German high court bars police database trawls for terror suspects without cause
German police may not trawl databases to identify possible terrorists without a specific threat to national security, human life or freedom, the German Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday. "A general threat situation, of the kind that has existed...
Enron jury instruction to allow lower burden of proof to convict Lay, Skilling
Former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling face an uphill battle after Judge Simeon T. Lake III agreed with prosecutors in the Enron trial Wednesday that jurors should be allowed to find...
BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge rejects Moussaoui bid to pull guilty plea as 'too late'
Federal judge Leonie Brinkema late Monday afternoon quickly rejected a surprise bid by September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui , officially sentenced only last Thursday to life in prison, to withdraw his guilty plea ...
Motion filed together with Affidavit by Zacarias Moussaoui to Withdraw Guilty Plea, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, May 8, 2006. Excerpt:As stated in the attached notarized affidavit from Moussaoui dated May 6, 2005, Moussaoui wishes...
AP is reporting that Zacarias Moussaoui has said that he lied about his involvement in the September 11 terror attacks and has asked to withdraw his guilty plea . Moussaoui was sentenced...
Jury members in the Moussaoui sentencing trial recommended a life sentence for convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui because several jurors believed that Moussaoui only played a minor role in the plot...
Canada PM launches judicial inquiry into Air India terror bombing after acquittals
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has launched a judicial inquiry into the 1985 Air India terrorist bombing that killed 329 people, most of them Canadians, on a flight over the North Atlantic. The...
Philippines president declares state of emergency after coup plot discovered
Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared a national emergency in a taped television address Friday after uncovering a plot to oust her from office. The state of national emergency declaration issued...
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday held that the state's 1999 school voucher law violates the state constitutional requirement of a uniform system of free public schools. The Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) , which was...
The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) , representing Inuit indigenous peoples in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia, has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US government...
