• Controversial 'rectal feeding' technique used to control detainees' behaviour

    Controversial 'rectal feeding' technique used to control detainees' behaviour
    CIA report shows at least five detainees were subjected to the extreme medical practice, better knows as a nutrient enemaCIA operatives subjected at least five detainees to what they called “rectal rehydration and feeding”, a medical practice applied with extreme rarity and known more colloquially as a nutrient enema, according to a Senate intelligence committee report released Tuesday.The CIA forced the nutrient enemas on two detainees who attempted hunger strikes, a third who “partially
  • CIA torture program: Senate report details abuse of detainees – as it happened

    CIA torture program: Senate report details abuse of detainees – as it happened
    Feinstein: torture ‘far more brutal than people were led to believe’UN calls for prosecutionsReport says ‘techniques were not effective’Read the report as released (pdf)
    Read the latest blog summary 5.50pm ET We’re going to wrap up our live blog coverage for the day. Here’s a summary of where things stand:By October 2004, Gul’s accuser recanted. It is unclear if that accuser gave up Gul in the first place after he was himself tortured. The CIA transferred Gul to an unknown foreign
  • Senate's CIA torture report: Everyone has an opinion except the White House

    Senate's CIA torture report: Everyone has an opinion except the White House
    Obama administration refuses to say whether it endorses scathing findings Anonymous officials say their main job is to maintain CIA morale
    The White House has been left stranded between rapidly polarising reactions to the Senate torture report on Tuesday as officials refused to say whether they agreed with its chief finding that the brutal techniques used by the CIA were of no practical use in fighting terrorism.The administration also ducked the question of whether it would be taking any action
  • White House used executive privilege to hide thousands of CIA documents, report finds – live

    White House used executive privilege to hide thousands of CIA documents, report finds – live
    Feinstein: torture ‘far more brutal than people were led to believe’UN calls for prosecutionsReport says ‘techniques were not effective’Read the report as released (pdf)
    Read the latest blog summary 5.14pm ET If you prefer to take your news aurally, this is an informative WBEZ news spot, with commentary by Katherine Hawkins, a national security fellow at @openthegov: "Just call it torture." says @Krhawkins5 to the Media #CIA #TortureReport @OpenTheGov http://t.co/W2JQmTCAwD 5.0
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  • Shocking cases in CIA report reveal an American torture program in disarray

    Shocking cases in CIA report reveal an American torture program in disarray
    Years of leaks about the CIA’s post-9/11 torture efforts failed to reveal a program as brutal, unaccountable and even chaotic as the one portrayed on TuesdayPanel: reading between the redactions in the CIA reportJanat Gul begged the CIA for death.Delivered to the CIA in July 2004 by a foreign ally, Gul was thought to have intelligence about an attack on the US planned to take place ahead of the presidential election. Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, authorized CIA director Geor
  • Senate hearing puts spotlight on reporting of campus sex assaults

    Senate hearing puts spotlight on reporting of campus sex assaults
    Only a fraction of victims go to police, preferring to work with universities
    Many prefer to stay silent, and some aren’t told they can pursue criminal caseConcern that law enforcement is being marginalized to protect schools
    Comment is free: ‘I’m a victim of sexual assault and the law failed’Only a fraction of campus sexual assault victims go to police. Senators on Tuesday grappled with the thorny issue of why some just let their college handle it — or don’t report it at all.Some se
  • Shock and anal probe: reading between the redactions in the CIA torture report | The panel

    Shock and anal probe: reading between the redactions in the CIA torture report | The panel
    We asked the experts – terrorism prosecutors, former spies, doctors and human rights lawyers – to comb through hundreds of pages and expose the new truths that matter most to historyThe grisliest findings in the CIA torture reportThe 20 key findings and conclusionsTrevor Timm: Stop believing the lies – America tortured more than ‘some folks’Plus: Complete coverage of the CIA torture report[A]ccording to CIA records, seven of the 39 CIA detainees known to have been subjected to the CIA�
  • Duane Morris Relaunches UK Employment Practice With Partner Hire - The American Lawyer (registration)

    Duane Morris Relaunches UK Employment Practice With Partner Hire - The American Lawyer (registration)
    The American Lawyer (registration)
    Duane Morris Relaunches UK Employment Practice With Partner Hire
    The American Lawyer (registration)
    All told, the Philadelphia-based firm employs about 60 employment lawyers but hasn't had a full-time employment partner in London since 2008, when Tola Ogundimu left to become a sole practitioner. Duane Morris opened its London office in 2000. Cooper's ...
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  • Experts let CIA torture report's most damning lines speak for themselves

