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ICTY temporarily releases reporter indicted for exposing witness identity
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] Friday provisionally released [press release] a Kosovar journalist indicted [PDF text; JURIST report] on contempt of court charges for allegedly publishing the identity of a witness in the war crimes trial of former Kosovar Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj [TrialWatch profile; JURIST Forum op-ed].

Dog appears as witness in murder trial
Dog appears as witness in murder trialA dog nicknamed "Scooby" has become the first animal in the world to appear as a witness in a murder trial. The animal is believed to have been with his 59-year-old owner when she was found hanging from the ceiling of her Paris flat...

CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY DISBARRED FOR FAILURE TO PROPERLY REPRESENT DEFENDANT IN HIS ROBBERY TRIAL RESULTING IN HIS CONVICTION
An attorney was recently disbarred from the practice of law by the California State Bar for his failure to properly defend a client in a robbery trial. At the defendants first trial the lawyer called an expert witness who testified as to the unreliability of eyewitness testimony...

Forfeiting Peremptory Challenges Used in a Discriminatory Manner is a Permissible Remedy for Batson Violations
The Court of Appeals, in People v Luciano, 2008 NY Slip Op 04898 [6/3/08] has held that forfeiture or permeptory challenges is a permissible remedy for attorneys who exercise peremtory challenges in violation of the constitiuion under Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 [1986] and its progeny...

COA Vacates Criminal Contempt Because It Was Based On Acts Occuring After Show Cause Order
Today in State v. Coleman the Court of Appeals (COA) clarified that (generally) a party cannot be held in criminal contempt based on acts committed on dates other than the dates charged in the show cause order...

DIET DRUG TRIAL: Stan Billingsley has some interesting posts on the criminal trial of the "Diet Drug Lawyers"
Cincinnati Whistleblower Blog Sums up Fen Phen Testimony The parties in Fen Phen Trial Witness told to destroy Fen Phen records - Mills hospitalized Fen Phen Trial Update May 30 - May 31

Law & Order Depicts Police Procedures and Criminal Justice
Accuracy of Criminal Justice Depiction on Television

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Windows Software
Microsoft fined $1.3 billion for failing to comply with the European Union's antitrust order.

Negligent Death
Family of New York Times reporter awarded undisclosed settlement for medical malpractice.

Wal-Mart
Avoids Criminal Charges over Clerk's Death

Drug Pusher
Biovail agrees to pay $24.6 million settlement in criminal lawsuit.

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...