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Down With Everybody (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
[ Independent ] The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage. Jurors accepted defence arguments that the...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
By Linda Deutsch, AP Special CorrespondentLOS ANGELES — A federal prosecutor claimed Tuesday that taped phone calls between Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and a high-powered lawyer showed they were conducting illegal wiretaps, even though the alleged wiretapped recordings have never been found.In his closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Saunders played a phone conversation...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
LOS ANGELES — A federal prosecutor claimed Tuesday that taped phone calls between Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and a high-powered lawyer showed they were conducting illegal wiretaps, even though the alleged wiretapped recordings have never been found.In his closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Saunders played a phone conversation for jurors in which Pellicano told attorney...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The judge in the criminal trial of Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska will hear arguments Wednesday on a defense motion to dismiss the case, then must weigh another dismissal motion that was filed overnight.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Broadcaster has to pay costs in continuing Panorama libel action after withdrawing one of its defence arguments
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Jurors in the trial of Senator Ted Stevens were dismissed for the day after discovery that prosecutors had withheld information that was suppose to be turned over to the defense.
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
... murder and attempted murder charges on Sept. 13, State District Judge Raymond Bigelow agreed with defense arguments that prosecutors violated state law by divulging secret grand jury testimony to a police officer who was a witness in the case. "The violation is clear," Bigelow said in making the ruling. Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005. In its aftermath, levees broke, flooding 80 percent...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
... murder and attempted murder charges on Sept. 13, State District Judge Raymond Bigelow agreed with defense arguments that prosecutors violated state law by divulging secret grand jury testimony to a police officer who was a witness in the case."The violation is clear," Bigelow said in making the ruling.Confrontation at bridgeSurvivors of the Sept. 4, 2005, shootings have said the officers...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
... murder and attempted murder charges on Sept. 13, State District Judge Raymond Bigelow agreed with defense arguments that prosecutors violated state law by divulging secret grand jury testimony to a police officer who was a witness in the case."The violation is clear," Bigelow said in making the ruling.Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005. In its aftermath, levees broke, flooding 80 percent...
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
MUMBAI: The sessions court will pass its order on Monday on an application filed by Ayush Bhat, one of the key accused in the Adnan Patrawala murder case, stating that he was a juvenile at the time of the incident and should thus be tried by the juvenile court.Additional sessions judge R G Avachat on Tuesday heard the prosecution and defence arguments and has reserved the application...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
... that the plot was a "jihadi fantasy" the accused knew nothing about.The judge rejected that defense."He clearly understood the camp was for terrorist purposes," he said.The defense, with the help of the prosecution's star witness, had cast the plot as "musings and fantasies" with no possibility of being carried out.Sproat however said few would have believed the Sept. 11 attacks in...
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The Eagle World (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
... deadly conspiracy. He had pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges.Sproat rejected the defense argument that the plot was a "jihadi fantasy" that the defendant knew nothing about."He clearly understood the camp was for terrorist purposes," he said.The defense had cast the plot as "musings and fantasies" with no possibility of being carried out."It might well have been...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
... deadly conspiracy. He had pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges.Sproat rejected the defense argument that the plot was a "jihadi fantasy" that the defendant knew nothing about."He clearly understood the camp was for terrorist purposes," he said.The defense, with the help of the prosecution's star witness, had cast the plot as "musings and fantasies" with no possibility...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
... deadly conspiracy. He had pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges.Sproat rejected the defense argument that the plot was a "jihadi fantasy" that the defendant knew nothing about."He clearly understood the camp was for terrorist purposes," he said.The defense, with the help of the prosecution's star witness, had cast the plot as "musings and fantasies" with no possibility...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
... deadly conspiracy. He had pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges.Sproat rejected the defense argument that the plot was a “jihadi fantasy” that the defendant knew nothing about. “He clearly understood the camp was for terrorist purposes,” he said.The defense, with the help of the prosecution’s star witness, had cast the plot as “musings and fantasies” with no possibility...
