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Pill mixup led to Kennedy "drugged driving" trial: defense

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WHITE PLAINS, New York Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:13pm EST

Kerry Kennedy, (2nd L) daughter of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy and ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, exits the Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains, New York, next to her mother, Ethel Kennedy (bottom), and her brother, Douglas Harriman Kennedy (C), February 24, 2014.

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WHITE PLAINS, New York (Reuters) – A Kennedy family member’s groggy behavior during her 2012 arrest for sideswiping a tractor trailer in New York was not the result of a criminal act but mistakenly taking a sleeping pill instead of her usual thyroid medication, her lawyers argued at her trial Monday.

Kerry Kennedy, 54, daughter of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving while impaired.

“This case is about a mistake, plain and simple,” defense attorney Gerald Lefcourt said in his opening statement in Westchester County Court in White Plains, about 35 miles north of New York City.

Lefcourt said it was a regrettable medication mixup that led to Kennedy’s arrest for erratically driving her silver Lexus on Interstate 684 near North Castle in Westchester County the morning of July 13, 2012.

Kennedy, who wore a grey dress and jacket and black-rimmed glasses in court, is expected to be on trial for about a week.

Her mother, Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Kennedy, was also in the courtroom as Lefcourt described Kennedy as a devout Catholic and a devoted humanitarian and mother who would never willfully drive while impaired.

“If she would have realized her mistake and known she was not in the right condition to drive her car that day, she would never have continued on the road,” he told the jury.

Kennedy, who is also the niece of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, “is not seeking any advantage here because of her famous family,” Lefcourt said. “On the other hand, she should not be punished because of it.”

A jury trial is unusual for a relatively minor unclassified misdemeanor. If convicted, Kennedy could face up to a year in prison, but with no prior criminal record, it is unlikely she would serve any time behind bars, court officials said.

A toxicology report taken after Kennedy’s arrest showed she had the drug zolpidem, which is sold under the brand name Ambien, in her system. The drug is a slow acting medication to induce sleep and overcome insomnia.

Prosecutors said Kennedy continued to drive her car after realizing she was impaired, endangering herself and other drivers, before running off the road and passing out behind the wheel.

Nobody was injured during the incident.

“It was an ominous and regrettable day for this defendant Kerry Kennedy,” said Assistant District Attorney Stefanie DeNise during opening statements. “Still she continued to operate her car in an unsafe manner.”

Kennedy drove about five miles while swerving into other lanes of traffic, the grassy median and eventually a tractor trailer, prosecutors told the jury.

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Grant McCool)

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Patrick L Young is expert in global financial markets working in multiple disciplines, ranging from trading independently to running exchanges.

Published time: December 25, 2013 14:41

The world’s youngest nation state is on the verge of civil war. Few may have heard of the landlocked nation but its oil industry means any conflict impacts the world economy.

Barely two years after Sudan was partitioned to ease ethnic tensions on July 9th, 2011, now too the breakaway South Sudan is on the cusp of being ripped asunder by clashes between the Dinka and Nuar ethnic groups. Largely obscured by Christmas festivities elsewhere, the land-locked nation is not just a scene of massacres and an airlift of foreigners by respective governments; it generates global economic concern too.

Just as South Sudan is not much discussed beyond East Africa, so too the northern state of Unity is almost unheard of, yet it is the home to more than 95% of South Sudan’s economy, some 250,000 barrels of oil per day. The full travails of Sudan, which has enjoyed barely 10 years without conflict since it won independence from Egypt in 1956 are, rightly, much discussed elsewhere. However, the impact on the oil industry is now akin to an old English maxim about resources. “For want of a nail the shoe was lost…” begins a traditional rhyme where a steady stream of small failures, easily visible with hindsight that results in the loss of a battle as the cavaliers, bereft of horses with shoes, end up defeated on a grand scale.

