Ex-Enron vice-president Paula Rieker was sentenced Friday to 2 years probation for insider trading, avoiding up to ten years' imprisonment. Judge Melinda Harmon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas reduced Rieker's sentence in exchange for her cooperation with investigators in the prosecutions of Enron founder Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeffrey [...]

The US Government Accountability Office says that erroneous terror watch lists are delaying thousands of travelers moving in and through the United States. A GAO report on the lists published last Friday noted:Although the total number of misidentifications that have occurred as a result of watch-list-related screening conducted by all frontline-screening agencies and airlines is [...]

Affidavit, Heather N. Cerveny, US Marine Corps, October 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the affidavit . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A top US Marine Corps lawyer has called for an investigation of alleged abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay after reviewing a sworn statement filed by a Marine paralegal who said that last month she spoke with a group of off-duty Marines who identified themselves as guards and bragged of beating and abusing prisoners. The [...]

British human rights group Reprieve accused the United States in a report issued Friday of using Germany's Ramstein Air Base as a detention center for renditions . Reprieve's sources claim that some of the 14 "high-value" terror suspects transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo Bay last month were formerly held at an air base [...]

Canadian prosecutor Robert Petit , one of the two active prosecutors for the Cambodian genocide tribunal that will try former leaders of the Khmer Rouge , told a meeting of international prosecutors at The Hague Friday that the prosecution team will be ready to present cases to an investigating judge by the end of the [...]

The US Supreme Court announced Friday that it will reconsider the death penalty sentence of LaRoyce Lathair Smith, convicted of murdering a 19-year-old Dallas Taco Bell manager in 1991. The Court initially reversed Smith's death sentence in a 2004 per curiam opinion because jurors were not instructed to consider mitigating evidence of Smith's personal circumstances [...]

US Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos, a hospital corpsman, pleaded guilty Friday to kidnapping and conspiracy charges in connection to the April 26 death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania. A total of eight US military personnel were initially charged in the incident, in which they are said to have [...]

As the National Hockey League opened its 2006-2007 season this week, the lockout that wiped out the entire 04-05 slate has reared its head again in the form of a lawsuit filed against the players' union by players themselves. The suit, filed in US District Court on Monday, alleges improprieties by union leadership in the [...]

New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared before parliament Friday that Japanese leaders during World War II were not war criminals. Abe, who took office late last month , had said a day earlier that Japanese leaders were responsible for the deaths of many people within the country and elsewhere in Asia during the war, [...]