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Burden on Colorado prosecutors to prove sanity
"What they're saying is, 'When we don't like what the independent state-hired psychiatrist finds, we want to be able to get our own hired guns and find somebody to say that he is not insane,'" said Denver criminal defense attorney Dan Recht, a former public
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:53A

BIR fires P150-M tax-evasion charges vs Corona, close kin
THREE months after he was ousted from office, former Chief Justice Renato Corona is now facing tax-evasion charges filed by the Bureau of the Internal Revenue (BIR) before the Department of Justice (DOJ) for his alleged failure to file his income-tax returns
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:52A

Air India Abolishes Productivity Linked Incentives (PLI)
In view of the acceptance of the Justice Dharmadhikari Committee Report on pay and wage rationalization of Air India by the Union Civil Aviation Minister Shri Ajit Singh, it has been decided to discontinue payment of Productivity Linked Incentives (PLI) to the
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:52A

Israel: “Rachel Corrie verdict, a defeat for justice and accountability, a victory for
GENEVA: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, condemned this week's ruling by an Israeli judge blocking a civil suit filed by the family of a young American activist killed
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:52A

Israel: “Rachel Corrie verdict, a defeat for justice and accountability, a victory for
GENEVA: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, condemned this week's ruling by an Israeli judge blocking a civil suit filed by the family of a young American activist killed
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:52A

BC-TX--Texas News Digest, TX
FORT HOOD SHOOTING. FORT HOOD, Texas The Army soldier accused of opening fire on a Texas military post is expected to appear in court for the first time since an appeals court lifted its stay of the case. Maj. Nidal Hasan has a Thursday court hearing at
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:51A

Burden on Colorado prosecutors to prove sanity
"What they're saying is, 'When we don't like what the independent state-hired psychiatrist finds, we want to be able to get our own hired guns and find somebody to say that he is not insane,'" said Denver criminal defense attorney Dan Recht, a former public
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:51A

Burden on Colorado prosecutors to prove sanity
"What they're saying is, 'When we don't like what the independent state-hired psychiatrist finds, we want to be able to get our own hired guns and find somebody to say that he is not insane,'" said Denver criminal defense attorney Dan Recht, a former public
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:51A

Online Poker Off the Tables for Republicans
If anybody had any fantasies that the Republicans were inching any closer to the idea of a licensed and regulated online poker and gambling regime in the United States, they are in for a rude awakening. The political party spelled out in no uncertain terms
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:51A

Revealed: your verdict on the QE3 question
The Federal Reserve is talking tough but will likely hold fire on a third round of quantitative easing, according to Citywire Global readers. In a survey carried out by Citywire Global following the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's
Updated: 08/30/2012 08:50A