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US cellphone giants to clash in court, on streets
San Francisco - US cellphone carrier AT&T sued its larger rival Verizon on Tuesday, just days before Verizon is to launch a new phone seen as the most credible threat to the iPhone, which in the US runs exclusively on AT&T's network. The lawsuit alle...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Courtroom murder of Egyptian woman wanted to die - Summary
Dresden - A police officer testified on Tuesday that Alex W, accused of murdering a pregnant Egyptian woman in court, had asked to be killed after the deed. Policemen who stormed the courtroom when they heard the commotion, described the bloody, chao...

[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Karadzic trial decision to be issued later this week - Summary
The Hague - The Hague tribunal will decide later this week about the future of the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the judges said at the end of a hearing on Tuesday. The court will give a written decision on whether ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Indonesian maid given six-year jail term for attempted murder
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court has sentenced an Indonesian woman to six years' jail for attempted murder after she laced her employer's coffee with poison, a news report said Tuesday. Nurhayati Ahmad, 22, from Lombok island, pleaded guilty to poiso...

[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Court hearing in Polanski-case scheduled for December
Los Angeles - A Los Angeles court set a December 10 date for a hearing in the case against Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski, the New York Times said in its online edition on Monday. Polanski, 76, was arrested in Zurich on September 26, based on...

[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Accused courtroom murderer was 'aggressive' toward Egyptian - Summary
Dresden,Germany - Alex W, on trial for the courtroom killing of a pregnant Egyptian woman in July, was described as an aggressive, lonely and unhappy man, a Dresden court heard on Monday. One witness to W's initial encounter with Marwa...

[Posted on : 2009-11-02 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Defence calls for case against suspected Nazi killer to be dropped
Aachen,Germany - Lawyers defending a former Nazi SS trooper accused of murdering three civilians in German-occupied Netherlands during World War II called Monday for the case to be dropped. Heinrich Boere, 88, had been sentenced to death in absentia ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-02 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Karadzic expected to be absent again as war crimes trial resumes
The Hague - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is expected to absent himself again from his trial, which is due to resume at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague Monday afternoon. At the hearing, the prosecution of the International Criminal...

[Posted on : 2009-11-02 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Second former death camp guard may face German war crime charges
Munich - As Germany prepares to try John Demjanjuk, 89, for his alleged work in a Nazi death camp, prosecutors are mulling charging a second man who was employed by the Nazi SS, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Sunday. It reported that t...

[Posted on : 2009-11-01 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Malta will not probe Lockerbie star witness
Valletta, Malta - The Maltese government said on Saturday it is not prepared to investigate the testimony of the key Lockerbie trial witness, despite claims his evidence wrongly incriminated the Libyan man convicted of the bombing. The Justice Mini...

[Posted on : 2009-10-31 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

 

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