The New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate released a report Tuesday detailing cases of abuse of New Jersey's eminent domain laws, which the report criticized for being giving "overbroad statutory authority" that allowed the government to take "homes and businesses without meeting the basic principles of fairness enshrined in the New Jersey Constitution." The [...]
Former FBI Director William S. Sessions Wednesday applauded recent efforts to extend DNA testing, especially for the benefit of prisoners facing the death penalty. In a JURIST op-ed, Sessions said that a proposal by New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) to expand New York's DNA database and an Ohio Supreme Court decision limiting prosecutorial discretion [...]
Russia's Office of the Prosecutor-General Wednesday dismissed suggestions by a Russian lawmaker that Andrei Lugovoy , currently sought by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) for the poisoning murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko , could be extradited to the UK in exchange for Russian billionaire and alleged coup plotter Boris Berezovsky , now living [...]
Suspended Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Tuesday released to reporters a signed affidavit he had filed with the Supreme Court of Pakistan detailing how he was detained last March against his will and personally pressured to resign his post by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and other military leaders. The affidavit alleges that Musharraf and [...]
UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith Tuesday denied allegations published in The Independent that he advised Army officials to deny UK detainees in Iraq legal protections guaranteed under the Human Rights Act of 1998 (HRA) and instead adopt a "pragmatic" approach adhering to the Geneva Conventions when handling detainees. In an interview with BBC Radio [...]
Lawyers for US Vice President Dick Cheney instructed the Secret Service to destroy data on who visited his official residence at the Naval Observatory, saying that the information was protected by the Presidential Records Act , according to a letter included in a response filed Friday by the US Department of Justice to a lawsuit [...]
The US Department of Defense will not release audio recordings of the March 9 Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay due to concerns that it could be used in terrorist propaganda, a military spokesperson said Tuesday. During his hearing Mohammed said he masterminded the 9/11 attacks and claimed [...]
A convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal who escaped from prison presents a threat to the security and judges of the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Meddzida Kreso, president of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Tuesday. Radovan Stankovic , the first Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect transferred from the [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and former FBI Director William S. Sessions says that Governor Eliot Spitzer’s recent proposal to expand the New York DNA database and an Ohio Supreme Court ruling liberalizing DNA testing for inmates should be welcomed as necessary and overdue efforts to protect public safety while pursuing meaningful justice, especially for prisoners [...]
Malaysia's Federal Court, the highest court for civil cases, Wednesday rejected an appeal by Lina Joy, who sought to change her religious affiliation on her government registration card from Islam to Christianity. The high court's ruling upheld a lower civil court ruling that Joy must obtain permission to change her religious affiliation from an Islamic [...]
