Luciole Press Blog: Category Archive for Justice

Obama's Justice appointments signal change in terror tactics

Posted by kluciole at 1/5/2009 11:25 PM | Add Comment

4 arrested in N. California gang rape/hate crime attack on lesbian

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2009 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Brazilian police have detained a rancher suspected in the slaying of rain forest activist and U.S. nun Dorothy Stang, for allegedly illegally acquiring titles to land. Stang defended the rights of poor settlers against powerful ranchers wanting their land

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2008 8:35 PM | Add Comment

New Law Gives License to Abuse in Italian Circuses? Concerns Are Growing Over the Abuse of Animals and People

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2008 12:07 PM | Add Comment

Hate Crime -- A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, brutally gang raped: "The level of trauma, physical and emotional, this victim has suffered is extreme." Richmond police are offering a $10,000 reward

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2008 9:12 PM | Add Comment

Pet lovers protest cats on the menu in China; cats are both stolen off the streets (strays and pets) and raised on farms

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 11:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

German court rules too much time has passed to prove whether or not 105-year-old entertainer Johannes Heesters sang for Nazi guards at a concentration camp during World War II

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2008 2:45 AM | Add Comment

Daughter's testimony: murdered Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya saw suspicious strangers near her home in the weeks before she was killed

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:55 AM | Add Comment

Judge allows civil suit over co-worker's perfume; Susan McBride is severely sensitive to perfumes and other cosmetics and has "a potential claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act"

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2008 7:38 AM | Add Comment

Afghan teacher burned in acid attack on 15 schoolgirls and instructors wants the Afghan government to throw acid on attackers and then hang them; authorities have arrested 10 alleged Taliban militants for the Nov. 12 attack

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2008 12:51 PM | Add Comment

Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas this Friday; "(they) will not be arrested, and do not need to appear in person at the arraignment" says Presiding Judge Manuel Banales

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2008 10:22 PM | Add Comment

An AP photo of 2 little girls leads to a reunion in Congo; eleven-year-old Protegee had carried her sobbing niece on her back as they searched for relatives in a sea of people in eastern Congo

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Obama offers Eric Holder attorney general post, who says the United States must reverse "the disastrous course" set by the Bush administration

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 4:44 PM | Add Comment

Rwanda's Rose Kabuye in French custody, arrested due to suspected involvement in the assassination of Rwanda's former president, Juvenal Habyarimana, which set off the genocide in 1994

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2008 11:43 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Odi the bear enjoys splashing about for the first time after being freed from 10-year captivity in Romania; the brown bear was locked inside a rusty, cramped cage - hungry, confused and emaciated; now she is free and happy

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 11:32 PM | Add Comment

Obama planning US trials for Guantanamo detainees

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2008 4:02 AM | Add Comment

Casting information from Moses Brings Plenty: Need talent for film "The Lost Warrior" from Four Directions Talent ... check it out....

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2008 1:12 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Australia drops bid to take Iran to the International Court of Justice court over Israel comments

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2008 6:03 PM | Add Comment

ACORN controversy: Voter fraud or mudslinging? "By legal definition, to commit voter fraud means a person would have to present some kind of documentation at the polls (driver's license, etc.); submitting fake registration cards is another matter"

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2008 5:48 PM | Add Comment

Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers' lawsuit against God thrown out "over lack of address"

Posted by kluciole at 10/16/2008 11:11 AM | Add Comment

Draft security pact would give Iraq the right to prosecute American troops and Pentagon contractors accused of major, premeditated crimes committed outside U.S. bases and when they were not on duty

Posted by kluciole at 10/15/2008 9:37 AM | Add Comment

Alaska panel finds Palin abused power "in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain"

Posted by kluciole at 10/10/2008 9:14 PM | Add Comment

Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2008 10:24 PM | Add Comment

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband Todd defends his role as a close adviser to his wife, saying contacts with wife's staff were proper

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2008 9:21 PM | Add Comment

Jury finds O.J. Simpson guilty on all charges

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2008 10:14 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Judge refuses to block Alaska Troopergate probe

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2008 8:49 PM | Add Comment

Journalists blocked and threatening boycott after efforts to restrict access to Palin at the UN conference (such as the campaign trying to bar CNN from sending their reporter, but relenting when they said they would not send their cameras then)

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2008 10:04 AM | Add Comment

Writer Dominick Dunne left court, treated for pain

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 11:09 PM | Add Comment

Russian court finds 13 guilty of ethnic killings; the attacks were videotaped, set to heavy music and widely disseminated on Web sites

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2008 3:58 PM | Add Comment

Top 10 Controversial Court Cases

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2008 6:28 PM | Add Comment

Florida Medicaid recipients want out of nursing homes; they say the state is illegally forcing them to live in nursing homes "when they are healthy enough to live at home, with relatives, or in other less institutional settings"

