Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, Jan. 27. Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich will deliver a state of the state address today at 12 PM ET. At the EU today, Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini will hold a press conference on the EU's [...]

Richey v. Mitchell, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr., January 25, 2005 . Excerpt: The State could point to no Ohio law, prior to Richey's own case, that stands for the proposition that transferred intent applies in aggravated felony murder cases. Thus, in compliance with Ohio law, [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America launched a second round of lawsuits on Wednesday against online movie downloaders. The latest lawsuits follow up a round of November actions and will target individuals as well as websites dedicated to movie swapping. As a result of the litigation, many large file sharing like Suprnova.org and Yourceff.com websites [...]

Peter Henning, Wayne State University Law School: "With the opening statements in the trials of Bernie Ebbers and Richard Scrushy out of the way — on the same day no less — the question arises whether either one will testify in his defense.  Reports on the opening arguments gave no indication one way or the [...]

In an effort to weed out insurgents and increase voter safety, Iraqi security officials have said they will use decoy polling stations during Sunday's national election. Iraqi Army Major Hamid Al Jubarah said, "We will have decoy voter centres, so those who want to bomb won’t know which ones are real." The UK Press Association [...]

Russian authorities said Wednesday that they will pursue a bribery case against Yulia Tymoshenko , new Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko's pick for prime minister. Tymoshenko faces allegations that she tried to inflate the price of supply contracts with the Russian military when she headed Ukraine's energy grid. A Russian court has already issued an order [...]

UN Children's Fund officials have confirmed 40 cases of children being abducted or recruited as soldiers by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel group since December's tsunami disaster . According to UNICEF spokesman Martin Dawes, "We have had 40 verified cases by UNICEF of child recruitment of the LTTE since the tsunami. When we say verified, [...]

BBC News is reporting that British police have released all four British detainees recently freed from Guantanamo Bay without charge. The four men were released from Guantanamo Bay to British officials on Tuesday and London Metropolitan Police Commissioner said yesterday that no prosecutions will proceed against the former detainees based material gathered by UK MI5 [...]

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has topped a roster of potential nominees to replace Chief Justice William Rehnquist should he retire, according to the results of a Zogby poll released Wednesday. O'Connor garnered support from 18% of those polled, while more conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia pulled in 13 and 8 percent [...]

US House Committee on the Judiciary chairman James Sensenbrenner, Jr. introduced legislation Wednesday that contains provisions restricting terrorist travel that were dropped from the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 , which was enacted in December . According to Sensenbrenner, the proposed Real ID Act "seeks to prevent another 9/11-type attack by disrupting [...]