Law and Crime

Anna Nicole Smith died of a casual drug overdose with no signs of criminal action, according to the Seminole Police and the Broward County Medical Examiner. Although nine different prescription drugs were found in her system, all were at therapeutic levels.
According to police chief Charlie Tiger, no criminal charges will be archived in the death of Smith. Her death was the result of a dramatic overdose of a sleeping medication, chloral hydrate, in combination with other drugs and her weakened state because of an infection.
This information seems rather strange and contradictory, as the first autopsy report, released the day after her death, found no evidence of large amounts of medication. The medical examiner said prescription drugs, but no illegal drugs, were found in Smith’s hotel room. He did not, however, name those drugs at the time.

The Russian Prosecutor’s Office has brought into court matter concerning the anesthesiologist - expert in resuscitation of the Krasnodar Specialized clinical infectious hospital Vladimir Pilipenko and the nurse of the same hospital Elena Senicheva, as was informed on the site of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office.
Investigators believe that actions of the accused became the direct reason of brachiotomy of two-months baby Sofia Kulivets delivered to the hospital with the diagnosis “whooping cough “.
Investigation set that on December, 30, 2006 Sofia Kulivets had been delivered to the infectious hospital with whooping cough. At attempt to establish catheter to inject a medicine the nurse, over the supervision of the doctor, has wrongly entered a needle in the right cubital artery, which results in therefore thrombosis. As the subsequent treatment appeared inefficient in a week time doctors have made the decision about amputation.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, medicolegal report proved the direct causal effect.

An attempt at vice-premier of Iraq and politician Salam Zubaii is perpetrated in Baghdad. Vice-premier has received missile wounds in a stomach and a shoulder. According to the last information, the life of the politician is out of danger for the time being.
According to the Iraq policemen, the terrorist has blown up a bomb at the moment when Zubaii has left a mosque after a Friday pray and went home.
Some sources inform that there had been made one more explosion - this time the bomb has been put in the automobile.
As the result three persons were killed and 10 were wounded. Vice-premier has received missile wounds in a stomach and a shoulder, informed close to the politician people.
Zubaii has been conveyed to the American military hospital. It is informed, that the wounds received by the vice-premier pose no hazard to life.
The prime minister of Iraq has visited hospital.
” He is wounded, but not seriously “, has told prime-minister after visiting hospital in a green zone of Baghdad.

In New York post offices you may see posters with photos of 14 “wanted” criminals. All of them are former Soviet Union residents. What are they accused of?
They are mainly drug addicts, who got money for drugs in different ways, more often by stealing social security checks from the mail boxes. Meanwhile letter boxes are the property of the federal post service. And any theft from a box or breaking of the lock is qualified as a crime.
State post inspection service is engaged in searches of such criminals. Above mentioned criminals have already committed post thefts earlier, mainly in Brooklyn. Having served their sentences, they went at large and again have committed a crime and now are wanted.
They basically rob their fellow countrymen. As a rule, they introduce themselves as post couriers, messengers, those who do not carry a uniform, but are connected with the letters delivery. Immigrants with poor English knowledge and pensioners more often become victims of these crimes. Recently the “theft of the personality” became a real disaster.

Among post crimes the law places attacks on post workers, distribution of explosives (so-called post bombs). Distribution of the Siberian ulcer spores or the white powder which is set up for spores of the Siberian ulcer. Letters with threats of a life, health, reputation of the person. Distribution of a children’s pornography by mail, including electronic. Distribution of drugs. Stamp and moneyorder forgery. As a post crime considers also opening, interception and destruction of someone else’s letters. Blackmail, use or sale of stolen or counterfeit credit cards, hacking (computer codes breaking), use of computer communication for money extortion by mail, or for robbery, pretending to be other person when sending commercial messages by e-mail are also prosecuted by the law.
Post inspection is responsible for consumers’ protection against the counterfeit and distribution of lottery tickets, distributions by means of the mail so-called pyramids… Even an unauthorized putting of the handouts in the letter box is considered a criminal crime.

