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Justice secretary opposes house arrest for Arroyo
MANILA (Updated) -- Justice Secretary Leila de Lima wants former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be placed inside a detention center rather than in a house to avoid perceptions of “special treatment.” At a hearing on electoral sabotage case filed
Updated: 11/25/2011 12:00P
Federal appellate court upholds sentence in local meth case
Scarborough appealed his sentence, arguing US District Judge Clay D. Land should have given him less time because he ultimately pleaded guilty and did not put the government through the expense of a trial. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, however,
Updated: 11/25/2011 11:58A
Portsmouth owner Vladimir Antonov in court over alleged bank fraud
were granted conditional bail when they came before Westminster Magistrates' Court. Lithuanian prosecutors issued a European Arrest Warrant for Antonov and Baranauskas on Wednesday after naming them as the main suspects in a pre-trial investigation
Updated: 11/25/2011 11:56A
Bali Teen Drug Trial: Australian Boy Sentenced For Drugs
Presiding Judge Amzer Simanjuntak told the packed Denpasar district court that – when taking into account time already served – the 14-year-old would be freed in just over a week and immediately deported. The boy, who cannot be named because of his age
Updated: 11/25/2011 11:51A
Murder trial hears drugs in victim's system
She told the court, he may have been sedate and had mental cloudiness. The lab was unable to determine how much of those drugs Kyle Dingwell had taken, or when, because of the small amount of blood taken. On Thursday, Kyle Dingwell's girlfriend Tara
Updated: 11/25/2011 11:49A
Murder accused said to have confessed to friend he killed schoolboy
This week Ninos Binno gave evidence in the trial over the murder of Peter Savage for the first time. Mr Binno told a Supreme Court jury his childhood friend had confessed to the murder of the 16-year-old schoolboy in August 1995.
Updated: 11/25/2011 11:48A
Gaddafi's son could face ICC trial in Libya
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, favourite son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, could be tried in Libya by the International Criminal Court, the ICC's chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Friday. By News Wires (text) AFP - The trial of deposed
Updated: 11/25/2011 11:47A
ICC trial for Seif al-Islam could be in Libya, says prosecutor
The trial of deposed Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi's son Seif al-Islam could be held in Libya under the auspices of the International Criminal Court, the ICC's chief prosecutor said Friday. Luis Moreno-Ocampo also proposed two other options to put Seif
Updated: 11/25/2011 11:41A
House arrest sought for Arroyo
"They [doctors] said former president Arroyo is… physically fit and ready to leave the hospital anytime," said Joel T. Pelicano, court clerk at the Pasay Regional Trial Court Branch 112. Mrs. Arroyo has been confined at St. Luke's Medical Hospital in
Updated: 11/25/2011 11:41A
Gloria Arroyo fit to leave hospital
As far as Justice Secretary Leila de Lima is concerned, the move by Arroyo's lawyers to have her put under house arrest instead of hospital arrest was “an implied admission that her health is really improving.” “There is nothing in her medical abstract
Updated: 11/25/2011 11:40A
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