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Jury in trial of man accused of bashing Barassi resumes deliberations
The jurors began considering their verdict about 3pm Friday, after a week-long trial. Judge Frances Hogan sent them home at about 5pm. Travis Bowling, 29, of South Melbourne, has pleaded not guilty in the County Court to causing serious injury to
Updated: 11/27/2011 04:47P
Sabo case against Mentor officer scheduled for trial
Officer Scott Tkach fatally shot Richard Sabo at Sabo's Roselawn Drive home on Feb. 5, 2009. Sabo's widow, Dian, later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, Tkach and 20 unnamed police, fire and Mentor officials. She is asking for at least
Updated: 11/27/2011 04:43P
Research on Bhopal gas victims waits, not drug trials on them
“gas patients” have been routinely used for clinical trials for new drugs at the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC), the 350-bed superspeciality hospital set up on the orders of the Supreme Court to provide free services to them.
Updated: 11/27/2011 04:32P
Delayed Enforcement: Plea for keeping children out of prison
PHOTO: FILE KARACHI: Even after 11 years of its promulgation, the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance has yet to be implemented at the trial court level. On Saturday, a seminar titled 'State of Probation and Juvenile Justice in Sindh', to review the
Updated: 11/27/2011 04:17P
UAE court jails five activists
But the Supreme Court pressed ahead announcing its verdict. The five defendants, described by sympathisers as reformists, had refused to show up in court, saying in a message delivered by a police officer that the court "did not enable them to defend
Updated: 11/27/2011 04:02P
UAE: Prison Sentence for Activists an Attack on Free Expression
(Abu Dhabi) – A guilty verdict against five activists by the United Arab Emirates' Federal Supreme Court on November 27, 2011, is an attack on freedom of expression and the result of an unfair trial, Human Rights Watch said today.
Updated: 11/27/2011 04:02P
Convicted Murderer Gets 2nd Chance To Avoid Death Penalty
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the new trial for 33-year-old Rayshawn Johnson begins Monday in Cincinnati. Johnson's conviction in 1998 for murdering 29-year-old Shanon Marks stands. But an appeals court in 2008 threw out his death sentence and
Updated: 11/27/2011 04:01P
Arroyo can't be moved home, says top official
Secretary Leila de Lima of the Department of Justice pointed out that even a bone surgeon attending to Arroyo had told a regional court that she is now “medically fit” and thus, now longer needs her continued stay in a $1000 a day suite in a Metro
Updated: 11/27/2011 04:00P
Tunisia - Imed Trabelsi sentenced to 18 years in prison and fined over 150
Imed Trabelsi, who appeared before the court, continues a hunger strike he had started last November 8 "to protest against the absence of conditions of fair trial." The court acquitted Mourad Trabelsi after the presentation by his lawyer of evidence of
Updated: 11/27/2011 03:49P
Suit Against Pentel Goes to Trial
Inc. In a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in December 2009, Concept Chaser maintains that Pentel of America and its parent firm, Tokyo-based Pentel Co. Ltd., stole the firm's idea to target college students as a way of marketing the HyperG in
Updated: 11/27/2011 03:37P
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