Leading Thursday's states brief, the Supreme Court of Georgia has warned criminal trial judges to be careful in the way they instruct juries about weighing the value of eyewitness identification. In a decision today, the Court said...
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Chechen rebel leader Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev ordered the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov according to a report released Thursday by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition of Forbes, was shot to death...
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that police at roadside DUI checkpoints do not have to inform suspects of their right to legal counsel before asking them whether or not they had been drinking or...
Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have filed an official appeal with the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights , the regional human rights body in Africa, to intervene...
The commander of Dutch UN troops in Srebrenica in 1995 told a preliminary hearing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Thursday that he did not know Serbian forces had begun killing Muslim men and...
Chief lawyer to Saddam Hussein Ziad Khasawneh Thursday accused the Iraqi Special Tribunal and the US government of purposely ignoring repeated requests for legal documents and effectively keeping defense counsel unaware of the trial...
British millionaire Friedhelm Eronat has been awarded oil rights for the Darfur region of Sudan , an area where the Sudanese government has been accused of war crimes and mass murders. Human rights groups like Global Witness ...
Venezuela has officially requested the extradition of alleged terrorist and Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles . Carriles, a naturalized Venezuelan and former CIA collaborator, is wanted for allegedly blowing up a Cuban airline in 1976 and later escaping...
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz visited a Rwandan genocide memorial Thursday and apologized on behalf of the international community for its failure to prevent the 1994 mass genocide . Wolfowitz is on...
Notes from a series of Pentagon meetings in 2003 show that General Counsel of the Department of the Navy Alberto Mora warned high-level officials that Guantanamo interrogation techniques could expose them to criminal prosecution, according to ABC...
