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And I thought Burma's courts were bad...
17 hours ago ago from Rule by Hukum
One theme I regularly discuss on this blog is the constitutionalization or legalization of undemocratic rule in Southeast Asia. As despots have known for centuries, legal formalities can shroud anti-democratic and grossly illiberal tactics. In the Wall Street Journal , Carlyle Thayer professor of politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, recently discussed how Hun Sen 's Cambodian People's Party is beginning to rely upon ...
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1 day ago ago from Oklahoma Observer
December 8, 2009 BY RICHARD L. FRICKER Barely had the Thanksgiving plates been cleared than the ghouls of Christmas fell upon us. Reps. Mike Ritze, R-Broken Arrow, and Mike Reynolds, R-OKC, are once again using the tragedy of children to promote the neo-con agenda of aborting the concept of an independent judiciary. At issue is the 12-year sentence imposed on Larry Martin Neeley, 36, by Tulsa District Court Judge William ...
Related contentTight budget shuts Lansing district court for 8 days
14 hours ago ago from The Michigan Lawyer
The Lansing State Journal reports that Lansing's 54A District Court will be closed from Dec. 24 through Jan. 3 because of city-mandated furloughs. Chief Judge Frank DeLuca announced the closures Monday at a news conference at the courthouse, which takes up the fifth and sixth floors of the City Hall building. This would not be our choice, DeLuca said about closing the court, which last year handled more than 9,700 felony and ...
Related contentMedia should show restraint
5 hours ago ago from My School - I wish
Court asks police to explain how Kasab's CD was leaked Posted: Tuesday , Dec 08, 2009 at 1929 hrs Mumbai: The special court hearing 26/11 terror attack case on Tuesday asked the police department to file an affidavit explaining how footages of a CD filmed on the interrogation of accused Ajmal Kasab was leaked to the media. The Judge M L Tahaliyani asked Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam to file an affidavit of the police officer ...
Related contentImportant Victory in Kindler
8 hours ago ago from Crime and Consequences Blog
The U.S. Supreme Court today decided Beard v. Kindler , a case on the procedural default doctrine. The decision is an important victory for the enforcement of the criminal law generally and capital punishment in particular, even though a broad question is left for a future case. When a criminal judgment has been upheld by the state courts and is challenged in federal court, the petitioner often wants to make a claim that he did not make or ...
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Sidebar: The Turducken Approach to Privacy Law
23 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON Related Rights and Religion Clash in Court (December 8, 2009) Court Spars on Oversight of Agencies (December 8, 2009) In June, the metaphor of the turducken made its first appearance in American jurisprudence. It's a bit like building a dinosaur from a jawbone or skull fragment, a dissenting federal appeals court judge wrote of his colleagues' expansive reasoning, and the result looks more like a turducken. A ...
Related contentRussian court rules against Jehovah's Witnesses
6 hours ago ago from FanHouse
MOSCOW -Russia's highest court on Tuesday upheld a ruling halting the activities of a regional branch of Jehovah's Witnesses and banning dozens of its publications in what the group deplored as an unfair move. Russian Supreme Court spokesman Pavel Odintsov said it rejected the group's appeal of September's ruling by a regional court in Rostov-on-Don. That ruling outlawed the group's activities in the region, seized its assets there and ...
Related contentNational Briefing | West: Nevada: Charges Are Dismissed
20 hours ago ago from The New York Times
A judge has dismissed charges against Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki and an aide who were accused of misappropriating money from a college savings program. The judge, Valerie Adair of Clark County District Court, said that the four-count felony indictment alleged that the crimes occurred over five years but did not say which funds were used, which transactions were wrong and what duty Mr. Krolicki violated. Judge Adair's ruling said the indictment ...
Related contentMistrial in Case of Broadcaster Accused of Threats to Judges
23 hours ago ago from The New York Times
After jurors in Brooklyn said they were deadlocked, the judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of an incendiary Internet broadcaster charged with threatening three federal judges with death. Jessica Hill/Associated Press Harold Turner, an Internet radio host, of North Bergen, N.J. The three-day trial of the broadcaster and blogger, Harold C. Turner, featured a catalog of his comments about various officials he ...
Related contentCourt case continued for UConn stabbing defendant
8 hours ago ago from Media General - Turnto10.com
Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This Court case continued for UConn stabbing defendant The Associated Press Published: December 8, 2009 VERNON, Conn. - A judge has set a new court date for a man accused of pulling a fire alarm shortly before the stabbing death of a University of Connecticut ...
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