The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Monday, including United States v. Rodriquez , where the Court ruled that for purposes of increasing a sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) a conviction qualifies as a predicate serious drug offense even when the crime is made punishable by a 10-year prison term only [...]
Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
United States v. Ressam, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
United States v. Williams, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
United States v. Rodriquez, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A Bangladeshi anti-corruption court indicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday on charges that she received approximately $440,000 in illegal kickbacks on a power-plant deal while in office between 1996 and 2001. If found guilty of the accusations, made in 2007 by the country's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) , Hasina could face up to 14 years [...]
The Vietnamese government Saturday deported Nguyen Quoc Quan , a US citizen sentenced for planning to distribute pro-democracy pamphlets in the communist country. He received a six-month jail term Tuesday, but was credited for time he spent awaiting trial. Quan was one of several arrested in November 2007 for planning to give out literature on [...]
Representatives of over 100 governments will meet Monday at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions to finalize a treaty banning the use, manufacture, and stockpiling of cluster bombs . Opponents of the ordnance, including some military officers, believe them to be inaccurate weapons designed to spread damage indiscriminately. An estimated 10-40% of the munitions [...]
An Afghan appeals court heard testimony Sunday from journalism student Sayad Parwaz Kambaksh , who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islam. Kambaksh denied the accusations in front of a three-judge panel Sunday, saying they were made by Balkh University professors and students with “private hostilities” against him. [...]
Hans von Spakovsky, nominated by President Bush to serve on the six-member US Federal Election Commission (FEC) , withdrew his name from consideration for the appointment Friday. The withdrawal ends a two-and-a-half-year stalemate between the administration and Senate Democrats. The former Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights was named to the FEC [...]
