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Courts to treat kids, disabled differently
Under the changes, courts will be allowed to admit videotaped interviews as evidence in chief and will allow evidence to be taken before a trial in informal surroundings. Police will also get special training on how to conduct interviews with children
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:45P
Gay Rights and the US Supreme Court
4, 2010 District Court ruling will now be judged on its merits at appeal. Judge Walker found Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional. Anyone who followed the original case knows that during Walker's trial, Proposition 8's backers produced no evidence to
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:45P
Lolo man appeals conviction for fatal crash on Brooks Street
The 52-year-old Lolo resident won't, however, be driving while he waits for the Montana Supreme Court to decide whether to consider the case. Last week, Holm filed a motion in Missoula County District Court seeking the return of his driving privileges,
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:44P
Jury Selection Set for Trial of Temecula Bed and Breakfast killing
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Timothy Freer is slated to begin calling prospective jurors to his courtroom at the Southwest Justice Center tomorrow morning to determine their eligibility and availability. The trial is expected to stretch into
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:43P
Vietnam appeal begins for French-Vietnamese
A court official in Ho Chi Minh City, who asked to remain anonymous, said a ruling on the appeal was expected on Tuesday. At his half-day trial in August, a court in the southern city ruled that Hoang wrote 33 articles under the pen name Phan Kien Quoc
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:41P
Tunisia begins military trial for ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Tunisian Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Jan 14 after an uprising and has since been tried in absentia in a civilian court. Col. Marouane Bouguerra, the military general prosecutor, says the trial before a military
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:36P
Barassi basher found guilty
Tessa Green was hit on a street in the inner Melbourne suburb of St Kilda during an argument with a group of revellers, the Victorian County Court trial was told. Mr Barassi, 75, a former premiership player and coach who was dining with friends at a
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:34P
77yo man loses appeal over death
Philip Tonal Scott, 77, of Pie Creek, was jailed for life in December last year after being found guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane of murdering Peter Brady at Rainbow Beach in June 2008. During the two-week trial, the court was told Scott shot
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:34P
Verdict on witness memory: Doubts borne out
For scientists, memory has been on trial for decades, and courts and public opinion are only now catching up with the verdict. It has come as little surprise to researchers that about 75 percent of DNA-based exonerations have come in cases where
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:32P
Murray To Be Sentenced Over Jackson's Death
Several doctors told the trial they would not have given Jackson the treatments in his bedroom and that Murray violated the standard of care multiple times. The doctor's fate lies with Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor who had harsh words for Murray
Updated: 11/28/2011 10:29P
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