Sljivancanin Appeals Conviction Reversed

Sentence of former Yugoslav army officer reduced from 17 to ten years by judges. By Rachel Irwin - International Justice - ICTY ...

Fat boy executed

Good riddens"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be put to death. ...

Senator Seeks Withdrawal of Guilty Plea in Sex Sting

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) still says he did not solicit sex in a restroom stall after he pleaded guilty to doing just that."ST. PAUL — A lawyer for Senator Larry E. Craig asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Wednesday to allow Mr. Craig to withdraw a guilty plea to...

Experts Predict Slew of Torture Suits

Torture doesn't pay (it doesn't work, either)The Bushes have a 100,000 acre hideaway in Paraguay, which doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US."Last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals announced that its full court would reconsider the disturbing case of Maher...

Va. court grants first writ of actual innocence in Chesapeake case

" - A man convicted in Chesapeake of felony firearm possession has become the first person exonerated under a 2004 Virginia law allowing prisoners to present new, non-DNA evidence of their innocence. The Virginia Court of Appeals granted Darrell Andrew Copeland's writ of...

Virginia executes man who challenged methods

" JARRATT, Virginia  A killer who argued that Virginia's procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the country's second-busiest death chamber. ...

'Wardrobe Malfunction' Fine cancelled by Court

What gets me about this article is the final few lines - For nearly four years, Mrs. Jackson and Mr. Timberlake have been claiming that this was an accidental exposure, and it wasn't planned.  They've been saying that it was a wardrobe malfunction that surprised both of...