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QC residents join suit vs Torres
Residents of Morning Star Heights in Culiat, Quezon City, filed a motion with the appellate court to intervene in the petition filed by K-Ville Townhomes residents against Torres and the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 224.
Updated: 11/05/2011 11:57A
Mladic's Poor Health Is New Focus at the Hague
THE HAGUE — Each time Ratko Mladic has come to court, he has complained about his health — his fatigue, his stroke-weakened right arm, his kidney pains — emphasizing his ailments as if they were the central focus of his trial on war
Updated: 11/05/2011 11:40A
2G accused invoke illness, debt, fatherly duties to plead for bail
There are 14 individuals accused in the case. The trial court at Patiala House gave its verdict on eight of the accused on Thursday and the Supreme Court has reserved its order for another five of them. The prime accused A Raja, former telecom minister
Updated: 11/05/2011 11:40A
Mercy mission or attempted murder?
Scientist Sean Davison pleaded guilty this week to helping his cancer-ravaged mother kill herself, after the Herald on Sunday published an extract from a leaked draft of his book revealing how he gave her a lethal dose of morphine.
Updated: 11/05/2011 11:32A
Will Texas Kill Hank Skinner Despite Untested DNA Evidence?
With so much physical evidence surrounding the deaths of Busby and her sons, the potential for DNA leading conclusively to the killer was enormous. But 18 years later, none of the items has ever been tested. Neither were fingernail scrapings taken from
Updated: 11/05/2011 11:27A
Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju, two others released from jail
PTI B Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in multi-crore Satyam Computers accounting scam case, was released on Saturday from a local prison after the Supreme Court granted him and two others bail. Ramalinga Raju's brother B Rama Raju and Satyam's former
Updated: 11/05/2011 11:27A
No fear: Police on Ecleo arrest
Whether or not Ecleo is guilty of killing his wife will be known on December 16, the tentative date of the promulgation of the parricide case. In an April 6 order, Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 10 Judge Soliver Peras cancelled Ecleo's P1-million
Updated: 11/05/2011 11:25A
Satyam founder, two others released from jail
While cancelling his bail, the apex court had stipulated that the accused would file another bail application only after 31 July, 2011, if the trial in the case is not completed in the local court. Following cancellation of his bail on CBI's plea,
Updated: 11/05/2011 10:34A
'Fresh evidence' in murder case
Three appeal court judges earlier rejected an appeal, saying there was no reason to doubt the safety of the conviction. The trial was told fibres found at Mrs Albert's home had linked Hall to the scene. Hall denied murder and has continued to protest
Updated: 11/05/2011 10:31A
Speeding up justice in Maguindanao massacre
Time has a way of warping justice, of making witnesses “forget,” or lose interest in the case, or become easy prey to corruption, undue influence and outright bribery, or worse, die. They could one day “disappear” or become strangely inaccessible.
Updated: 11/05/2011 10:31A
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