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Letter: Did Cellini get a fair trial?
Let's compare the Clinton case and the apparent perjury by the juror in the Bill Cellini trial. Every jury in the United States is required to be comprised of impartial jurors and the court should be especially attentive to that mandate when involved
Updated: 11/25/2011 01:05A
Fellow inmate says El Reno slaying defendant admitted in jail to killings
Roy George Kuykendall, an inmate at Canadian County, OK, jail, says fellow inmate Joshua Steven Durcho, 28, admitted to killing his girlfriend and her four children and is faking a mental retardation claim to avoid the death penalty.
Updated: 11/25/2011 01:04A
Accused tells trial he has no memory of fatal attack
has told a court he "must have" killed the woman, writes Ryan Hooper. Giving evidence at the murder trial in Truro yesterday, retired plumber John O'Rourke recalled the moments after the horrific attack on his partner of five years, Amanda Sorrell,
Updated: 11/25/2011 12:59A
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Whether Ms Board was owed holiday pay turned on the question of whether the payment of Ms Board's bonus was a 'discretionary payment'. The Holidays Act provides that 'discretionary payments' are excluded from the calculation of average weekly earnings
Updated: 11/25/2011 12:53A
Bali boy to be released on December 4
But the judge, Amser Simanjuntak, shaved one month off the sentence request when he delivered his ruling in a makeshift hearing room at the Denpasar District Court. The teenager was accompanied by his father during the sentencing, which for the first
Updated: 11/25/2011 12:45A
Workers imprisoned for exercise of union rights
Last October however, the Regional Trial Court in Morong, Rizal, under Presiding Judge Sheila Marie A. Ignacio, decided in favour of the employers' demand to increase the workers' bail by another P20,000 ($462). The court gave the strikers until Dec 31
Updated: 11/25/2011 12:43A
Indonesia sentences 14-year-old Australian boy to 2 months in closely watched
Presiding Judge Amzer Simanjuntak told the Denpasar district court Friday that the 14-year-old had been found guilty of drug possession. Under the country's tough narcotics laws, he could have faced up to 12 years in jail. But the panel of three judges
Updated: 11/25/2011 12:37A
Solyndra, PMI, Madoff, Ashapura, NEC, Black Crow: Bankruptcy
Rakoff ruled in substance that the trustee's right to a jury trial on a fraudulent transfer claim was decided in a 1989 US Supreme Court case called Granfinanciera v. Nordberg. The test for jury trial rights first asks whether there would have been a
Updated: 11/25/2011 12:33A
Diehl-Armstrong: 'Miscarriage of justice' in Erie pizza bomber case
Diehl-Armstrong filed the appeal a week ago, despite her court-appointed trial lawyer filing an appeal with the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, seated in Philadelphia, on Nov. 4. Diehl-Armstrong in her appeal claims the lawyer, Douglas Sughrue,
Updated: 11/25/2011 12:31A
Zenani Mandela killing case is postponed again
THE driver of the car in which former president Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter, Zenani Mandela, was killed appeared briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court yesterday. Sizwe Mankazana was told to appear again on December 20 when a trial
Updated: 11/25/2011 12:30A
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