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Defendant

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First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/21/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Spaniard denies being drug smuggler; lay judges hand him 10 years

CHIBA (Kyodo) A Spanish man was sentenced to 10 years and fined ¥5 million in a lay judge trial Friday for smuggling illegal stimulants into Japan in May. He had pleaded innocent.Orquin Mompo Fernando, 38, was the second defendant to claim innocence in ... [Japan Times - 11/21/2009]

Entities: Defendant, Probation, Probation Officer, Chiba, Yokohama

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Don't Fear A N.Y. Terrorist Trial

Terrorist Trial NJ_Section NJ_Type NJ_Feature 'opening NJ_PubDate NJ_Title 'No Need To Fear A Manhattan Terrorist NJ_Author NJ_Kicker 'OPENING NJ_ID NJ_Topic Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 News Blogs Multimedia Subscriber ... [National Journal - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Terrorists, Military/Armed Forces, Manhattan, Guantanamo (Cuba), Classified Information

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Jury member loses cool in Miyagi high school girl rape case

SENDAI A male member of the lay jury in a Sendai District Court case was cautioned by a judge on Thursday after he was unable to contain his emotion, and began to use inappropriate language toward the defendant in a rape trial.The defendant, Kazuhiko ... [Japan Today - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Rape, Defendant, Sendai (Miyagi, Japan)

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Radovan Karadzic

Karadzic Trial to Resume in Early March

Former Bosnian-Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic is being tried before the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was established by the U.N. Security Council in May 1993 to prosecute ... [GlobalSecurity.org - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Radovan Karadzic, Tribunal, Paul Williams, Slobodan Milosevic

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Report: Police bust Beersheba bamba burglar

A 35-year-old Beersheba resident with a strong late-night craving for bamba recently picked the lock and broke the door of a store across from his home in order to get some of the peanut-flavored snack.He ravaged the store until he found a bag of bamba ... [Jerusalem Post - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Defendant, Ma'ariv, Bail

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Conviction for man who didn’t want to foot Chinese bill

A 36-year-old father of four, who was threatening and abusive in a Chinese restaurant in Castlebar as he did not want to pay for the food, was convicted at Castlebar District Court this week for the public order offence.Garda John Cahalin was called to ... [Mayo Advertiser - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Conviction, Thomas Street, Defendant, District Court

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Ballycastle farmer disqualified from driving

A farmer from Ballycastle who, following a complaint from a member of the public in relation to his driving, was stopped and arrested for drink driving, was disqualified from driving for four years at Ballina District Court this week.On June 20 this year ... [Mayo Advertiser - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Defendant, Jeep, Drink Driving

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

9th Circuit Allows Settling Whistleblower Defendant to Sue Third Party

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has secured nearly $2 billion from lawsuits filed under the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions in the last year. Given the importance being placed on these cases, a 9th Circuit decision this week should ... [Law.com - Newswire - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Defendant, Whistle-Blower

First Reported 11/21/2009 - Updated 11/21/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Holder makes a reasonable decision

Reasonable minds can disagree about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged Sept. 11 perpetrators in a Manhattan federal court. But some prominent criticisms are exaggerated, and others place undue ... [Miami Herald - 11/21/2009]

Entities: Eric Holder, Terrorists, Zacarias Moussaoui, Federal Court

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Cop-killer's life is in hands of jury

Philadelphia Daily Newsdeanm@phillynews.com215-854-5949STARTING THIS morning, a life-or-death matter will be the subject of conversation in Courtroom 304 of the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center.It has come to this for John "Jordan" Lewis because in ... [Philadelphia Inquirer - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Second-degree murder, Jordan Lewis, Aggravating Circumstances

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Duval judge to review county inmates' bail: Action in response to sheriff's comments on jail overcrowding

Monday will be bail review day in one Jacksonville judge's courtroom, a response to the sheriff blaming judges' high bails for an overcrowded jail.Circuit Judge Linda McCallum sent a memo Thursday to prosecutors and defense lawyers scheduling bail reviews ... [Individual.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Bail, Circuit Judge, Defendant

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Rapist given life plus 15 years for brutal attack: Defendant did not include apology in lengthy report

Christopher Parr spoke to a Circuit Court judge in Annapolis for nearly an hour yesterday detailing his life, including a long work history, community service and hobbies.Prior to his sentencing, Parr became, in effect, his own character witness, describing ... [Individual.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Defendant, Annapolis (Maryland, United States), Circuit Court

Quotes

Or the admirable Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones makes a statement about control orders, which she said "deny due process to the defendant, do not provide a reliable remedy to the security problem… and on top of all that cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. A Conservative government would review the morally objectionable and costly control order regime with a view, consistent with the security situation, to replacing it by the trial of suspects through the normal court system" . It's difficult to disagree with that, but apparently Conservative MPs do In the last three annual Commons votes on whether to continue the regime, they...

I've no problem voting Conservative, but I'm still not convinced by this lot [Guardian.co.uk - 35 mins ago]

...The ruling stated: "Removing giving from charity would debase the meaning of charity, and we resist such an assault upon language." Then in May, after a Baltimore Sun investigation last winter revealed that some nonprofit hospitals in Maryland were turning away low-income patients...

