Kosovo Await New War Crimes Trials

Many of the women here have no husbands, no sons and no graves to cry over.

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Justice Contemplated After Lay's Death

He was a man, after all — not just some abstract symbol of corporate thievery and vanished investor billions. Kenneth Lay, founder of Enron Corp., was a grandfather to 12, a husband to the woman who sobbed at his side on the day of his conviction.

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New Orleans Justice System Struggles

Their faces glisten with sweat, their red-rimmed eyes stare ahead vacantly as they're herded into the sweltering room where another day of court is about to begin.

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Agency Clears Official of Wrongdoing

The Justice Department has cleared one of its top officials of wrongdoing in a government lawsuit against the tobacco industry, removing an obstacle to his nomination to be ambassador to Australia.

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Feds Say House Speaker Not Under Probe

The Justice Department twice denied news reports Wednesday that it was investigating House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

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Texas Justice Admonished for Miers Support

A Texas Supreme Court justice was admonished for improperly using his position to support close friend Harriet Miers when she was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court last year.

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Cambodia Judges' Credibility Questioned

As preparations to try former Khmer Rouge leaders move forward, legal experts are concerned the dubious records of some Cambodian judges will cast doubt on the credibility of the country's war crimes tribunal.

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Roberts Seeks Greater Consensus on Court

Chief Justice John Roberts said Sunday he is seeking greater consensus on the Supreme Court, arguing that more consensus among justices is likely if hot-button issues are decided on the "narrowest possible grounds."

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Pakistan Set to Hang Acquitted British Man

After spending half his life in a Pakistani jail, Tahir Mirza Hussain is scheduled to hang on his 36th birthday for killing a taxi driver — even though a court acquitted him 10 years ago.

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Kan. Justice Investigated Over Lunch Talk

A lunchtime conversation about school-funding legislation has led to an unprecedented ethics investigation of a Kansas Supreme Court justice.

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Kan. Justice Accused of Improper Talks

A complaint filed Friday accused a state Supreme Court justice of improperly talking to legislators about school finance while the court was considering an education funding lawsuit.

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Acquitted Miss. Justice Returns to Bench

A Mississippi Supreme Court justice acquitted of bribery and tax evasion charges was cleared to return to the bench Thursday, more than two years after he was suspended.

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La. Juvenile Prison on the Road to Reform

Louisiana's juvenile prisons, once notorious for beatings and chaotic brawls, are on the road to reform and no longer need oversight from the federal courts, a judge has ruled.

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Federal Jury Clears Miss. Court Justice

A federal jury acquitted a Mississippi Supreme Court justice Thursday of tax evasion, part of a legal saga that has kept him off the bench for more than two years.

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The Hague May Host Charles Taylor Trial

It started 107 years ago with a somewhat cynical call by the czar of Russia for a disarmament conference that, for reasons of diplomatic niceties and international rivalries, ended up in the small capital of a neutral country, The Hague.

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Student Can Recite Poem With Profanity

A federal judge gave a ninth-grader permission Thursday to recite a poem at a state competition that his school objected to, claiming it contained profanity.

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AP: FBI Reviews 1946 Public Lynching Case

Nearly 60 years after a white mob lynched two black couples on a summer afternoon and got away with it, the FBI is taking another look at the case.

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Taylor Trial Spurs International Justice

Less than a month after former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died in custody, bringing his war crimes trial to a sudden halt, a cell is being prepared at the same Dutch prison for another notorious former leader.

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Africans Hope Taylor Case Sets Precedent

A former Chadian military leader accused in the deaths and torture of thousands of opponents lives in this pleasant, seaside capital. An infamous Ethiopian dictator has a haven in Zimbabwe. Uganda's Idi Amin, perhaps the most notorious of all, died peacefully in his place of refuge, Saudi Arabia.

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Why Do Some Dictators Escape Justice?

The spotlight of international justice has shone on Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic to hold them accountable for alleged war crimes.

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Barefoot Dad Busts Teens After Chase

Gerry Rodgers wasn't going to let himself become a burglary victim. When he heard two teenagers trying to break down his inside garage door, he jumped into his truck — without a weapon, a cell phone, or even shoes — and chased them down. He eventually forced the teens to call 911 on themselves.

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Bush Taps Prosecutor for Anti-Terror Job

Kenneth Wainstein, a federal prosecutor in Washington, is President Bush's choice to run a new Justice Department anti-terrorism division created by the renewal of the Patriot Act.

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History Now Will Be Milosevic's Judge

One of history's most important trials has ended abruptly with the death of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic. After four years, hundreds of witnesses, tens of thousands of documents and tens of millions of dollars, Milosevic can never be pronounced guilty or innocent.

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Man's Acquittal Sparks a Backlash in India

The facts of the case appeared straightforward: On a hot summer night in 1999, a young woman tending bar in an upscale New Delhi restaurant refused to serve a drunk patron. It was about 2 a.m. Closing time, she told him, had passed. So he shot her in the head.

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Breyer Sees More Debate Now Among Justices

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday the high court has more discussion and debate behind closed doors with its two new members.