Oil prices have reacted unfavorably to a series of worrisome drips in supply. In the aftermath of upheaval, Libyan oil production remains patchy. Meanwhile, Syria is rather wrapped up in its own civil war, and now too South Sudan is having a fundamental internal crisis which may lead the infant state into a full-blown conflict. Out of roughly 85,000,000 barrels produced daily world-wide, the total immediately at risk is sub 2% of current supply. However consider a few other ongoing production concerns – e.g. broader Middle Eastern stability issues – and the picture becomes cloudier.

The Unity fields are a microcosm of global oil, with America’s Chevron and the Chinese National Petroleum Company heavily invested in South Sudan. Governments ignore at their peril security of energy supply. North America has liberally embraced shale technology and hence rebalanced its hydrocarbon needs – although ironically it too has niggling problems as a longstanding lack of investment has created bottlenecks in US infrastructure for refining and supply. These problems are being addressed, albeit slower than shale is being commercialized, leading to further price volatility.

Meanwhile, the European Parliament, under green NGO influence, is increasingly trying to turn its back on shale despite efforts by nations such as Poland and the UK to forge ahead. Even then man cannot heat by shale alone and the core energy security issue which arises around various hotbeds of potential conflict, often infused with a fundamentalist Islamic undercurrent (Middle East, Sudan etc.) suggests oil prices could remain elevated for some time to come.

That’s bad news for the world economy as higher energy prices always impact consumption. With a Chinese credit crunch looming in the background, there is a severe danger the world could tip back towards recession, all because the nail, shoe and horse became lost, beginning in Libya, Syria and Sudan.

Which leads us back to just where energy can be obtained with less angst… Given the stability of the Russian Federation, one wonders just how long the EU can haughtily demand enforcement of its regulations on pipelines like South Stream when Russia’s gas will flow under the Black Sea to Western Europe via Serbia to provide a steady supply of energy avoiding not merely the Middle East but even potentially volatile nations like South Sudan or Ukraine?

The terrible suffering of the people of South Sudan is a microcosm of the world’s ongoing energy security dilemma.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

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Eliane Coates — Buddhist Monks In Myanmar: Driving Religious Intolerance And Hindering Reform

by ELAINE COATES for EURASIA REVIEW on DECEMBER 3, 2013: 

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TWO HUNDRED Buddhist monks took to the streets of Yangon on 12 November 2013 to protest the visit of a high-level delegation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The delegation, comprising the OIC Secretary-General and senior ministers of seven member states – Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Djibouti and Egypt – were met by demonstrations against the world’s largest Islamic bloc. Echoing those of 2012, the demonstrations were led by Buddhist monks demanding that the OIC not get involved in Myanmar’s internal affairs.

The delegation, which was to review the situation of Muslims in Myanmar, came almost 18 months after violence broke out in the western Rakhine state between Muslim Rohingya and Buddhists in June 2012, which developed into widespread clashes all over Myanmar, resulting in the death of 240 persons and the displacement of 240,000 people – the majority being Rohingya Muslims.

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Is the Fed driving people to drink?
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It’s conventional wisdom that quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve is propping up stock prices, a “sugar high” as Mike Johanns, Warren Buffett’s senator, claimed as he questioned Janet Yellen yesterday.

Consider: Since the Fed began its second round of QE in November 2010, the Fed’s balance sheet has risen by 69% to $ 3.86 trillion. Meanwhile, the S&P500 index is up by 600 points, or 50%. The correlation between QE and stock prices is an impressive 0.94.

It surely follows that when the Fed begins to taper, the stock market will stall. And when the Fed begins to shrink its balance sheet, prices will plunge. Right?

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The drunk driving case against troubled actress and former teenage star Amanda Bynes has been moved to the mental health court at the request of her attorney, a Los Angeles judge ruled on Tuesday.




Attorney Richard Hutton argued that the 27-year-old former Nickelodeon star was unable to stand trial in the case due to doubts about her mental competence.




Bynes has been under court-ordered psychiatric care after she allegedly started a small fire in front of a home in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks in July.




Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Edward Moreton referred the case to the court’s mental health division where a judge will decide if Bynes is fit for trial, the court said.




