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Arkansas Supreme Court Decision Allows New DNA Testing in Case of the ​“West Memphis Three,” Convicted of Killing Three Children in 1993

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On April 18, 2024, the Arkansas Supreme Court decided 4-3 to reverse a 2022 lower court decision and allow genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the 1993 killing of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis. The three men convicted in 1994 for the killings were released in 2011 after taking an Alford plea, in which they maintained their innocence but plead guilty to the crime, in exchange for 18 years’ time served and 10 years of a suspended sentence. 

Court in Vietnam starts 2nd embezzlement trial of executive

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The embezzlement trial began Wednesday for a former executive at Vietnam's state oil giant who Germany said was kidnapped from there by Vietnamese agents last year.

Trinh Xuan Thanh was the former chairman of state energy giant PetroVietnam's construction arm and is accused of embezzling $622,000 (68 million yen) from a property project, the official Vietnam News Agency quoted the indictment as saying. The offense carries the death penalty.

He is among eight defendants all accused of embezzlement in the trial expected to last two weeks. Foreign media were not given access to the trial.

Thanh, 51, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for embezzlement involving a thermo power plant in the country's highest profile case during an ongoing corruption crackdown.

Among 22 defendants convicted in the case that concluded on Monday was former high-ranking government member Dinh La Thang, a former chairman of PetroVietnam. Thang was the 1st former Politburo member to face prosecution in decades and received a 13-year prison sentence for economic mismanagement.

Germany has said Vietnamese intelligence services abducted Thanh from a Berlin park in July in what it called "an unprecedented and flagrant violation of German and international law." He had sought asylum in Germany.

Vietnam denied the abduction allegation and says Thanh returned voluntarily.

The defendants in the latest case include Dinh Manh Thang, a former chairman of a construction company and the brother of Dinh La Thang.

The ruling Communist Party under the watch of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong who was re-elected to another 5-year term in 2016, has stepped up its anti-corruption campaign with PetroVietnam and the banking sector at its center.

Scores of current or former senior PetroVietnam executives and bankers have been put on trial for economic crimes.

A trial of 46 defendants, most of them bankers and businessmen, is underway in southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam ranked 113th out of 176 countries in Transparency International's 2016 corruption index.

Source: Associated Press, January 24, 2018


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