Legal procedure

A jury did not reach a verdict in its first day of deliberations on Dec. 20 in the trial of a Turkish banker accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions and launder billions of dollars in oil revenue.

Lawyers for a Turkish banker on trial in New York on charges that he helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions asked a judge on Dec. 13 to declare a mistrial, saying testimony by a former Turkish police investigator should not have been allowed in court.

A former Turkish police investigator on Dec. 11 told jurors in the trial of a Turkish bank executive charged with evading U.S. sanctions on Iran that he found shoeboxes full of cash in the home of another high-ranking Turkish banker.

Hundreds of supporters gathered outside a courthouse in Iraklio, Crete on Friday at the beginning of the trial of self-proclaimed trillionaire Artemis Sorras and eight others on charges of distributing false information and incitement.

The catwalk has met the auctioneer’s gavel and gone online.

Federal Judge Richard Berman announced after sending jurors home Dec. 1 that one juror would be trimmed from the panel for sleeping through testimony in the New York courtroom.

Some 27 High Criminal Court Head Judges in Istanbul issued a formal complaint against the newly established Intermediate Courts of Appeal (BAM) in 2016, arguing that the courts “may compromise judicial credibility,” Doğan News Agency has reported.

Miroslav Miskovic was on Wednesday acquitted on charges of financial abuses involving road maintenance companies.

The final verdict passed by the Court of Appeals in Belgrade also ordered that he face retrial on charges of tax evasion.

Serbia’s Humanitarian Law Centre accused two hospitals operated by the army of delaying war crime trials by certifying that the defendants cannot attend hearings because of health concerns.

Not everyone is cut out for a life of fighting crime. Take Gavel, a German shepherd who flunked out of a police dog academy in Australia because he “did not display the necessary aptitude for a life on the front line,” according to the BBC.
Apparently Gavel was too friendly, and preferred cuddles to tackles.