Her drunk driving case stems from an April 2012 incident in which she was charged with driving under the influence in West Hollywood. Police said Bynes struck a sheriff’s patrol car and refused to take a sobriety test.




She pleaded not guilty last year to the driving under the influence charge. Her next court date is scheduled for January 7.




Bynes, who starred in her own sketch comedy TV series “The Amanda Show” at age 13, has become as famous for her erratic behavior, brushes with the law and odd postings on Twitter as she has for acting.




Last month her mother, Lynn Bynes, was granted temporary legal control of her legal and financial affairs while she undergoes psychiatric treatment.




Bynes, who is on probation in California for driving on a suspended license, faces charges in New York for marijuana possession and throwing a glass bong out of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.




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she’s exactly where she needs to be. not out getting into trouble, not in the news headlines, not being found dead somewhere of an overdose. hopefully she gets the help she desperately needs.




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For decades, acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog has introduced audiences to subjects that stick in one’s mind long after the credits have rolled, from a cave of artwork painted more than 30,000 years ago, to the landscape of Antarctica … or a man who believed he had a special relationship with grizzly bears.

His latest film is no less thought-provoking, but it’s a bit of a departure for Herzog — it’s a public service announcement. He created the haunting documentary, From One Second To The Next, after AT&T Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile approached him to make a film about the risks of texting and driving.

The PSA is part of AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign, urging young people to put their phones away while driving. The campaign encourages drivers to pledge that “no text message, email, website or video is worth the risk of endangering my life or the lives of others on the road.” From One Second To The Next is currently available online, where it has logged more than 1.6 million views, and will be distributed to thousands of schools across the country.

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“What was proposed to me immediately made sense. It immediately gave me the feeling I’m the right person, because I don’t need to show blood and gore and wrecked cars. What I wanted to do was show the interior side of the catastrophes. …

“It’s a deep raw emotion — the kind of deep wounds that are in those who were victims of accidents and also in those who were the perpetrators. Their life has changed and they are suffering forever. They have this sense of guilt that pervades every single action, every single day, every single dream and nightmare.”

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On why he included people who have caused accidents while texting

“The real essential thing is we have to see what is happening — and it’s not just an accident, not just the mechanics of an accident. It’s a new form of culture coming at us and it’s coming with great vehemence. …

“You can tell, for example, when you look at school yards. Kids sit around but they don’t talk. They’re all texting. And accidents have happened at a staggering rate. I mean, it’s skyrocketing. The statistics are incredible.”

On why the PSA is so lengthy

“Originally I was supposed to do four spots, 30 seconds long, but I immediately said these deep emotions, this inner landscape can only be shown if you have more time. You have to know the persons. You have to allow silences, for example, deep silences of great suffering.”

On why he made a PSA for mobile phone companies

“It’s not an art house film, let’s face it. It’s a public service announcement film. And the message is very simple. Don’t text and drive. It’s as simple as that.

“And the reaction is coming in … I mean, hundreds of emails coming in, parents writing to me. One teenage girl writes to me, ‘I sat down my mother and I told her, ‘You are texting when you’re taking me to school; you are not going to do that again.’ My mother doesn’t even take her cell phone with her [in the car] anymore.’

“So there is an effect, and that’s the only thing that counts.”

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DOES having a joint effect your driving? An experiment captured on video in the US has tested the driving competence of people who smoked a small amount of marijuana.

After some US states legalised the recreational use of marijuana, law enforcement officials in America had to set specific limits on what counts as driving under the influence for marijuana smokers.

Though several states had legalised medical marijuana in the past, none had established an acceptable THC blood content level for drivers. Basically, any motorist found driving with THC in their system was guilty of driving under the influence – even if that THC came from legally sanctioned medicinal marijuana.

Washington state has now set an official threshold of 5 nanograms of THC per millilitre of blood. Though the bill’s authors insist that level is based on significant scientific evidence, some claim that it’s completely arbitrary.

How does 5 nanograms of THC affect drivers? News network CNN wanted to find out, so it located an open test course in Washington state and three drivers willing to devote their lungs to an afternoon of scientific research.

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