A grand jury in Washington, DC has indicted two men for the February 12 killing of Dorothy Stang , an American nun who was working in Brazil as an environmentalist. A landowner allegedly...
With the jury still unable to reach a verdict and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy unwilling to cut a deal in his trial for accounting fraud, US District Judge Karon Bowdre summoned...
Edgar Ray Killen has been convicted of three counts of manslaughter in connection with the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. The conviction came on the 41st anniversary of the rights workers disappearance and a...
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urged judges on Tuesday to adhere to federal sentencing guidelines, citing a growing disparity since the US Supreme Court invalidated mandatory guidelines in US v. Booker . Addressing the National Center for Victims of...
Abdel Hussein Shandal, Iraq's Sunni justice minister, accused the US on Tuesday of trying to delay Iraqi efforts to interrogate Saddam Hussein. While he said he expects Saddam's trial for war crimes to be over by...
A federal immigration judge ruled on Monday that John Demjanjuk , who lost his US citizenship for serving as a guard at a concentration camp, can be deported. The case dates back to 1977 [Cleveland Plain...
Luxembourg leaders say they will stick to their original plan for a July 10 referendum on the embattled European Union constitution . Following popular rejection of the charter in France and the Netherlands, seven other European countries...
British Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith Tuesday announced a government plan to abolish jury trials in complicated fraud cases. The move follows the collapse of a fraud trial earlier this year, partly because of jury...
The Cambodian government announced Tuesday that it will accept Japan's offer of $11 million to fund a shortfall in the estimated budget for trying former leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime, considered responsible for...
The California Supreme Court upheld state sentencing guidelines on Monday, ruling that allowing judges to impose a discretionary range of sentences for various crimes did not give them too much power. The ruling follows the recent US...
