A US judge hearing a motion to move Malcolm Watson's parole sentence from Canada to New York has denied that the sex offender had been "exiled" or "banished" to Canada. Watson was convicted by a New York court last month for endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree sexual abuse. The parties reached a [...]
Indonesian prosecutors requested a three-year prison term Friday for American Richard Ness , the regional chief executive of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation , an American gold-mining company with a subsidiary in Indonesia. Ness and Newmont face criminal charges for allegedly dumping arsenic and mercury into the waters of Indonesia's Buyat Bay, a charge which could [...]
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spoke out against the pending execution of Saddam Hussein Thursday, saying it could push Iraq into even greater violence. Mubarak, believed to share the views of many Arab leaders, told Egyptian newspapers that hanging Hussein "will transform (Iraq) into blood pools and lead to a deepening of the sectarian and ethnic [...]
A Vietnamese court convicted three Vietnamese-born United States citizens for plotting "terrorist activities" and ordered them deported from the country. Prosecutors said the three Americans, along with four other defendants, had plotted to drop leaflets, jam radio stations and plant bombs to protest the Communist-run government. In addition to deportation, the judge ordered 15-month prison [...]
South African lawmakers are expected to pass a civil unions bill next week after a parliamentary committee Thursday approved language without specific reference to heterosexual or same-sex couples that recognizes the "voluntary union of two persons, which is solemnized and registered by either a marriage or civil union." A party-line vote on the controversial measure [...]
In the latest string of judgments against Russia, the European Court of Human Rights Thursday held the country responsible for the deaths and disappearance of three people in Chechnya . In the first case , the body of Nura Luluyeva, a nurse who disappeared in 2000, was found in a mass grave a year later [...]
The president of Burundi admitted Thursday that instances of torture and brutality by police and members of the military do sometimes occur in the country, but told reporters in Paris that the perpetrators of those ‘isolated’ incidents are arrested approximately 85% of the time. President Pierre Nkurunziza was responding to new allegations by Amnesty International [...]
The US Army announced Thursday that it will push forward with a court martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada , an Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq and openly protested the war as ‘unlawful’. Fort Lewis commander Lt. Gen. James Dubik followed an investigating officer’s recommendation to go to court-martial, forwarding charges of missing [...]
Environmental extremists in Oregon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and arson on Thursday for their roles in a streak of environmentally motivated arsons by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) over the course of five years. US federal prosecutors said they would ask for a five year sentence for one of [...]
David G. Evans, Esq. : "The Colorado marijuana initiative would have made it legal for anyone over 21 years of age to possess one ounce or less of marijuana. According to law enforcement, one ounce of marijuana is equal to 56-84 joints, depending upon size of joint. This large quantity, which the proponents of the [...]
