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...association, personally cross-examined Galster, alleging that the American conservationist had staged videos and faked photos of dying sharks. To TIME, he also claimed that Galster must have doctored the samples he sent to the lab to test for mercury (all of which Galster denies). Later, outside the courtroom, Lau seethed: "Foreigners shouldn't be allowed to come to Thailand and say anything they want. This is our culture, and you can't change...
...retrials for those convicted in absentia. Many in Haiti fear that there won't be a proper hearing. The house of the prosecutor in Chamblain's original trial was recently burned down, and the judge in the case was severely beaten. "He won't have much resistance in the courtroom," says Brian Concannon, a U.S. lawyer who aided the 1995 prosecution of Chamblain. Can Haiti resist a return to the kind of right-wing regime that encouraged atrocities like Raboteau in the first place? Two months after the arrival of some 3,500 international peacekeeping troops - who are scheduled...
...streak is interrupted, of course, when she meets Brosnan’s rumpled Rafferty, who also is coasting along undefeated. The prospect of losing makes her nervous. So nervous in fact that she devours a Sno-ball in the courtroom bathroom, a scene which the post-screening crowd in the ladies room decided was the most realistic in the whole movie. (Consensus was also reached on the “adorability” of Brosnan). Audrey continues to nosh her way through every emotionally distressing moment in the movie, at one point running away from Daniel down a city block...
...justice system have long had an unhappy relationship. Aborigines, or Kooris as they're called in Victoria, are the most over-represented racial group in the state's jails: 12 times more likely than other Victorians to be in prison. But Toby has just come out of Courtroom Four in the outer-Melbourne Broadmeadows Magistrates Court, where a radical new approach to curbing indigenous crime is under way. Here, every two weeks conventional hearings are replaced by the Koori Court, which brings the law and indigenous people together in an informal setting and, the court says, "tailors sentencing orders...
Mathews was in a joking mood minutes before the trial began, offering moisturizer to strangers in the courtroom. “It’s cruelty-free,” he said of the cream. Mathews and most of the other defendants smiled throughout the hearing...