    Experts let CIA torture report's most damning lines speak for themselves
    As journalists, experts, and advocates sift through the Senate report in real time, a picture of brutality, obfuscation and mismanagement emerges
    CIA torture report brands post-9/11 program as brutal and ineffective
    Senator Dianne Feinstein has released the Senate intelligence committee’s long-anticipated report on CIA torture. Reporters and experts are combing through its hundreds of pages as we speak, and are documenting what they discover in real time.
    While we’ve already summarized som
  • Waterboarding and sleep deprivation: how the CIA tortured its detainees

    Waterboarding and sleep deprivation: how the CIA tortured its detainees
    Waterboarding, confinement, sleep deprivation – Oliver Laughland takes a look at some of the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ used by the agencyLive blog: get the latest on the Senate report on CIA tortureCIA’s brutal use of torture revealed in landmark reportThe CIA, and the Senate intelligence committee, would rather avoid the word “torture,” preferring euphemisms like “enhanced interrogation techniques” and “rendition, detention and interrogation program”. Many of the t
  • Exonerated after 40 years: Ohio man says 'I could have been Barack Obama'

    Exonerated after 40 years:  Ohio man says 'I could have been Barack Obama'
    Judge dismisses all charges and prosecutor concedes three men convicted in 1975 murder ‘have been the victims of a terrible injustice’ Having just exonerated Kwame Ajamu, Judge Pamela Barker stepped down from the bench on Tuesday, leaned across the defense table and gave him a hug.It had taken nearly 40 years, but Ajamu was no longer a convicted murderer. Continue reading...
  • Even if it ‘works’, torture can never be right or made legal | Andrew Brown

    Even if it ‘works’, torture can never be right or made legal | Andrew Brown
    The history of torture is long. From the 17th century to the modern-day CIA, it has been used to extract informationTorture, like slavery, is one of those cruelties which are condemned by all right-minded people but which may never have been more popular in practice. So the people who advocate it – among them perhaps the CIA operatives found to have practised torture in the wake of 9/11 – will normally claim that they are advocating some other policy which coincidentally involves the deliber
  • Ohio man exonerated after 40 years as judge dismisses all charges

    Ohio man exonerated after 40 years as judge dismisses all charges
    Prosecutor concedes three men convicted in 1975 murder were wrongly incarcerated and ‘have been the victims of a terrible injustice’ Having just exonerated Kwame Ajamu, Judge Pamela Barker stepped down from the bench on Tuesday, leaned across the defense table and gave him a hug.It had taken nearly 40 years, but Ajamu was no longer a convicted murderer. Continue reading...
  • Murder conviction quashed thanks to 30 law students' homework - The Independent

    Murder conviction quashed thanks to 30 law students' homework - The Independent
    The Independent
    Murder conviction quashed thanks to 30 law students' homework
    The Independent
    After his application to appeal was first turned down in 2004, Mr George, now 30, wrote to the newly founded Innocence Network UK, a small group of linked British law schools inspired by similar projects in the United States. Students from Cardiff Law ...
    Murder conviction overturned thanks to Cardiff law studentsThe Guardian
    Law students help clear innocent manThe Times (subscription)

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  • Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about 'ineffective' program

    Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about 'ineffective' program
    Report released by Senate after four-year, $40m investigation concludes CIA repeatedly lied about brutal techniques in years after 9/11CIA torture report released – follow live reactionThe key methods used in the CIA’s torture of detaineesStop believing the lies: America tortured more than ‘some folks’ and covered it upThe CIA’s post-9/11 embrace of torture was brutal and ineffective – and the agency repeatedly lied and misled the White House, Congress and the public about its useful
  • 'Surprisingly few people responsible' for CIA torture program, report finds – live

    'Surprisingly few people responsible' for CIA torture program, report finds – live
    Feinstein: torture ‘far more brutal than people were led to believe’UN calls for prosecutionsReport says ‘techniques were not effective’Read the report as released (pdf)
    Read the latest blog summary 2.58pm ET Here’s a portion of a just-published Guardian editorial on the Senate report :
    In one sense, it is a tribute to the US that it has published such a report. It is certainly a huge contrast to the cosy inadequacy of UK policy, practice and accountability – shortcomings that parl
  • As children starve, where’s the state? | Zoe Williams

