International Law

KS murder convicts get new trial in Emporia
They were accused of robbing a disabled woman and beating her to death, the Gazette reports. The Kansas Supremes, though, say that an expert witness for the prosecution was prejudicial to two of the four defendants...

"9th Circuit Says Judge Botched Murder-for-Hire Trial"
"9th Circuit Says Judge Botched Murder-for-Hire Trial": Dan Levine of The Recorder has an article that begins, "The judicial careers of Richard Tallman and William Fletcher are uniquely intertwined...

"Can murder victim's statements be used at trial"
"Can murder victim's statements be used at trial?" Mark Sherman of The Associated Press provides this report. And Law Professor Richard D. Friedman -- author of "The Confrontation Blog" -- has a preview of the case headlined "Does an Accused Forfeit the Confrontation Right by Murdering a Witness, Absent a Purpose to Render Her Unavailable?"

Witness anonymity: a slippery slope
The decision this week to halt a murder trial at the Old Bailey follows a ruling on June 19 by the House of Lords that granting anonymity to witnesses threatened with intimidation could render a trial unfair...

Reporter, Also Witness In Criminal Trial, Challenges Gag Order
A United States District Judge has issued a gag order that raises interesting issues of First Amendment law, because it prohibits a local tv reporter, who's also a witness in the trial, from reporting on that trial...

DIET DRUG TRIAL: Key diet-drug witness expected
Key diet-drug witness expected from Courier Journal The government is expected to present what could be its star witness today in the federal fraud trial of three lawyers accused of plundering Kentucky's $200million fen-phen settlement.

Man Awarded $21 Million for Wrongful Imprisonment for Murder
Man Awarded $21 Million for Wrongful Imprisonment for Murder

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...

Christopher Fairchild
guilty verdict for helping Tommy Baldridge murder James Mollette.