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Libya, France and ICC vie to prosecute Qaddafi's spy chief
AP NOUAKCHOTT // Muammar Qaddafi's spy chief will go on trial - but Libya, France and the International Criminal Court in The Hague all want to be the first to put him in the dock. Abdullah Al Senoussi, feared former right-hand man of the deposed
Updated: 03/18/2012 03:54P
Murder case: eight acquitted
Panadura Provincial High Court Judge Kusala Sarojani Weerawardena who concluded the trial of a 15 - year - old murder case, acquitted eight accused indicted by the Attorney General with committing the murder of Anthony Stephen Silva of Koralawella,
Updated: 03/18/2012 03:36P
First trial without jury ends in guilty verdict
By Rowland A. Parks Akeem Thurton, the first accused person to stand trail without a jury was found guilty of attempted murder in the Supreme Court of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin on Thursday morning, March 15. Thurton was tried for the attempted
Updated: 03/18/2012 03:30P
Trustee for Madoff victims takes Mets owners to court
US District Judge Jed Rakoff says he's skeptical that lawyers for Trustee Irving Picard can succeed in convincing a nine-person civil jury that the Mets owners believed that Madoff's business was a fraud but continued their investments anyway because
Updated: 03/18/2012 03:20P
Numbers And Figures On Trial
By ELINANDO B. CINCO MANILA, Philippines — A flurry of numbers and figures has rent the air pervading at the Senate impeachment court that is trying Chief Justice Corona last week. That condition came as a drastic change from the dominance of legalese
Updated: 03/18/2012 03:19P
Libya, France and ICC compete for custody of Gaddafi intelligence chief
Abdullah al-Senussi, 62, Muammar Gaddafi's brother-in-law and former intelligence chief, is wanted for trial by Libya, France and the international criminal court in The Hague following his arrest on Sunday in the dictatorship on the west African coast
Updated: 03/18/2012 02:55P
Lawyer on trial for defrauding former wife
DUBAI — An Emirati lawyer, 29, was charged by the Court of First Instance with fraud and forgery as he is accused of forging the signature of his divorced wife and expropriating a car plate. According to court records, the lawyer expropriated the car's
Updated: 03/18/2012 02:51P
Demjanjuk's death: let bygones be bygones
This time, at the end of an exhausting trial that lasted eighteen months, the court did find him guilty. The length of the trial was not the responsibility of the judges but of Demjanjuk's lawyers, who grossly exaggerated their client's poor health.
Updated: 03/18/2012 02:50P
Red Taliban stokes fears in God's Own Country
It may look like a chapter from a story of some cannibalistic tribe of the past but the Taliban-like Marxist courts of Kannur district that hold trials, carry out convictions, pronounce death sentences and execute “class enemies” are a brutal reality
Updated: 03/18/2012 02:45P
Federal judge sets date for resumption of contempt of court hearing against
Justice Department attorneys wrote that they don't oppose court-ordered mediation as long as it does not interfere or delay pre-trial discovery or the start of the hearing. Mediation "may promote substantive discussions that might eliminate or lessen
Updated: 03/18/2012 02:45P
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