COURTHOUSE RECORDS.
COLUMN: COURTHOUSE RECORDS Worcester Superior Court Judge John S. McCann Calixtro Cruz, 41, of 48 Freeland St., Worcester, was sentenced to two to four years in Walpole State Prison after pleading guilty to distribution of heroin. The charge was amended from distribution of...

Justices asked to act on 'error' in Erap ouster.
"Decisions made by the High Court are made by men and women who are not infallible, and judicial errors may be committed now and then, but it takes wisdom, courage, and humility for the justices to admit their mistakes," former President Estrada's spokesman, former Maguindanao Rep. Didagen Dilangalen said...

Say "no" to waivers.
As someone who has been jailed for contempt of court for refusing to cough up sources, albeit for only five days, I must agree with Bob Zelnick's take in your story ("Waivering," February/March), "a request for a waiver [is] 'a functional betrayal of the source and the relationship, and...

Most jail inmate waiting in remand, justice ministers concerned.
Whitehorse -- Federal, provincial and territorial Ministers responsible for Justice Ministers expressed concern over statistics showing that fully half of the incarcerated population in Canada is remanded pending trial. Discussion focussed on factors within each component of the justice system that may be contributing to this increase....

Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin.
Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin, by Benjamin Carter Hett. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. ix, 291 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). In this excellent study, Benjamin Canner Hett traces the history of German criminal law from the late nineteenth through...

Not a deterrent to criminality; Death penalty.
Byline: Atty. PERSIDA V. RUEDA-ACOSTA HIS Excellency Jan de Kok, Commissioners Wilhelm Soriano and Eligio Mallari, Honorable Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Fellow Speakers, Delegates and Participants, good morning. When I received the invitation to be a part of this dialogue, I was reminded of...

Around The Nation.
Appeal filed to stop another NPC election Five members of the National Press Club, led by holdover president Antonio Antonio, yesterday filed with the Court of Appeals a petition for review with preliminary injunction and/or restraining order against a recent decision of the Manila regional trial court...

Illinois death penalty reform: how it happened, what it promises.
In January of 2003, three years after Governor George H. Ryan declared a moratorium on executions and ten months after he exercised his clemency and pardon power to empty the nation's eighth largest death row, (1) the Illinois General Assembly completed what the Chicago Tribune called an "historic reform...

Jury selection errors on appeal.
I. INTRODUCTION Claims that errors were made during jury selection are among the most common of all grounds for criminal appeals. (1) Yet appellate courts, both state and federal, seem profoundly confused about how to analyze these kinds of errors. The confusion has its roots in a...

Women are also the future: women directors in recent Spanish cinema.
Prior to the 1980s there had been, in the history of Spanish cinema, only a few women directors, such as Rosario Pi (1899-1967), Ana Mariscal (1921-1995), or Margarita Aleixandre (1923). The 1980s saw the rise of a first important nucleus of women directors, led by Pilar Miro and Josefina...