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Merck's unparalleled expertiseand tools, combined with the capabilities of the ASPCA's Animal CSI Unit,means these animal abusers cannot hide." About the ASPCA(R)Founded in 1866, the ASPCA(R) (The American Society for the Prevention ofCruelty to Animals(R)) was the first humane organization established in theAmericas, and today has more than one million supporters throughout NorthAmerica baseball game tickets . A 501 [c] [3] not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA's mission is toprovide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughoutthe United States . The ASPCA provides local and national leadership inanimal-assisted therapy, animal behavior, animal poison control, anti-cruelty,humane education, legislative services, and shelter outreach . The New YorkCity headquarters houses a full-service, accredited, animal hospital, adoptioncenter, and mobile clinic outreach program . The Humane Law Enforcementdepartment enforces New York's animal cruelty laws and is featured on thereality television series "Animal Precinct" on Animal Planet. For moreinformation, please visit the ASPCA's "Mobile Animal Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Unit"The ASPCA's "Mobile Animal Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Unit," the nation'sfirst, was unveiled in December 2007.
A "forensics first," the "Animal CSI"vehicle was created to significantly advance the prosecution of animal crueltyand help strengthen cases against offenders by incorporating the emergingfield of veterinary forensics in crime scene investigations.It also providesa proven chain of custody for law enforcement, thus ensuring the integrity ofthe evidence, and helps reduce the stress placed on the animals that are theinnocent "collateral victims."SOURCEASPCAAmy Geduldig of the ASPCA, +1-212-876-7700, Ext 4567, baseball tickets . * Canadian defendant fires most of his military lawyers * Obama team still sorting Guantanamo prisoners * Chinese prisoners hold impromptu protest (Updates to add Washington ruling, prisoner protest) By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S . NAVAL BASE, Cuba, June 1 (Reuters) - The Guantanamo war crimes court wheezed back into session long enough on Monday to allow a young Canadian defendant to fire most of his squabbling U.S military lawyers . In the first session since President Barack Obama took office in January, defendant Omar Khadr told the military judge he could no longer trust his Pentagon-appointed defense lawyers because they had been fighting among themselves for months . "They've been accusing each other and pointing fingers at each other ... I want to erase all of them," said Khadr, who is accused of killing a U.S. soldier with a grenade during a firefight in Afghanistan seven years ago.
His lawyers would not discuss specifics but said they disagree on what is in Khadr's best interest division series playoff . The judge let Khadr fire all but one of them until his Canadian advisers can help him choose a permanent replacement . Obama has ordered the Guantanamo detention operation shut down by January 2010 and asked military judges to freeze the pending trials for 120 days to give his administration time to decide how to proceed . The freeze expired and prosecutors have asked for another 120 days' delay as the Obama team sorts out which of the 240 Guantanamo prisoners should be tried, where and how . Khadr's judge will not rule on extending the stay until he determines which lawyer speaks for Khadr He set a hearing on July 13 to revisit the issue. Khadr was first charged in 2005 but the charges have been dropped and refiled several times as the court itself has been dissolved and reincarnated to address legal challenges and fairness issues that critics have called insurmountable.
Khadr was 15 when captured in Afghanistan and 16 when sent to the detention camp on the U.S Navy base in southeast Cuba . He is now a 22-year-old with a short bushy beard and would face life in prison if convicted of murder and conspiring with al Qaeda . No new trial date has been set and the Obama administration has not announced whether Khadr will stay in the military tribunal system . But the judge, Army Colonel Patrick Parrish, warned Khadr that switching lawyers would not necessarily win him further delays .