Citing a case decided in June by the Supreme Court, Maryland's highest court held Thursday that a lab analyst who testifies at a criminal trial must be the one who conducted or supervised the DNA tests being offered into evidence. The Court of Appeals' overturned Norman Bruce Derr's 2006 conviction for a 1984 rape, saying he was denied the right to confront and cross-examine the lab technicians who "perform[ed] or observ[ed]" the body-fluid and DNA tests that were introduced at trial.
Fujimori is only the most famous of Peru's convicted human rights abusers. Since 2001, when an Inter-American Court of Human Rights decision nullified the country's 1995 amnesty law, opening up the possibility for criminal trials in human rights cases, there have been almost a dozen successful convictions, including eight with firm sentences and dozens of other cases in trial. [...] there now exists a series of state institutions dedicated primarily to investigating and prosecuting such cases.
Yesterday, a drunk driver learned that his conviction will stand - - even though there are no witnesses who saw him in a motor vehicle at the time in question. The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday decided that information generated from an electronic monitoring device worn by the defendant was enough to convict.
Case brings cheers, tears from Seattle SEATTLE -- In a tearful end to a tense vigil that had gone throughout the night, friends and supporters of Amanda Knox erupted in cheers and raised fists Monday as the jury decision acquitting her of murder in Italy was read. "I'm not surprised, but I'm hugely relieved, because anything could have happened," said John Lange, Knox's drama teacher at Seattle Preparatory School, where she attended before going to Italy as a college student. "We knew there was no way she could have done this," he said. "She was sweet. She never did anything to harm anybody else. She was not conniving. She was not mean-spirited." His voice breaking, he pulled off his glasses and wiped back tears. Exhausted but jubilant, about a dozen of nearly 30 supporters who had fill...
KAMPALA, Uganda, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On March 1, 2011 a conviction was announced in a Trafficking in Persons case by the High Court in Masindi, Uganda. According to Bob Goff, President of Restore International, who participated in the trial earlier this month, this marks a monumental step in Uganda's fight against human trafficking. In October 2009, Uganda enacted its Prevention of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Act but had yet to see it utilized until this case was brought. The law prohibits trafficking in persons and body parts and creates a framework for prosecution and punishment of outlined offenses. The accused were the first to be charged under the new law after kidnapping a young boy, removing body parts for ritual witchcraft practices, and leaving him for dea...
During the trial of a man accused of killing his wife, the prosecutor made an impermissible "golden rule" argument to the jury, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled in vacating the husband's murder conviction. The defendant's wife died from a single shotgun wound to her face. Despite initially telling the police it was suicide, the defendant later admitted he shot his wife by accident.
The attempted rape conviction of a former Auburn Correctional Facility inmate is being reinstated. The state Court of Appeals last week ruled that the shackling of Raymond Clyde, 40, during his Cayuga County trial was harmless error and that the order of the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, which granted a new trial on related charges, should be reversed.
Maryland's highest court has withdrawn a decision it took nearly three years to issue -- which, in turn, erased the murder conviction the Oct. 25 decision had revived. Monday's one-sentence order offered little explanation for the court's rare step, saying only that "in light of" a motion for reconsideration it had received, the Court of Appeals had concluded it should not have heard the case.
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