's day in court will likely be soon - and short. Now that the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been indicted for murder, Chinese authorities are expected to proceed quickly on orders of a leadership keen to move past a huge scandal that has complicated its once-a-decade political transition. Gu's legal proceedings could be under way in as little as 10 days, with an outcome likely to remove her from the public eye, at least, and that could even result in her execution. Her indictment was announced Thursday. She and a family aide were charged with murdering a British businessman with whom the Bo family had close ties, the official Xinhua News Agency said in...
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