    As children starve, where’s the state? | Zoe Williams
    The food bank row has wider implications. Our rights are being stolen from us and we want them backOne great success – perhaps we’ll look back on this as the great success – of the current government has been to reframe human rights as something that only criminals and destitute foreigners need.They did not manage this unaided: the trend for the past 20 years has been to avoid saying “rights” if you possibly can, preferring “dignity” (for older people), “life
  • The Guardian view on the US torture report: America’s shame and disgrace | Editorial

    The Guardian view on the US torture report: America’s shame and disgrace | Editorial
    Torturing detainees after 9/11 was wrong in principle, ineffective in practice, and has damaged the credibility of democracy, the rule of law and the USAPresident Ronald Reagan signed the United Nations convention against torture in 1988 and the United States ratified it six years later in 1994. Seven years after that, in 2001, the US nevertheless started to use torture on a systematic basis. That use continued for several years. In 2009 the practice was banned by President Obama. On Tuesday, th
  • Murder conviction overturned thanks to Cardiff law students - The Guardian

    Murder conviction overturned thanks to Cardiff law students - The Guardian
    The Guardian
    Murder conviction overturned thanks to Cardiff law students
    The Guardian
    George, who has always maintained his innocence, was helped by law students at Cardiff University working under the university's Innocence Project, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice. Quashing his conviction today, one of the most ...
    Murder conviction quashed thanks to 30 law students' homeworkIrish Independent
    Law students help clear innocent manThe Times (subscription)
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  • Murder conviction overturned thanks to Cardiff law students

    Murder conviction overturned thanks to Cardiff law students
    Dwaine George spent 12 years in jail but his conviction was quashed after work by the university’s Innocence ProjectThe victim of a miscarriage of justice has praised the students who investigated his case, after a historic ruling saw his murder conviction overturned on appeal thanks to the work of a team lead by Cardiff University.Dwaine George, now aged 30, was jailed for life in 2002 for the shooting of 18-year-old Daniel Dale in Manchester, and served 12 years behind bars on a life sentenc
  • Experts' most shocking findings from the CIA torture report

    Experts' most shocking findings from the CIA torture report
    As journalists, experts, and advocates sift through the Senate report in real time, a picture of brutality, obfuscation and mismanagement emerges
    CIA torture report brands post-9/11 program as brutal and ineffective
    Senator Dianne Feinstein has released the Senate intelligence committee’s long-anticipated report on CIA torture. Reporters and experts are combing through its hundreds of pages as we speak, and are documenting what they discover in real time.
    While we’ve already summarized som
  • Landmark report on CIA torture brands program as ineffective and brutal

    Landmark report on CIA torture brands program as ineffective and brutal
    Report released by Senate after four-year, $40m investigation concludes CIA repeatedly lied about brutal techniques in years after 9/11CIA torture report released – follow live reactionThe key methods used in the CIA’s torture of detaineesThe CIA’s post-9/11 embrace of torture was brutal and ineffective – and the agency repeatedly lied and misled the White House, Congress and the public about its usefulness, a milestone report by the Senate intelligence committee released on Tuesday conc
  • US report on 'enhanced interrogation' concludes: torture doesn't work

    US report on 'enhanced interrogation' concludes: torture doesn't work
    Report says that CIA detainees subjected to ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ produced either faulty intelligence or no intelligence at allLandmark report reveals brutal and ineffective use of torture
    The Senate report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program represents the most authoritative and comprehensive finding since the US launched its so-called “war on terror” more than 13 years ago that torture does not work.That conclusion will be contested, most of all by former
  • Eleanor de Freitas should never have been charged, police say

    Eleanor de Freitas should never have been charged, police say
    Detectives who investigated rape complaint say De Freitas should never have been charged with perverting course of justicePolice who investigated a rape complaint from a woman who went on to kill herself, after being accused of lying by prosecutors, maintain she should never have been charged with perverting the course of justice.The specialist sex-crime officers who investigated the rape complaint made by Eleanor de Freitas, 23, consistently refused to support prosecutors in a case against her
  • CIA torture report brands post-9/11 program as brutal and ineffective

