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The Supreme Court of Haiti interprets and expounds all congressional enactments brought to it in cases, and as such it interprets state law. It also has superseding power over all courts to examine departmental and federal statutes and executive actions, determining whether they conform to the country's Constitution.
Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, 509 U.S. 155 (1993), is a case that the U.S. Supreme Court decided on June 21, 1993. The Court ruled that the President's executive order requiring all aliens intercepted on the high seas to be repatriated was not limited by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 or Article 33 of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Court cases in Haiti [ edit ] In 2000, fifty-nine people were put on trial for their alleged roles in the massacre, 37 of whom, including coup leader Raoul Cédras , former Chief of National Police Michel François , and paramilitary leaders Emmanuel Constant and Louis-Jodel Chamblain , were tried in absentia .
All four suspects have been appointed lawyers by the court. New details emerge in Haiti president’s slaying as newly charged suspects appear in court Skip to main content
Joly admitted in a plea document early this year to being part of a plot to smuggle U.S. firearms to Haiti and helping transfer funds, some of which were proceeds from ransoms obtained by ...
For weeks now, momentum has been building to abandon the presidential council’s formation and call on a justice from Haiti’s Supreme Court to step into the presidential void, left vacant by ...
Supreme Court Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre succeeded Aristide as interim president and petitioned the UN Security Council for the intervention of an international peacekeeping force. The Security Council passed a resolution the same day, "[t]aking note of the resignation of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti and the swearing-in of ...
On May 3, 2005, the Supreme Court overturned the verdicts given to fifteen of the former members of the FRAPH, [7] none of whom were imprisoned at the time. The testimonies the commission based its findings on would have been more structured if the commission had been able to gain access to the U.S. government information regarding the FRAPH. [8]