Word: retrial
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...Hong Kong's notorious "milk-shake murder" case may have seemed cogent, but last week Hong Kong's top court disagreed. The court granted Kissel her second and final appeal, ordering a retrial and creating the possibility that Hong Kong's murder trial of the decade will be replayed in court. "Mrs. Kissel killed Mr. Kissel. That much is not in dispute," the Court of Final Appeal wrote in a unanimous decision. "But was the killing certainly murder or might it have been in self-defense...
...legal team representing Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student who lost the second-ever jury trial on file-sharing, filed a motion on Monday requesting a retrial...
Tenenbaum will appeal if the motion for a retrial is denied and has already requested in the motion that the damages be reduced to the minimum amount—$750 per song, for a total of $22,500—if the court does not grant him a new trial, according to Nesson...
...saying the purpose of the subpoena is to ensure that students did not approach the case with a bias and that grades in the class weren't tied to the results of the investigation. Kirk said this could undermine the information's legitimacy in the event of a retrial. Lavine calls the notion "insulting." "The prosecutor's job is not to cast stones against the work the students did," Lavine says. "It's their job to go see the same witnesses, using the students' information, and verify it themselves...
...bribe-seeking officials and the nation's abysmal public services. Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist famous for her dispatches from Chechnya, was one of the paper's star reporters before being shot to death in 2006, presumably for writing the wrong story. (Read: "A Russian Reporter's Murder: Will a Retrial Bring Justice...