In March an American soldier was charged with 16 counts of murder, including of nine children, after allegedly going on a shooting rampage in two villages.The International Criminal Court handed down its first-ever verdict and sentenced Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese warlord, to 14 years in prison.
Travis Vader has been found guilty of second degree murder in the death of a senior Alberta couple, who vanished just days after starting on a road trip to BC, in the first ever legal verdict to be televised in Canada.
The verdict is the first ever delivered by the ICC, the world's only permanent, independent war crimes tribunal, since its establishment in 2002.
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The verdict was issued in the UN court's first ever retrial, which was ordered after appeals judges overturned the 2008 acquittals of Mr Haradinaj because of alleged serious intimidation of prosecution witnesses.
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In a strikingly similar case, also brought by the A.C.L.U., a jury awarded a former Maryland state trooper, Kevin Knussman, $375,000 in February 1999 for the first-ever sex-discrimination verdict in conjunction with the 1993 federal family leave law.
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