A trial judge has dismissed assault charges filed against US Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair by a former lover as part of a plea deal, but said choice words against the defendant for his adulterous affair, Reuters said.
An amicus brief by the ACLU of Illinois argued that the audiorecording law used by the Illinois Supreme Court to prosecute DeForest Clark for recording his child custody hearing and a private conversation was in danger of prosecuting innocent people in the future.
A report on Businessweek said the National Rifle Association and its allies are pulling all the stops to ensure that Dr Vivek Murthy's nomination as the Surgeon General for the United States will not push through.
Judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi found Mohammed Salim Ansari, Siraj Rehmat Khan, Vijay Mohan Jadhav and Mohammed Kasim guilty of raping a 22 year-old photographer of exacting violence and abuse while gang-raping her in Mumbai last year, The News International said.
