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...Thursday, however, Kenya's leaders could no longer avoid dealing with the situation: the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced he will open a formal investigation into the post-election violence, saying there is sufficient evidence to suggest that those behind the bloodshed committed crimes against humanity. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he hopes the investigation could begin in December. Those suspected of orchestrating the attacks that the Kikuyu and Luo tribes launched on one another could be arrested and transferred to the ICC in The Hague to stand trial. (See pictures of the crisis in Kenya after...
...President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga stood by Moreno-Ocampo's side, watching silently as it took an outsider to finally start the justice process moving. If the two leaders had acknowledged the truth - that Kenya is too politically paralyzed to handle an investigation - and asked the prosecutor to take over from the beginning, Moreno-Ocampo could have begun his work immediately. Instead, they've resorted to stall tactics and made uninspired offers of cooperation since the ICC said it would get involved. "We are ready to work with his court so that...
...prosecutor knowingly introduces false evidence at trial, that prosecutor is absolutely immune from lawsuit," explains Stephen Sanders, an attorney representing Richter and Hrvol. The rationale is that if prosecutors could be blamed for errors in a trial, they would become vulnerable targets for any litigious convict with an ax to grind...
...This means that some people who are genuinely wronged by a prosecutor [are not] able to recover," Sanders concedes. "But better that, the court says, than have prosecutors plagued by endless nuisance litigation or have them make decisions about whether or not to bring someone to trial based on whether they think they're going to get sued...
...Interned on Capitol Hill with the House Republican Policy Committee while attending law school. After graduating in 1989, began work as a prosecutor in Virginia Beach...