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Breaking: Chucky Taylor Sentenced to 97 Years in Prison
Prosecutors had requested a sentence of 147 years. According to the BBC, Taylor showed no emotion or reaction at his sentencing, and said that his “sympathies go out to all the people who suffered in...
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Meanwhile, in the Congo…
A military court in Katanga province (bottom right on the map over there) handed down a death sentence for Mai-Mai militia leader Kyungu “Commander Gedeon” Mutanga for war crimes and crimes against...
View ArticleNow That’s a Good Use of Video Cameras
Lawyers With Cameras = just awesome. Layda Negrete and Roberto Hernández, two Mexican lawyers who are now Berkeley PhD students, used a brilliant combination of lawyering and videro cameras to save an...
View ArticleAre We Ignoring Africa’s Present, or Our Own Past?
Chris Blattman has an excellent new post up about the role that access to justice should play in development and state-building: “[…]Some people are struck by the similarity of African states to early...
View ArticleThings I Liked Quite a Bit: War Don Don
If you’re in New York this week, or DC next week, I highly recommend checking out War Don Don, a new documentary about former RUF leader Issa Sesay’s trial in the Special Court for Sierra Leone....
View ArticleArms and the Man
For all four of you who were waiting breathlessly for a motions schedule out of celebrity arms dealer Viktor Bout’s pre-trial hearing today, disappointing news: Judge Scheindlin has granted Bout’s...
View ArticleECCC Continues to Confuse Everybody, Especially Me
Remember Case 002 before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (a.k.a. “ECCC” a.k.a. “Khmer Rouge Tribunal” a.k.a. “KRT”)? In case you don’t, it’s the trial of Khmer Rouge regime leaders...
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Viktor Bout Verdict
World famous gun runner / America’s Next Top Moustache hopeful Viktor Bout was convicted today of attempting to sell weapons to the FARC. (For more on Bout and the charges against him, see my post...
View ArticleWTF Friday: 8/31/2012
There were a number of strong contenders for WTF-iest moment this week, including Clint Eastwood’s vaudeville-worthy “Invisible Obama” comic stylings, and the anti-birth control legislator from the...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 10/18/2013
Iran: a criminal justice system so harsh, you could find yourself serving consecutive death sentences. A man given the death penalty for possession of a kilogram of crystal meth somehow survived his...
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