Eyewitnesses

Cuba's severe housing crisis, a shortfall of some 600,000 homes with many buildings in poor condition, may ease after President Raul Castro's government recently overturned bans on the sale of houses, bans which...

The Due Process Clause does not require a trial court to screen an out-of-court eyewitness identification for reliability unless it was procured by unnecessarily suggestive circumstances arranged by the police, the U.S. Supreme...

I have been a member of Grassroots Productions since it started about 30 years ago. I have portrayed Uncle Sam at the Greensboro Fun Fourth Festival, which Grassroots sponsors. Uncle Sam also throws...

HEADNOTE Global Witness says "blood diamonds" continue to enter market GLOBAL WITNESS, an international watchdog group at the forefront of the Kimberley Process, announced that it would be leaving the United Nations-backed process....

By Ha'aretz A day after a massive rally in central Israel protested gender segregation and discrimination in Israel, a female Israel Defense Forces soldier reported being accosted by a Haredi man on Wednesday...

Mary French had a gut feeling that something was wrong. Her 78-year-old mother, Lois McCallister, had asked her why the employees at the nursing home where she lived were hurting her. Concerned, French...

Marcus Beam, a driver for truck load carrier Epes Transport Sys tem Inc., Greensboro, N. C. has been selected 2011 Highway Angel of the Year by the Truckload Carriers Association. Beam will be...

Byline: Geoff Grammer The chilly weather apparently hasn't stopped one man from feeling the need to bare it all near downtown Santa Fe. Police are looking for a serial flasher who has been...

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed sympathetic to an argument by a death row inmate that impeachment evidence withheld by prosecutors during his murder trial would have made a difference in...

Despite recent studies questioning the reliability of eyewitness testimony in criminal trials, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appear reluctant to provide special constitutional protections against such evidence, absent a claim that...

HEADNOTE Landmark study gives law enforcement better tools to reduce errors The September execution of Georgia inmate Troy Davis compels us to consider the unthinkable: whether a state's criminal justice system has put...

THE GREEN WAVE DETAILS TBC/80mins./September30 DIRECTOR AliSomadiAhodi CAST Pegah Ferydoni, NavidAkhavan, Shirin Ebadi, Pay am Akhavan IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1 A NOBLE PROJECT IS IMPAIRED by mediocre execution, as All Samadl Ahadi chronicles the...

The Santa Monica-based company has added a new line-up for next week's market including the Stephen Dorff thriller Brake. All seven projects will receive their first market screenings at AFM. In the case...

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HEADNOTE The media and lawmakers have been abuzz with talk of bullying in schools; but bullying doesn't end when you graduate. his alive and well in the workplace, too. IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 According...

HEADNOTE In a criminal justice system where guilty pleas are the norm and trials the rare exception, the issue of how much discovery a defendant is entitled to before allocution has immense significance....

FISHKILL, N.Y. -- Michael S. Pascazi, Esq., of Pascazi Law Offices PLLC has petitioned the NYS Supreme Court, Kings County (Brooklyn) to overturn, with the aid of DNA testing, Shaliq Peterson's 1995 conviction...

Time Warner Also Announces CNN's Anderson Cooper 360x Second Annual Town Hall on Bullying to Air Sunday, Oct. 9, from Rutgers University NEW YORK & PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Facebook and Time Warner...

A recent decision from the New Jersey Supreme Court that found existing state procedures for eyewitness identification invalid could have a major impact in other jurisdictions. In State v. Henderson, a unanimous court...