A doctor and a nurse of hospital on the south-west of France stood before trial on charge of murder of patient, dying from the cancer of pancreas. Physicians who confessed the fact may be convicted up to 30 years of imprisonment. 34-years-old doctor Laurens Tramua and 40-years-old nurse Shantal’ Shanel’ killed 65-years-old Paulett Dryue with the lethal injection of potassium chloride. According to physicians, in their actions they followed an attempt to “save the patient’s dignity”. The relatives of dying woman fully supported the actions of doctors. In addition, Laurens Tramua is the sister of daughter-in-law of the late. According to the law accepted in 2005, French doctors are allowed not to support the life of patients in fatal cases if relatives insist hereon, however active euthanasia still considered to be a criminal crime in France.
According to the French laws, Tramua and Shanel’ may be imprisoned up to 30 years. More than 2000 French physicians signed the petition in support of defendant with the requirement to change a law on prohibition of active euthanasia.

The richest man in Italy may be convicted for 12 years.
Former prime minister of Italy Sil’vio Berluskoni and his former lawyer David Mills from Great Britain faced trial in Milan.
The richest man in Italy, possessing 11 milliards dollars, was accused of giving a bribe of 600 thousand dollars to the lawyer at the end of 90th, so that Mills gave false evidence in his benefit in two other trials. If guilt will be proved, each of them can get up to 12 years of imprisonment.
In addition, the present leader of Italian opposition is accused of money laundering through off-shore companies in the period from 1994 to 1999. The next hearing is appointed on March, 22.
Both 70-years-old Berluskoni and 62-years-old Mills deny their guilt. Their lawyer Nikolo Gedini stated in interview with journalists that there is nothing to be afraid of for his clients. “Prosecution has no evidence. It is a just another attempt of political pressure on mister Berluskoni. The only problem for him will be waste of time in a court. This time he would better use with benefit both for the country and for himself”, - underlined Gedini.

Microsoft executives consider that the piracy to some extent promotes the increase of sales volumes of the licensed copies of software products, reported on a site The Register. “If pirates are going to steal, let they better steal our products”, - the president of business-group Microsoft Jeff Ryks declared. Ryks is sure that a person, using the illegal copy of software, early or late get used to it, and the next time he will prefer to purchase the licensed copy and become the registered user. In spite of the fact that Microsoft is not going to halt a fight against piracy, the corporation will not toughen penalty in relation to the users of pirate products. This decision Ryks explained in such a way, that superfluous pressure on users will force them not to buy Microsoft licensed programs, but search a free alternative to it software.

Autopsy of the delivered to the Ukraine body showed, that the heart and kidneys were excised by surgery. According to the Ukrainian physicians, organs were cut out, when a victim was alive. “There are no other damages of internal organs which would result in death” - was written in Ukrainian medicolegal report.
According to the wife of lost, Irene, doubts were raised by two dates of death and two different diagnosis in documents: a heart attack and a trauma at falling from scaffold.
“The doubt was strengthened by the obvious unwillingness of the Spanish authorities to return a body and suggestion to cremate him at the expense of medical institution”, - widow tells.
Owing to the persistence of relatives, the body was returned to Ukraine, where the second autopsy was held. Relatives suspect, that Vladimir had fallen a prey to trade in human organs. Lawyer Aram Chliyants also supposes, that organs were cut out for transplantation. In MFA reported that the Ukrainian embassy in collaboration with law enforcement authorities of Spain studied grounds of the issue.

Four chemists, workings as inspectors on a factory which produced Able Laboratories medications in New Jersey, plead guilty in falsification of tests results in order to make them meet Food and Drug Administration requirements. In addition, one of the defendant, 65-years-old Shashikant Shah, plead guilty in fraud with securities. For that time, when company falsified the results of tests, he earned $909000 from the sale of shares.
In the court Shah and another defendant, 56-years-old Jyotin Parikh, reported that they worked under instructions of  the chief administrator Dhananjay Wadekar. Robert Kirsch, US Chief prosecutor assistant, reported that Parikh and Shah confessed their participation in a secret project which was managed by a main administrator of Able Laboratories. Able Laboratories produces such popular medications, as Percocet, Aleve, Naprosyn and other medicines. As reported the lawyer of accused, all acknowledged the seriousness of their actions and began to co-operate with investigation.