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You Define Evil. And Make It Official.

A team of researchers at The Forensic Panel have created a means of gathering public opinion as regards particularly depraved crimes. The reason for doing so is to create a system of standards by which certain factors in a crime might be consistently regarded as evil.

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Legal Defamation - When Major Media Provides the Outlet for Courts to Disparage Their Critics

Many who challenge government misconduct through legal proceedings amass a virtual warehouse of related papers or files. I certainly have my stash and have seen the similar treasure troves of others, cluttering the floors and counter-tops of their homes and/or offices.

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edmontonsun.com - World - 'Witch' finally gets pardon

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia -- It took 300 years, but Virginia's only convicted witch has finally been pardoned.

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Justice Department sues Euclid over blacks' voting rights

This does not sound like the King's Injustice Department. But maybe this is a good thing, the King looking out for African American votes for a change. Turn your radar on.

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African-American Female to Lead Major Texas Law Firm; Mary A. Daffin Named Managing Partner

Hetep and Respect, If African Americans want justice from the American Injustice system then we better get inside and help make some justice, like Justice Marshal and others did.

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No charges filed against Critical Mass cyclist, for now

The BS keeps coming. "King County prosecutors have decided not to charge Zachary Treisman, one of two cyclists arrested during last week's Critical Mass demonstration in downtown Seattle, with assaulting a police officer — for now."

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Editorial: The Killing Fields

The U.N.-Cambodian tribunal given the task of bringing those responsible for the "killing fields" of Cambodia to trial should be supported by serious efforts to ensure that such atrocities do not happen again.

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How Many Rubens Are Out There?

Ruben Cantu was executed by lethal injection twenty-two minutes after midnight on August 24, 1993 by the state of Texas for the crime of murder in the first degree nearly nine years earlier. Until his death no that fateful night, Ruben maintained his innocence.

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DUI cop's alcohol test over the limit

Such hypocricy! LoL - The commander of the Utah Highway Patrol's DUI unit - who helped draft tougher anti-drunken driving legislation last year - was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol after crashing his unmarked police cruiser into a concrete barrier …

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Justices overrule Bush on Gitmo - U.S. Security

In brief comments, Bush said he will work with Congress to get approval to try terrorism suspects before military tribunals.

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Ex-guv’s son flouts law; woman fights, BMC dallies

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Armenian conscientious objectors appeal to European Court

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The Wrong Black Man

The only trait indisputably shared was race. The fugitive in the system and the suspect in handcuffs were both black men. The birth dates were three years apart.

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Chief justice apologizes to Dalton

The chief justice of Newfoundland and Labrador's highest court, has apologized to Ronald Dalton, who waited eight years in prison for the court to hear an appeal of his now-discredited murder conviction.

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Is the possibility of victory a necessary condition for a Just War?

The idea of a just war has grown mostly out of the Christian tradition in Europe, in an attempt to distinguish between ethically justifiable and unjustifiable uses of armed forces.

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Man gets 2 years in prison for raping a nun

Doesn't this seem like the wrong sentence? Rape an elderly senile Irish nun = Two years in jail? Good thing he didn't have a joint in his pocket. They give you LIFE for that. Better stick to nun-raping, it's safer.

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Conservatives sympathize with victims, Liberals pity criminals

(T)he most obvious contemporary way to distinguish between a “liberal” and a “conservative” is in their views on any passing spectacle of crime and punishment.

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Don't Bow To God's Bullies - Rev. Jim Rigby

A call to accountability and justice to religious leaders and mainstream protestants. It's time for us to recognize the human flaws in our institution and let them go -- thereby clearing our path to the ministry of love and welcome set out by 'the human one -- Jesus Christ'.

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Glitter sex abuse appeal rejected

An appeal by disgraced British ex-pop star Gary Glitter against a three-year jail term for child sex abuse has been rejected by a Vietnamese court.

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Yahoo! Canada : Eight charged in connection with Boxing Day shooting death of Toronto teen

Eight people are facing charges, including second-degree murder, in the shooting death of an innocent teenage girl in Toronto on Boxing Day.

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Ex-gang enforcer becomes an 'urban translator'

I'm seeding this because I it calls to mind Barbara Billingsley translating "jive" in the movie Airplane. It's also encouraging to me that our justice system is sometimes "blatantly and humourously" absurd instead of the usual "inuriatingly" absurd.

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Michael Berg Interview on Democracy Now

Democracy Now's interview with Michael Berg, the father of Nick Berg, the contractor beheaded by Zarqawi.

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YouTube - Tookie Williams Execution - Rough Cut

Remarkable video from the demonstrations outside of San Quentin Prison the night of the murder of Stanley "Tookie" Williams.

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This is why I disagree with death penalty

Innocent man spends 18 years in prison. He can never have that time back. I only imagine what if he was sentenced to death.

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Send Lai Home !

Recently in the news I heard that a Canadian judge has blocked the removal of Lai Changxing from Canada. Changxing was on his way back to China to face charges of smuggling billions of dollars of products into China.

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