The Santiago Court of Appeals has temporarily removed Judge Carlos Cerda from presiding over a probe into the finances of former Chile dictator Augusto Pinochet , after hearing arguments that Cerda has a "personal bias" against Pinochet. Pinochet's lawyer had argued that Cerda demonstrated his bias towards Pinochet by voting against Pinochet in a previous [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday found Croatian journalist Josip Jovic guilty of contempt of the Tribunal for publishing transcripts of a closed court session and revealing the identity of a witness, current Croatian President Stipe Mesic , who testified in the Tihomir Blaskic case . Jovic, editor of Slobodna [...]
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds on Tuesday ordered a last minute reprieve for death row inmate Elijah Page , calling the 1984 state lethal injection law outdated and expressing concern that state officials slated to perform the execution were at risk of violating the state statute. The South Dakota statute requires a combination of two [...]
A staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps was charged Tuesday with relaying secret national defense information to a person outside the government "with intent or reason to believe that the said information was to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation." [...]
A lawyer involved in the CIA leak case said Tuesday that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has identified himself as the "initial and primary source" for the Robert Novak column that revealed Valerie Plame Wilson's CIA affiliation. The New York Times also learned from lawyers close to the case that Armitage learned of [...]
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a pesticide rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , saying that the regulation does not violate the Clean Air Act even though it may conflict with an international environmental treaty signed by the US. In December 2004, the EPA issued a rule identifying the once-popular pesticide [...]
British police on Tuesday charged three people with conspiracy to murder and planning to smuggle "component parts of improvised explosive devices" onto airplanes in connection with the alleged terror plot to blow up US-bound planes over the Atlantic, bringing to 15 the total now charged in the episode. All three of the latest accused – [...]
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said during a one-day visit to Baghdad Tuesday that enforcement of the rule of law is essential to Iraq's future, but stressed that it was up to the country's leaders and people to determine what kind of law that would be. Gonzales met with local US Justice Department personnel working [...]
The prosecutor in the Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus, on Tuesday called for the death penalty in the case. The trial resumed on May 11 with the testimony of prosecution witnesses , including testimony from a young girl [...]
Saudi Arabia has released nine of 29 former Guantanamo detainees in its custody on Tuesday after investigations revealed that they had not committed any crimes. Charges are still being reviewed for the remainder. Earlier this year, the US transferred fifteen Saudi detainees who were then followed by an additional fourteen , after being cleared by [...]
