8 NATION&WORLD • Monday, June 30, 2014 • Section A • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com
Pistorius heads back to trial Resumes after a monthlong mental evaluation of defendant The ASSOCIATED PRESS
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People pray during a rally Sunday in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine. Hundreds of people Sunday morning gathered to tell the presidential administration to demand a stop to the cease fire on the eastern part of Ukraine. According to soldiers of the Donbass battalion, the other side hasn’t stopped attacks and around 20 soldiers were killed during the last week that was suppose to be a pause in active fighting.
Ukraine president talks to Hollande, Putin and Merkel The ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tried to keep his peace plan to settle the conflict with pro-Russian separatists on track in a four-way phone call Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of France and Germany. The two-hour conversation came ahead of a Monday deadline that European Union leaders set for Russia and the separatists to take steps to ease the violence, warning that otherwise they were ready “at any time” to impose further punitive measures. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande encouraged the Ukrainian and Russian presidents to work on meeting the EU conditions, Hollande’s office said in a statement. The EU’s demands included the return of three border checkpoints to Ukrainian control, verification of the cease-fire by monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and talks to put Poroshenko’s peace plan in place. The call was the latest in a series of discussions the four leaders have held in recent weeks in an effort to stop the fighting that has killed more than 400 people since April. A cease-fire in place since June 20 has been shaky, with each side accusing the other of numerous violations. A statement issued by Poroshenko’s office said he underlined Ukraine’s willingness to maintain the ceasefire at least until Monday evening, but expressed concern about the situation, noting what he said were multiple violations of the truce by separatist fighters. He called on Putin to strengthen border controls from the Russian side to stop what Ukraine says is the flow of weapons, fighters and mercenaries. The sides agreed that more
talks among representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the separatists would convene “very soon,” Poroshenko’s office said. A Kremlin statement said the four leaders discussed having OSCE monitors stationed at the border crossing points. They also discussed issues resulting from Ukraine’s signing of a broad trade deal with the EU on Friday despite Russia’s objections. Russian officials have said Ukraine’s tariff-free trade arrangement with Russia may be withdrawn, but no trade sanctions have yet been announced. In another indication that tensions remain high, several hundred Ukrainian soldiers and activists gathered outside the presidential administration in Kiev on Sunday to demand that Poroshenko lift the cease-fire and allow them to resume their fight. A presidential administration official, Henadiy Zubko, promised to pass on their demands to the president, but told them that the cease-fire order would remain in effect until 10 p.m. Monday. Soldiers also addressed several thousand people who turned out for the traditional Sunday rally on Independence Square in central Kiev. Another EU condition was fulfilled late Saturday, when pro-Russia separatists released a second team of four OSCE observers who had been held captive in eastern Ukraine since the end of May. The first team of four was freed last week. The free-trade pact that Ukraine signed with the EU was the very deal that the former Ukrainian president dumped under pressure from Moscow in November, fueling huge protests that eventually drove him from power. Moscow responded to those events by annexing the mainly Russian-speaking Crimean Peninsula in March, and the pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine broke out a month later.
NATION BRIEFS Peruvian developer ready Transformers’ unearths to remake old car plant $100M at box office DETROIT – Peruvian developer Fernando Palazuelo said he is ready to begin clearing rubble and trash from part of Detroit’s massive Packard car plant. Palazuelo told The Associated Press last week that crews will be at the 40-acre eastside site Monday and that he plans to have an apartment for himself built there before the end of the year. The 59-year-old businessman bought the property last year for $405,000 at a county tax foreclosure auction. He said the total redevelopment cost should be near $350 million. Previous plans to demolish buildings on the site never materialized. The plant was built in the early 1900s. Car production ended in the 1950s, but its buildings were later used as warehouses and for other projects. It has been completely vacant for a number of years.
LOS ANGELES – “Transformers: Age of Extinction” is ruling the box office. The fourth installment of filmmaker Michael Bay’s morphing robots series earned $100 million in its opening weekend, making it the biggest debut for a movie in 2014, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Paramount film also earned $201.3 million from 37 international territories. “Transformers” specifically made $90 million in China. “Transformers” stars Mark Wahlberg and Nicola Peltz as a human father and daughter who aid the transforming robots from the Hasbro toy franchise. The sequel introduces the popular Transformers characters based on the likenesses of dinosaurs. “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” the previous installment in the series, took in $97.8 million during its opening weekend in 2011.
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JOHANNESBURG – The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius resumes Monday after one month during which mental health experts evaluated the athlete to determine if he has an anxiety disorder that could have influenced his actions on the night he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa is expected to receive the conclusions of a panel of one psychologist and three psychiatrists who were instructed to assess whether the double-amputee runner was capable of understanding the wrongfulness of his act when he shot Steenkamp through a closed toilet door in his home on Valentine’s Day last year. The assessments of a panel at a state psychiatric hospital could determine whether he should be held criminally responsible
and affect the judge’s deliberations on a verdict or, in the event of a conviction, the severity of the sentence, according to legal analysts. The evaluation came after a psychiatrist, Dr. Merryll Vorster, testified for the defense that Pistorius, who has said he feels vulnerable because of his disability and long-held worry about Oscar crime, had an Pistorius anxiety disorder that could have contributed to the killing in the early hours of Feb. 14, 2013. He testified that he opened fire after mistakenly thinking there was a dangerous intruder in the toilet. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel has alleged that Pistorius, 27, killed the 29-year-old model after an
argument, and has portrayed the Olympic athlete as a hothead with a love of guns and an inflated sense of entitlement. But he requested an independent inquiry into Pistorius’ state of mind, based on concern the defense would argue Pistorius was not guilty because of mental illness. Pistorius’ defense team could get a boost if the hospital evaluation roughly aligns with the conclusions of Vorster, the defense witness, said a legal expert observing the trial. Kelly Phelps, a senior lecturer in the public law department at the University of Cape Town, said a diagnosis that Pistorius has an anxiety disorder could add weight to his account and compel the judge to consider the question: “Is it more likely that he is telling the truth about what occurred on that night?” Even if the judge rules that Pistorius is guilty despite any
disorder that he is suffering, Phelps said, the diagnosis could be a mitigating factor when he is sentenced. “That is the area of law that is often referred to as diminished responsibility,” she said. Other possible conclusions in the evaluation are that Pistorius is not suffering from any anxiety disorder, which could undermine his defense. Alternatively, it might be found that he was incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong or acting in accordance with that understanding, which could lead to a verdict of not guilty because of mental illness and referral to state psychiatric care. Pistorius faces 25 years to life in prison if found guilty of premeditated murder, and could also face years in prison if convicted of murder without premeditation or negligent killing. He is free on bail.
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