Kentucky Considers Changes To Drug Courts For Heroin Addicts
WASHINGTON — The Kentucky court system is reconsidering how its drug courts treat defendants thanks to a new federal policy that is pushing them to offer medications to opiate addicts….
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Don’t rely on insanity defense
Two major trials kicking off 2015 feature defendants invoking the insanity defense. For many, this adds to the myth that insanity is commonly used and frequently successful. But in fact,…
Egyptian court sentences 183 to death
The defendants had been convicted of murdering 11 police officers and two civilians in the district of Kerdasa last August. That attack followed a crackdown by security forces on supporters…
Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to be retried on embezzlement case
Mubarak, his sons Gamal and Alaa, and four new defendants are accused of embezzling $17.9 million allocated for the renovation of presidential palaces. – In November, he was cleared of…