    CIA torture report brands post-9/11 program as brutal and ineffective
    Report released by Senate after four-year, $40m investigation concludes CIA repeatedly lied about brutal techniques in years after 9/11CIA torture report released – follow live reactionThe key methods used in the CIA’s torture of detaineesThe CIA’s post-9/11 embrace of torture was brutal and ineffective – and the agency repeatedly lied about its usefulness, a milestone report by the Senate intelligence committee released on Tuesday concludes.After examining 20 case studies, the report fo
  • UN calls for architects of CIA terror program to be 'brought to justice' – live

    UN calls for architects of CIA terror program to be 'brought to justice' – live
    Feinstein: torture ‘far more brutal than people were led to believe’ Senate report finds CIA misled Congress and publicReport says ‘techniques were not effective’How the CIA tortured its detaineesFeinstein: CIA paid two contractors $81m Read the report as released (pdf) 1.07pm ET The Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman and Alan Yuhas have assembled a list of key figures attached to the Senate report released today, including officials, torturers, tortured detainees and other detainees held at
  • Rolling Stone threw a rape victim to the misogynist horde

    Rolling Stone threw a rape victim to the misogynist horde
    In trying to distract from its shoddy journalism, Rolling Stone has made Jackie an anti-feminist rallying point – bogus proof that women lie about rape to ruin men’s livesThe past few days have been remarkably demoralising for anti-rape activists, and that’s really saying something in a field pretty much defined by exhaustion and nausea. In case you missed it, or are simply bewildered by the labyrinthine switchbacks, I’ll try to sum up. A few weeks ago, Rolling Stone magazine published a
  • Rectal rehydration and waterboarding: how the CIA tortured its detainees

    Rectal rehydration and waterboarding: how the CIA tortured its detainees
    Waterboarding, confinement, sleep deprivation – Oliver Laughland takes a look at some of the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ used by the agencyLive blog: get the latest on the Senate report on CIA tortureCIA’s brutal use of torture revealed in landmark reportThe CIA, and the Senate intelligence committee, prefers to avoid the word “torture,” preferring euphemisms like “enhanced interrogation techniques” and “rendition, detention and interrogation program”. Many of the tec
  • Legal profession calls for greater protection from mass surveillance

    Legal profession calls for greater protection from mass surveillance
    Bar Council, Law Society and Scotland’s Faculty of Advocates demand legal safeguards to prevent state eavesdroppingFresh legal safeguards are needed to prevent police and the security services from eavesdropping on meetings between lawyers and their clients, according to the legal profession.A joint statement from the Bar Council, the Law Society and Scotland’s Faculty of Advocates has called for greater protection from the mass internet and telephone surveillance revealed by the US whistleb
  • The Senate intelligence committee's report on CIA torture – read the document

    The Senate intelligence committee's report on CIA torture – read the document
    Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday released her committee’s findings on CIA torture, which found the agency’s post-9/11 embrace of torture to be brutal and ineffective. The full committee study, at 6,700 pages, remains classifiedGet the latest news and comment on the CIA torture report Continue reading...
  • The key methods used in the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation' of detainees

    The key methods used in the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation' of detainees
    Waterboarding, confinement, sleep deprivation – Oliver Laughland takes a look at some of the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ used by the agencyLive blog: get the latest on the Senate report on CIA tortureCIA’s brutal use of torture revealed in landmark reportThe CIA, and the Senate intelligence committee, prefers to avoid the word “torture,” preferring euphemisms like “enhanced interrogation techniques” and “rendition, detention and interrogation program”. Many of the tec
  • Dianne Feinstein: CIA torture 'far more brutal than people were led to believe' – live

    Dianne Feinstein: CIA torture 'far more brutal than people were led to believe' – live
    Senate report finds CIA misled Congress and publicReport says ‘techniques were not effective’Read the report as released (pdf) 12.07pm ET Here is a link to download a rebuttal by Republicans on the Senate intelligence committee to today’s report. Authors include the incoming chairman of the committee, Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina:GOP Torture Report Rebuttal: http://t.co/lHppjo0RfG 12.05pm ET Feinstein reads the restrictions on paper on CIA interrogation techniques. None was obser
  • Chamber of Commerce forms elite law team with $900,000-a-year leader

