As the crisis in Kosovo continues, the United States has agreed to accept 20,000 refugees. IIT students created and set up an Internet database to register Kosovar refugees with the Albanian Office of Refugees. Only registered refugees are eligible to receive food, clothes and medical assistance. Opening arguments in the trial of seven men accused of misconduct in the prosecution of former Death Row inmate Rolando Cruz will begin this week.
Experts are available to discuss prosecutorial misconduct, pre-trial publicity and other issues.
The 1999 Major League Baseball season began Sunday when the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres took the field in Mexico City. He is available for interviews about baseball's past, present and future legal controversies. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that police may search passengers' belongings when they are searching a vehicle for criminal evidence against the driver. Experts are available to discuss the Court's decision. The New York Police Department has been under fire for brutalizing a Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima, in Brooklyn in 1997 and for the recent killing of an African immigrant, Amadou Diallo.