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2008 1:44 AM | Add Comment

Italian comic and political satirist Sabina Guzzanti escapes prosecution for insulting pope; Rome prosecutor tired to press case under 1929 treaty between the Vatican and Mussolini, and the Justice Minister blocked it

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2008 7:10 PM | Add Comment

GOP lawmakers sue to stop bipartisan investigation into Palin's firing of public safety commissioner (Troopergate) even though the vice presidential candidate once said she welcomed the probe into allegations of abuse of power

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2008 11:49 AM | Add Comment

Poll: American public opposes increased presidential power "even to enhance national security or the economy"

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 11:46 PM | Add Comment

"The Church of England will tomorrow officially apologise to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding his theory of evolution"

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 12:35 AM | Add Comment

Alaska lawmakers vote to subpoena Todd Palin in "abuse of power investigation" against Sarah Palin

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2008 9:00 PM | Add Comment

China vows 'severe punishment' over tainted baby milk scandal

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2008 2:52 PM | Add Comment

Lawyer for Gov. Palin taking another stab at derailing Alaska Legislature's ethics investigation into the firing of her former public safety commissioner, saying investigator is 'biased'

Posted by kluciole at 9/10/2008 9:20 PM | Add Comment

Future bright for fortunetelling in Vt. town; St. Johnsbury has repealed 1966 ordinance against peering into the future

Posted by kluciole at 9/1/2008 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Beijing cancels sentence for elderly grandmothers Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2008 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Raccoon's courthouse crime spree at the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in downtown Atlanta ends with capture

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2008 11:51 AM | Add Comment

FBI: Couple offered to trade sex with daughter, 5, for used car, apartment, and child care for 10-month-old daughter (who they later intended to sell for sexual services)

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 11:06 PM | Add Comment

Handful of Americans have tried selling their votes on eBay (which is illegal)

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2008 11:56 PM | Add Comment

Kim Soo-im: South Korean woman hailed as vile international spy, "The Korean Seductress Who Betrayed America," and hastily shot by the South Koreans, emerges in records vindicated of accusations. Her executed lover, Lee Gang-kook, was an American agent

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2008 9:44 PM | Add Comment

Rwandan report says French political and military officials took part in 1994 genocide; "French forces directly assassinated Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis... French forces committed several rapes on Tutsi survivors"

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2008 9:31 PM | Add Comment

Grass-roots effort in Egypt fights 'cutting' girls; the passage of tough laws against female genital mutilation seems to be making some headway, but education still needed, "one woman, one family and one village at a time"

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2008 11:45 AM | Add Comment

House formally apologizes for slavery and Jim Crow

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2008 1:03 AM | Add Comment

Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, of Roe v. Wade, has died. Convicted 90 percent of defendants in his 36 years; 19 people have gone free due to new DNA evidence, and 250 more cases will be reviewed

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2008 1:33 PM | Add Comment

NYC police officer Wayne Taylor pleads guilty in teen prostitute case

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2008 1:28 AM | Add Comment

German probes overlooked Nazi massacre in France in village of Maille; youngest victim was 4 months old. Villagers thought the gunfire initially was celebratory on the day Paris was liberated in 1944; second worst atrocity in Nazi-occupied France

Posted by kluciole at 7/16/2008 1:31 AM | Add Comment

Cops fear California's Catalina Island is turning into a gangster paradise; residents say its not true

Posted by kluciole at 7/11/2008 6:20 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Text of Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy's letter to JonBenet Ramsey's father, John Ramsey, that clears the entire family of suspicion in her death

Posted by kluciole at 7/9/2008 8:51 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Myanmar cyclone victims, more than 80 women and children, have been saved from traffickers (many of whom posed as aid workers)

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2008 2:17 AM | Add Comment

An article about The Longest Walk 2008: "American-Indian group walks the US to press causes"

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2008 6:29 PM | Add Comment

Supreme Court rejects death penalty for raping children, in a 5-4 vote

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2008 9:48 AM | Add Comment

Mineola, Texas reels from horrific abuse in its midst; in a former day care center, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2008 7:34 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

1st black La. Supreme Court justice, Revius Ortique Jr., dies at 84

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2008 11:28 PM | Add Comment

Ohio school board votes to fire teacher who branded a cross on the arm of a student while preaching Christian beliefs

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2008 2:30 PM | Add Comment

Austria accused of shielding Nazi war criminal suspect: Milivoj Asner is ranked No. 4 on a leading list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2008 11:55 AM | Add Comment

NYC campaign shows dark side of counterfeit goods: One ad reads "When you buy counterfeit goods, you support child labor, drug trafficking, organized crime and even worse"

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2008 3:57 AM | Add Comment

Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case; Lori Drew allegedly helped create a MySpace account posing as a young boy who courted, then harassed 13-year-old Megan Meier, who hanged herself after receiving cruel messages

