The decision by Bill Berkeley, an American journalist who worked in Rwanda during the massacres in 1994, to appear as a witness in a war crimes trial raises questions about the responsibilities journalists have to the justice syste...
For example, they must disclose evidence to the accused and cannot engage in illegal actions such as coercing witnesses. The prosecutor also must prove all the elements of the crime to win the case; in the United States, for example, each element of a crime must be proven beyond a ...
"The joint request will allow both the Commonwealth and defense adequate time to prepare for the trial, accommodate the schedule of new witnesses, including expert witnesses, will allow for the testing and disclosures by the experts timely before trial, and will result in a far...
NEW YORK —Prosecutors restedtheir hush money case against Donald Trumpon Monday, turning it over to the former president’s lawyers for a chance to call witnesses. The prosecution’s final witness, at least for now, was its most important: Trump attorney-turned-adversaryMichael Cohen, whom t...
This affair raises two questions: First, was Prime Minister Trudeau correct that the prosecutors should negotiate a DPA in this case? Second, if the answer to the first question is yes, was it appropriate for the Prime Minister to press his Attorney General to pursue that approach? My answer...
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Next it was Holmes' turn, though her attorneys hadn't made prior indications she'd testify. Holmes pulled down her COVID mask, appeared composed on the stand and at times smiled while answering questions about herself and Theranos. "We worked for years with teams of scientists and...
The lawyers write that they plan to raise questions for the court to evaluate, including the intersection between thePresidential Records Actand the criminal laws cited in the indictment, and say they may pursue challenges to the classification status of certain records at issue. ...
” U.S. District Court Judge Daniel D. Domenico wrote in his order Tuesday. He noted that some of the investigators pointed out “behind the scenes at the time, the investigation wasn’t complete, there were loose ends to tie up, and there were too many questions to answer before a ...
The prosecution was especially contemptuous of defense questions to Poppell about bullets brought into the sheriff's department after the Gutierrez-Reed trial earlier this year by a good Samaritan who said the ammunition was the source of the round that killed Hutchins and that Kenney had dupe...