    Chamber of Commerce forms elite law team with $900,000-a-year leader
    Business lobby creates pro-business boutique law firm packed with former Bush administration appointeesLawyer turns supreme court arguments into $50m advisory relationship with Walmart
    The chief American business lobby, the US chamber of commerce, has created the equivalent of a pro-business boutique law firm at its headquarters packed with former Bush administration appointees, in an effort to influence the supreme court. Nonprofit and labor organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties U
  • Dianne Feinstein says CIA torture report 'too important to shelve' – live

    Dianne Feinstein says CIA torture report 'too important to shelve' – live
    Senate report finds CIA misled Congress and publicReport says ‘techniques were not effective’Click here for link to summary of report
    11.43am ET As you listen to Feinstein on CSPAN, you might follow Trevor Timm and Spencer Ackerman on Twitter as they unpack the document:CIA leadership refused to punish officer who literally killed a detainee during torture session. pic.twitter.com/8Jsm9P52nwCIA official or Cersei Lannister? pic.twitter.com/vlh86ZuNCQ 11.40am ET “A surprisingly few people
  • The key methods used in the CIA's torture of detainees

    The key methods used in the CIA's torture of detainees
    Waterboarding, confinement, sleep deprivation – Oliver Laughland takes a look at some of the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ used by the agencyLive blog: get the latest on the Senate report on CIA tortureCIA’s brutal use of torture revealed in landmark reportThe CIA, and the Senate intelligence committee, prefers to avoid the word “torture,” preferring euphemisms like “enhanced interrogation techniques” and “rendition, detention and interrogation program”. Many of the tec
  • CIA's brutal and ineffective use of torture revealed in landmark report

    CIA's brutal and ineffective use of torture revealed in landmark report
    Report released by Senate after four-year, $40m investigation concludes CIA repeatedly lied about brutal techniques in years after 9/11CIA torture report released – follow live reactionThe CIA’s post-9/11 embrace of torture was brutal and ineffective – and the agency repeatedly lied about its usefulness, a milestone report by the Senate intelligence committee released on Tuesday concludes.After examining 20 case studies, the report found that torture “regularly resulted in fabricated inf
  • Lawyer turns supreme court argument into $50m relationship with Walmart

    Lawyer turns supreme court argument into $50m relationship with Walmart
    Top lawyers succeed in repeatedly appearing before high court
    Lawyers with the most access will only take cases that do not hurt interests
    Environmental groups, unions and consumer class-action suits out in the cold
    On a March morning in 2011, lawyer Ted Boutrous approached the lectern at the US supreme court. Boutrous represented the world’s largest retailer, Walmart, in one of the most anticipated business cases in years: more than 1.5 million female employees alleged systematic gender discr
  • CIA torture report: Dianne Feinstein to speak from Senate floor – live

    CIA torture report: Dianne Feinstein to speak from Senate floor – live
    Senate intelligence committee to release part of 6,000-page report on the spy agency’s torture program. Follow live build-up and reaction here 10.40am ET Good morning and welcome to our live blog coverage of the anticipated release of a major new chapter in the secret history of a torture program operated by the CIA at clandestine sites around the world in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.Senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein is scheduled to deliver remarks about the CIA tortur
  • Barristers' clerk 'tried to rape junior lawyer in her hotel room after he took ... - Daily Mail

    Barristers' clerk 'tried to rape junior lawyer in her hotel room after he took ... - Daily Mail
    Daily Mail
    Barristers' clerk 'tried to rape junior lawyer in her hotel room after he took ...
    Daily Mail
    A barristers' legal clerk attempted to rape a junior woman lawyer after a solicitors' Christmas party, a court heard. Married Jason Britcher, 40, crept in to the sleeping woman's hotel room after texting her at 3am to ask where she was. The victim, who ...
    Man 'crept into lawyer's room and tried to rape her' after Christmas partyMetro

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  • Barristers' clerk Jason Britcher 'tried to rape junior lawyer in her hotel room' - Daily Mail

    Barristers' clerk Jason Britcher 'tried to rape junior lawyer in her hotel room' - Daily Mail
    Daily Mail
    Barristers' clerk Jason Britcher 'tried to rape junior lawyer in her hotel room'
    Daily Mail
    A barristers' legal clerk attempted to rape a junior woman lawyer after a solicitors' Christmas party, a court heard. Married Jason Britcher, 40, crept in to the sleeping woman's hotel room after texting her at 3am to ask where she was. The victim, who ...
    Man 'crept into lawyer's room and tried to rape her' after Christmas partyMetro
    Legal clerk who 'tr
  • UK Court Case Against Google Could Clarify Law On Private Data - TechCrunch