Economy Takes Toll on Charity Care [Association of American Medical Colleges - 39 mins ago]

"Based on what was recovered from the defendant's laptop, there is a strong prospect that the defendant will be charged with additional offenses based on the additional trade secret documents of Ford and" the unidentified other company, the document said

Engineer in Ford theft case may face more charges [Reuters UK - 4 hours ago]

...Professor of Law and faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. That's because, during the penalty phase, the defendant has "a constitutional right to offer just about anything that could be characterized as mitigating evidence" he says. 'What happens here is that a lot of defense evidence that wouldn't be admissible during the guilt phase, then comes back in a secondary way...

The court will now call its expert witness: the brain [PhysOrg.com - 4 hours ago]

More Content

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Text messages challenged in Crofton shooting: D... [TMC Net - 13 mins ago]
I've no problem voting Conservative, but I'm st... [Guardian.co.uk - 35 mins ago]
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Prosecutor: Jail U.S. student for life [UPI - 1 hour ago]
Text messages challenged in Crofton shooting: D... [Individual.com - 2 hours ago]
Life sentence requested for U.S. suspect in Ita... [Japan Today - 2 hours ago]
A weekend interview with plaintiffs and attorne... [St. Petersburg Times - 3 hours ago]
Engineer in Ford theft case may face more charges [Reuters UK - 4 hours ago]
The court will now call its expert witness: the... [PhysOrg.com - 4 hours ago]
Peeping X-ray tech gets date for trial [Norwalk... [TMC Net - 5 hours ago]
Indonesian worker pleads guilty to theft offence [Borneo Bulletin - 6 hours ago]
Knox Prosecutors Seek the Max: Life in Prison [ABC News - 6 hours ago]
US epileptic jailed for Britons' deaths [Yorkshire Post - 6 hours ago]
Editorial: Terrorists on trial [Chicago Tribune - 6 hours ago]
Duty and honor shrouded in doubt: Brooksville d... [St. Petersburg Times - 6 hours ago]
Italian prosecutors request life for American s... [CTV.ca - 7 hours ago]
Amanda Knox Trial: Life Requested For US Suspec... [The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - 8 hours ago]
Father charged with sex offences [BBC - 9 hours ago]
Facebook Sued for Scamming Users via Game Ads [Softpedia - 10 hours ago]
Witness: Bruno hired for 'visual credibility': ... [Individual.com - 10 hours ago]
Judge keeps El Gringo in prison [Dominican Today - 12 hours ago]
Questions raised on defendant who's 'ill': Yet ... [Individual.com - 14 hours ago]
Lynne Stewart: Heroic Human Rights Lawyer Jailed [Boston IMC - 17 hours ago]
State sues B&B Engineering [Zambia Daily Mail - 17 hours ago]
Warren man tried again for crash [Detroit News - 18 hours ago]
Trial set to begin in FAI computer fraud case [Individual.com - 18 hours ago]
Mesilla couple could face 106 years in jail in ... [Individual.com - 18 hours ago]
Crime report suggests people's law-abiding spir... [MAINICHI Daily News - 18 hours ago]
Petters case: Lawyers get last words Monday: In... [Individual.com - 19 hours ago]
Petters: Lawyers get last words Monday [Minneapolis Star Tribune - 19 hours ago]

Blogs

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I've no problem voting Conservative, but I'm st... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 50 mins ago] There is a lot of sense in Tory thinking but they must do more to close the gap between rich and poorAlthough the next election sometimes seems like a choice between ...
Judge On Dom Carter: Day Laborer Excuse "P... [Gothamist - 2 hours ago] The judge who convicted NY1 political anchor Dominic Carter of attempted assault for "punching, choking, and kicking" his wife, ruled that his spouse's conflicting ...
Missouri Court Upholds Statute Against Gun Poss... [The Volokh Conspiracy - 11/20/2009] Missouri v. Richard was decided earlier this week by the Missouri Supreme Court, solely on the basis of the Missouri Constitution. Missouri law, Section 571.030.1(5) ...
Hasselbeck on KSM "They Chucked Some Water... [Crooks and Liars - 11/20/2009] DOWNLOADS: (46) ...
Political Controversy Over Colorado U.S. Attorn... [Talkleft - 11/20/2009] President Obama, upon the recommendation of Colorado's two U.S. Senators and others, has nominated former Denver Chief Deputy District Attorney Stephanie Villafuerte ...

Audio/Video

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Meredith Kercher murder trial: Prosecutors sum up [ITN News - YouTube - 11 hours ago]
WSJ's What's News Early Edition, Nov. 19, 2009 [Wall Street Journal What's News - 11/19/2009]
Why Is Maj. Nidal Hasan Still the "Alleged... [Slate Magazine - 11/14/2009]
The Supreme Court looks at life sentences for t... [Slate Magazine - 11/10/2009]
Why Do So Many Baseball Players Chew Tobacco? [Slate Magazine - 11/02/2009]

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