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 4:59 PM | Add Comment

Anonymous rape tests are going nationwide next year, so victims too afraid or ashamed to go to police can still gather evidence should they decide to press charges later. States will pay for these "Jane Doe rape kits"

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2008 6:07 PM | Add Comment

Widower seeks change in Mass. law after life insurance claim denied in young wife's death

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2008 3:45 PM | Add Comment

Plame seeks to resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2008 10:03 AM | Add Comment

Violin virtuoso Philippe Quint to play in airport in thanks to cab driver Mohamed Khalil, who returned his lost $4 million 285-year-old violin

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 4:42 AM | Add Comment

Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle, the "bionic beak"

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 1:30 AM | Add Comment

Report shows Australian Aborigines' health care is 'shameful'

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2008 12:48 AM | Add Comment

Female stars launch campaign to aid poor women, girls. Alliance has the backing of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Queen Noor of Jordan and former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2008 1:07 AM | Add Comment

FBI arrests suspect Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean in slaying of pregnant Marine who had accused him of rape, Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach

Posted by kluciole at 4/10/2008 7:36 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend, author Ellen R. Sheeley; to honor April 7th, the one year anniversary of the honor killing of Du'a Khalil Aswad: Sheeley's essay "A HEARTFELT APPEAL TO HIS MAJESTY KING ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN"

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2008 1:48 PM | Add Comment

World War Two Navajo code talkers honored

Posted by kluciole at 2/29/2008 3:14 AM | Add Comment

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched a global campaign to intensify efforts to end violence against women

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 4:09 AM | Add Comment

Teens accused of beating disabled 18-year-old woman with recent brain surgery in Ohio. Incredibly awful and sad. They should be tried as adults.

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2008 3:06 AM | Add Comment

The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon to investigate allegations that a two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2008 8:54 PM | Add Comment

Woman whose abuse was filmed sues ABC; footage shows Kyle Nelson, then 15, being held down, berated and punched by stepfather. Viewers sent thousands of emails asking why ABC News did not stop abuse

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2008 12:11 AM | Add Comment

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. apologized to a Muslim woman who said she was mocked because of her face veil. Cashier said, "Please don't stick me up."

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 11:54 PM | Add Comment

Cattle industry calls cow abuse incident isolated, Humane Society skeptical of reply after video results in huge beef recall. The rules for treatment of animals were passed in 1958

Posted by kluciole at 2/19/2008 2:48 AM | Add Comment

Supreme Court weighs 5 age bias cases, including older workers who recieve lower health benefits than other workers, and employees who become disabled but are barred from benefits

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2008 2:15 AM | Add Comment

Canada extradites Nazi to Italy: Michael Seifert, an 83-year-old former SS prison guard, was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for Nazi war crimes

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 7:13 PM | Add Comment

The Netherlands: Johannes Heesters, a 104-year-old singer who performed for Adolf Hitler, takes stage amidst fierce protest. Many of Heesters' critics focus on a visit his theater company made to Dachau in 1941

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2008 12:01 AM | Add Comment

Rape is weapon in Kenyan violence:victims as young as 2 years of age (you read that right, a toddler)

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2008 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Man who stole Salvation Army kettle of donations sentenced to spend one night homeless

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2008 12:11 AM | Add Comment

Study: False statements by President Bush and top officials preceded war

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2008 8:15 PM | Add Comment

Genocides. Never Again?

Posted by kluciole at 1/21/2008 1:08 PM | Add Comment

Ellen R. Sheeley, author of "Reclaiming Honor in Jordan": A National Public Opinion Survey on “Honor” Killings

Posted by kluciole at 1/18/2008 11:10 PM | Add Comment

Chris Matthews says: the reason Hillary Clinton is a senator and a candidate for president "is that her husband messed around."

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2008 9:50 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend Bridget Van Loon. Jackson Katz's article: "Dennis Kucinich endorses Hustler."

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2008 4:48 PM | View Comments (28) | Add Comment

I have been there too. Glenn Beck turns awful surgery/hospital experience into "crusade against health care practitioners who don't care"

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2008 1:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

What do families in different areas get for one week's food budget? What is that budget?

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2008 2:55 PM | Add Comment

Actors offer readings at V-day, Eve Ensler's global effort to end violence against women and girls

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2008 9:35 AM | Add Comment

Pregnant Marine missing from base found dead; had accused supervisor of sexual assault

Posted by kluciole at 1/11/2008 11:26 AM | Add Comment

Abu Ghraib officer cleared; conviction thrown out

Posted by kluciole at 1/10/2008 8:34 PM | Add Comment

Newly published diary of "France's Anne Frank;" Helene Berr was a "luminous" advanced student of English at the Sorbonne

Posted by kluciole at 1/10/2008 5:18 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

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