CRIMINAL LAW

Serbia may send Ratko Mladic to face genocide charges in The Hague within four days, a justice official said on Monday, after the Bosnian Serb wartime general’s son said he appeared frail after 16 years of run.

Casey Anthony trial rolled onto Saturday with Casey's mother Cindy breaking down into tears as she described a playhouse she had built for her granddaughter Caylee even as the prosecutors introduced as evidence the text messages that Casey had sent to her ex-boyfriend Anthony Lazzaro on the day Caylee was reported missing.

A court in Serbia has determined that Ratko Mladic, the former army commander accused of committing war crimes and genocide during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s, is fit to be extradited and stand trial in The Hague.

Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic, the last of the three men accused of instigating the ethnic cleansing during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, was arrested on Thursday.

Upon the capture of Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladi?, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said: “it's a very courageous decision of the Serbian president. It is a step toward integration of Serbia into the European Union someday soon.”

The arrest of Serbian war criminal fugitive Ratko Mladic has been hailed by leading political figures in Europe and the U.S.

In what is being billed as one of the biggest prison release orders in history, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered California government to reduce its prison population by nearly 33,000 over a period of two years to avoid serious constitutional violations.

According to reports in the French website Atlantico.fr, DNA samples taken in the sexual assault charge confirmed traces of his sperm on a dress worn by the hotel chambermaid who was allegedly raped by the former boss of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

There are two carved-in-granite long-term economic trends; one of them being the decline of the dollar and the other one being war. I think those are locked in, and so I recommend people buy investments that do well during wartime or during periods of currency debasement, which we have.

A former U.S. probation officer, Mark John Walker, 52, of Eugene, Ore., has pleaded guilty to charges related to his engaging in sexual contact or aggravated sexual abuse with female offenders who were under his direct supervision as a federal probation officer from 2006 to 2009. Sentencing is scheduled for July 18, 2011 before Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, who is a visiting judge from Alaska.

A woman who accused American Apparel Inc Chief Executive Dov Charney of keeping her as a teenage sex slave is now suing him and his clothing retailer for defamation and invasion of privacy.

Actress Lindsay Lohan's chances of a return to her movie career, already in dire straits, took another step backward on Friday after a judge's ruling.

A hacker has pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and aggravated identity theft; which resulted in losses of $36 million.

Two prominent Croatian military leaders have been convicted of committing war crimes against Serbs during the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, following a trial at The Hague, Netherlands.

2010 was another deadly year in Pakistan, and this year is likely to be worse, according to a report from the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), the country’s principal human rights watchdog.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Wednesday that he was 100 percent certain members of the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will face charges of crimes against humanity.

The 24-year-old actress turned down a plea deal that included jail time and chose to move forward with a trial in her felony grand theft case, People.com confirmed.

People.com is reporting that the prosecutor responsible for prosecuting Paris Hilton and Bruno Mars on separate drug charges was arrested and booked into jail on drug charges of his own.

Lindsay Lohan was back in court today as she rejected a plea agreement offered by prosecutors in a grand theft case. The plea would have guaranteed Lohan's return to jail.

Governor Pat Quinn’s Statement on Abolishing Death Penalty.

The governor of Illinois has signed a law that will ban the death penalty in the state, making it the sixteenth U.S. state to prohibit the ultimate punishment.