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...course. Turkish-Cypriot police, in the north of the island, arrested the occupants of an unregistered car matching the description of a vehicle at the crime scene. But when prosecutors asked for other evidence to be handed over, Greek-Cypriot authorities in the south refused, demanding that the trial be held on their turf. United Nations mediators tried but failed to break the deadlock, and the suspects were soon released from custody and remain at large in northern Cyprus and Turkey. "It's a sad story," the Greek Cypriot Attorney General Petros Clerides told Time. Sad - and typical...
...sentenced to four years and three months in prison for property destruction and public disturbance; after an appeals court ruled that his August conviction was marred by procedural violations, including the barring of his lawyers from the courtroom; in Linyi, China. Although the outcome of a future trial is still in doubt, Chen's supporters considered the ruling a rare victory. Said his lawyer, Li Jingsong, "At this stage, we could not have hoped for a better result...
...sentence for ordering the execution of a judge; in Jakarta. Tommy, a multimillionaire playboy who enjoyed a lavish lifestyle under the patronage of his powerful father, was convicted in 2002 of hiring two hit men to kill judge Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, who had ruled against him in a 2000 graft trial. His early release for good behavior, while the men who carried out the hit are still serving life terms, has prompted criticism that Indonesia's wealthy still benefit from special treatment under the country's justice system...
...AUDIO: Despite his death sentence, Saddam is still on trial for genocide. TIME's Mark Kukis spends time in court and hears accounts by gas attack victims
...This isn't how the trial of Saddam Hussein was meant to turn out in the imagination of U.S. officials back in the winter of 2003, when he was found in that Tikrit spider-hole. J. Paul Bremer, the American administrator of Iraq, had hoped seeing Saddam on the dock would allow Iraqis to exorcise the demons he had unleashed upon them during his long reign. More recently, as the country descended into a sectarian war, some U.S. and Iraqi officials clung to the hope that the trial would remind Shi'ites and Sunnis how they had once been unified...