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Most of Asia's common law jurisdictions (countries such as Singapore, Pakistan and Malaysia) have also abolished jury trials, ...
Here is how a trial could work without a jury. An option could be to give Magistrates Courts the powers to hand custodial sentences of more than one year, as is the current limit.
After an intense two-month trial, American rap star and music mogul Sean Diddy Combs heaved a sigh of relief after he was ...
A French senator accused of having drugged a parliamentary deputy with the intention of sexually assaulting her has been sent for trial, AFP learnt on Friday from a source close to the case.
In December, a French court sentenced Pelicot's former husband Dominique to 20 years in prison, a verdict that also made headlines in Austria. So did the sentences handed down to 50 co-defendants, all ...
When Caroline Darian learned what her father Dominique Pelicot had done, to her and her mother, one part of her life ended. In her first memoir, she describes her trauma and her determination to ...
The daughter of convicted French rapist Dominique Pelicot said Thursday she had filed a complaint against her father accusing him of sexual abuse, after he was jailed for repeatedly sedating and ...
Dominique Pelicot's lawyer says he wants to spare Gisèle Pelicot the painful ordeal of another trial.
Dominique Pelicot won’t appeal conviction in ex-wife’s rape trial in France The Frenchman was jailed for 20 years for drugging and raping his then-wife and soliciting dozens of men to do the same.
And men like Dominique Pelicot and his co-defendants, who are not monsters but something far more frightening – ordinary men, and products of a society where sexual violence still flourishes.
The security guard who caught Dominique Pelicot upskirting women at a supermarket, which led to the discovery of his heinous crimes, has recalled the “terror” and “fear” in his eyes ...
Dominique Pelicot will suffer behind bars and may not survive his 20-year sentence, crime experts tell The Mirror. Following a landmark trial in France, Pelicot has been convicted of drugging and ...