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Lessons from Lubanga
the announcement of a verdict next month by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the trial of former Liberian president and blood diamonds purveyor Charles Taylor; and a guilty plea in the case of Guantanamo detainee and former CIA captive Majid
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:51P
Holder tells Vanderbilt law students that the DOJ has record health care fraud
US Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department is continuing a concerted crackdown on the perpetrators of health care fraud and other financial crimes that harm consumers and cost taxpayers billions of dollars. NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:49P
Holder tells Vanderbilt law students that the DOJ has record health care fraud
US Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department is continuing a concerted crackdown on the perpetrators of health care fraud and other financial crimes that harm consumers and cost taxpayers billions of dollars. NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:49P
Mayor Rob Ford's former brother-in-law gets 18 years for brutal knife attack
Peter Edwards Staff Reporter Mayor Rob Ford's former brother-in-law, Ennio Stirpe, glared at a judge and cursed after hearing he had been sentenced to 18 years in prison for a knife attack that blinded a Vaughan woman in one eye.
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:35P
War crimes milestone
The precedent-setting three-year trial showed that Lubanga fought to control the resource-rich northeastern Ituri region of Congo in 2002 and 2003, using children as young as eight as bodyguards, sex slaves and fighters. Lubanga was a regional warlord
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:33P
Haynes and Boone | Jonathan Pressment and David Siegal in the New York Law
New York City did not overstep its authority when it decided to contract with institutional legal service providers to represent indigent criminal defendants in conflict cases instead of assigning those cases to private practitioners under Article 18-B
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:27P
Haynes and Boone | Jonathan Pressment and David Siegal in the New York Law
New York City did not overstep its authority when it decided to contract with institutional legal service providers to represent indigent criminal defendants in conflict cases instead of assigning those cases to private practitioners under Article 18-B
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:27P
Brazil judge rejects attempt to try former army colonel
Prosecutors wanted Sebastiao de Moura to face criminal charges over the kidnap of five leftist guerrillas in the 1970s. But Judge Joao Matos ruled on Friday that the charges would run counter to Brazil's 1979 amnesty law.
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:22P
China's Secret Detention Law Meant to Frighten Citizenry, Critics Contend
By Matthew Robertson & Ariel Tian A controversial revision to China's criminal procedure law was pushed through despite fierce resistance from the public, and it was done in the most public forum possible--deliberately to create an atmosphere of fear,
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:22P
Israeli war crimes on Palestinians UN ignored its own reports and resolutions?
The members of the Fact Finding Mission included Justice Richard Goldstone, Head of Mission; former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Updated: 03/16/2012 05:14P
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