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Prosecutors: Public endangered by Western psychologist's work
Pierce County prosecutors contend a veteran state psychologist who evaluates criminal defendants for mental illness has jeopardized public safety by declaring too many of them incompetent to stand trial. Pierce County prosecutors contend a veteran
Updated: 02/25/2012 08:18P
Court: Man wasted 'a gift' of parole
The 4th District Court of Appeal reversed trial judge Harold F. Bradford's original term of six years for the robberies, saying Bradford abused his discretion by removing from sentencing consideration the three strikes from the 1981 slaying.
Updated: 02/25/2012 08:16P
Cairo's NGO Trials: Will Egypt Throw American Democracy Advocates into Jail?
"But we don't know if we're going to be sitting in the court or sitting in the cage. Both are possible," she said, referring to the cage that defendants in Egyptian criminal trials are typically made to sit in throughout the hearings.
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:40P
Sandusky goes to court
(AP) — The Pennsylvania judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse case has set a tentative trial date of May 14th. The former Penn State football assistant told a hearing today that he thinks a local jury would be just as fair and unbiased as
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:40P
Judge ends former Italian premier's trial
World Newsday > News > World Judge ends former Italian premier's trial Published: February 25, 2012 7:32 PM By COLLEEN BARRY. The Associated Press MILAN -- Silvio Berlusconi's corruption trial ended yesterday with a court ruling that the statute of
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:35P
Mets owners Fred Wilpon, Saul Katz prepare to retire Picard in court
By Shannon Donnelly Attorneys for the owners of the New York Mets were in court — again — on Thursday to ask a judge to dismiss a $386 million clawback suit filed by Irving Picard, the bankruptcy trustee for Bernie Madoff's investment business.
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:34P
ECtHR deals blow to Ergenekon terror
In the first review of the landmark Ergenekon trial, a case where a vicious terror organization plotted to wreak havoc in the country in order to pave the way for a military coup, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:05P
ECtHR deals blow to Ergenekon terror
In the first review of the landmark Ergenekon trial, a case where a vicious terror organization plotted to wreak havoc in the country in order to pave the way for a military coup, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:05P
Surrounded by razor wire in a barren desert: The fortress where golf club
Ahead of his 10-hour flight across the Atlantic, he told The Mail on Sunday: 'I have chosen to travel in my shirt and tie and a blazer which has done sterling service at the golf club because I want to show the Americans a little bit of class even if
Updated: 02/25/2012 06:53P
ICTR transfers second case to Rwanda
“The Referral Chamber orders the case be referred to the authorities of the Republic of Rwanda, so that those authorities should forthwith refer the case to the High Court of Rwanda for an expeditious trial,” reads part of the decision dated February
Updated: 02/25/2012 06:52P
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