A Pakistani court ruled Friday that government prosecutors may reopen their investigation into alleged corruption committed by exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , dealing a blow to Sharif's bid to return to Pakistan. Sharif, exiled for 10 years to Saudi Arabia in exchange for the government dropping its investigation in 2000, petitioned the Supreme [...]
Federal Trade Commission v. Whole Foods Market, Inc., and Wild Oats Markets, Inc., US District Court for the District of Columbia, August 16, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A German court announced the parole of former Red Army Faction member Eva Haule on Friday, saying that the court believed that Haule no longer viewed violence as an appropriate method of furthering political agendas and thus "no longer poses any danger to the public." Haule, initially sentenced in 1988 to 15 years in prison [...]
Indonesia reduced the sentences of 10 Islamic militants on Friday for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and the 2005 Bali bombings . Originally serving between eight to 18 years, six of the militants received a sentence reduction of five months, while the other four received a reduction of two months. Victims and [...]
Two former South African officials pleaded guilty to attempted murder Friday for their role in a 1989 plot to assassinate then-opposition member and current Director-General in the President's Office Frank Chikane. As part of the plea agreement with prosecutors, former Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok and former police chief Johannes Van der Merwe [...]
Venezuelan opposition party members on Thursday criticized proposed constitutional reforms introduced this week by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez , calling Chavez's proposal a blatant attempt to further consolidate his control over Venezuela. The proposals, which will extend the presidential term from six to seven years and will eliminate presidential term limits, will likely be approved [...]
Prosecutors presented opening statements in the trial of nursing home owners Salvador and Mabel Mangano Thursday, saying that the operators of St. Rita's Nursing Home were criminally negligent for their failure to comply with the mandatory evacuation order during Hurricane Katrina . Lawyers representing the Manganos, who pleaded not guilty to 35 charges of negligent [...]
US Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on Thursday asked Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine to investigate potentially misleading or dishonest testimony given in previous hearings by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Specifically, Leahy urged Fine to investigate: whether engaged in any misconduct, engaged in conduct inappropriate for a cabinet officer [...]
A former Marine sergeant has been charged with two counts of voluntary manslaughter for killing two Iraqi insurgents during the Multinational National Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive in Fallujah , his lawyers said Thursday. Jose Nazario will be arraigned at the US District Court for the Central District of California . According to the charges, Nazario, [...]
Personal notes by FBI Director Robert Mueller released Thursday reveal that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft was "feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed" when current Attorney General and then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales confronted him in his hospital room in March 2004 to obtain reauthorization of the warrantless domestic surveillance program . The notes also [...]