    UK Court Case Against Google Could Clarify Law On Private Data - TechCrunch
    TechCrunch
    UK Court Case Against Google Could Clarify Law On Private Data
    TechCrunch
    The U.K. data protection watchdog, the ICO, has intervened in a court case brought against Google on privacy grounds by a group of U.K. Internet users because it is interested in how aspects of the case might help clarify questions around the ...
    Google in court again over 'right to be above British law' on alleged secret ...The Independent
    Google appeal trial over UK legal action beginsScotsman

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  • DPP defends decision to prosecute rape complainant who killed herself

    DPP defends decision to prosecute rape complainant who killed herself
    Case against Eleanor de Freitas was strong, says Alison Saunders, director of public prosecutions, defending CPSThe director of public prosecutions has vigorously defended the decision to prosecute a rape complainant who went on to kill herself days before her trial for perverting the course of justice.Alison Saunders, the DPP, has carried out an examination into the case of Eleanor de Freitas, a 23-year-old woman who took her own life when the man she alleged had raped her pursued a private pro
  • Dead prisoner’s mother awarded £8,000 over delayed inquest

    Dead prisoner’s mother awarded £8,000 over delayed inquest
    James McDonnell died of heart attack at Maghaberry prison near Belfast in 1996 after being restrained by prison officersThe European court of human rights has found that there was an excessive delay to an inquest into a Northern Ireland prisoner’s death at a top security jail.The Strasbourg-based court on Tuesday supported Elizabeth McDonnell’s complaint about the investigation into her son’s death at Maghaberry prison outside Belfast. Continue reading...
  • March with me, and stop children being robbed of childhood | Kailash Satyarthi

    March with me, and stop children being robbed of childhood | Kailash Satyarthi
    Winning the Nobel peace price with Malala Yousafzai reinforced my belief that working together we can end slavery and change children’s lives for the betterWhen I first caught word of the announcement that Malala Yousafzai and I would be this year’s Nobel peace prize recipients, a swirl of joyful emotions overcame me. As family, friends, staff, members of the media and various well-wishers swarmed my Delhi office, it was as if I’d been transported to the time nearly 50 years ago when I exp
  • Legal leaders join hands against client snooping

    Legal leaders join hands against client snooping
    Professional privilege must be protected from state surveillance, Law Society and Bar Council demand.
  • I'm a victim of sexual assault and the law failed. How many of us must speak out for you to believe? | Megan Carpentier

    I'm a victim of sexual assault and the law failed. How many of us must speak out for you to believe? | Megan Carpentier
    Yes, Virginia, there is a system of injusticePlus: Rolling Stone’s rape story is about a person – and I believe herI am not a victim of sexual assault.At least, I am not a victim of sexual assault according to the commonwealth of Virginia. Jesus Rivera, aka Vladamir Marroquin-Rivera, pleaded guilty to just two charges on 29 July 2008: one count of misdemeanor unlawful entry and one count of felony cocaine possession. He was released from the state’s custody four months to the day after the
  • UK judge praises students for helping overturn murder conviction

    UK judge praises students for helping overturn murder conviction
    Ex-gang member Dwaine George’s conviction for 2001 murder quashed after Cardiff University law students took up caseA judge has praised the “diligent” work of law students for helping overturn a former gang member’s murder conviction.Dwaine George, 30, was convicted of the shooting of 18-year-old Daniel Dale in Manchester in 2001, and jailed for life in 2002. Continue reading...
  • Dr Luke suing celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos over Lady Gaga rape tweets

    Dr Luke suing celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos over Lady Gaga rape tweets
    Songwriter is seeking damages from Kesha’s lawyer, after he allegedly posted tweets that Luke assaulted Lady GagaDr Luke is suing celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos over Geragos’s tweets, which alleged that Luke had raped Lady Gaga. Dr Luke is seeking unspecified damages from Geragos, who represents Kesha in her ongoing sexual battery case against the producer, according to TMZ.
    Geragos’s comments followed news on 2 December that Gaga had been assaulted by one of her collaborators when she wa
  • Ombudsman hires lottery fund chief

    Ombudsman hires lottery fund chief
    Ian Brack takes on responsibility for expansion in jurisdiction. 

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