TERRIFYING NEW DASHCAM FOOTAGE SHOWS MOMENT DOOMED NBC HELICOPTER FALLS OUT OF THE SKY. (PHOTO)

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Terrifying new dashcam footage shows moment doomed NBC helicopter falls out of the sky The terrifying moment an NBC helicopter fell out of the sky and plunged into the ground near where an SUV had slammed into a Metro bus was caught on dashcam. The video, obtained by KTLA, shows the helicopter descending, caught from afar on the vehicle camera of Yera Valencia. She said: “I downloaded the video of my dashcam. It’s a little dot on the video. It’s a crisp video and it just goes down.” She added: “God, it’s so close, it could have happened to anyone. My parents walk down the street.” The two back-to-back Tuesday night crashes resulted in five deaths — two involving the bus and SUV, and three as a result of the chopper going down, killing reporter Eliana Moreno, pilot George Marciniw and pedestrian Edy Gutierrez Mejia.

UGANDA'S TOP COURT BANS CIVILIAN TRIALS IN MILITARY COURTS. (PHOTO).


 Uganda's top court bans civilian trials in military courts


Uganda's top court said on Friday that trying civilians in military courts was unconstitutional and ordered any ongoing prosecutions to stop immediately, Reuters reported.


The ruling will offer relief to a key opposition figure, Kizza Besigye, who has been undergoing trial by the country's general court martial, his lawyer Erias Lukwago said, adding that the defendant would now not appear in court on Monday as originally scheduled.


"All charges or ongoing criminal trials or pending trials before the courts martial involving civilians must immediately cease," Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny-Dollo said, reading the lead judgement of a panel of Supreme Court justices.


All ongoing trials must be transferred to civilian courts, he said.


Besigye, a long-time opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, was detained in neighbouring Kenya in November.


He was subsequently brought home and charged with several firearms and security offences at the military's general court martial. Some of the charges carry the death penalty.


He has been in detention at a maximum security prison in the capital Kampala. The court has previously rejected arguments by Besigye's lawyers that challenged its powers to try civilians.


Owiny-Dollo said members of military courts did not possess legal competence to handle criminal trials in a fair and impartial manner, as required by the constitution.


Another justice on the panel, Elizabeth Musoke, said military courts were only empowered to handle disciplinary cases involving members of the country's military.


Besigye's wife, Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of U.N. agency UNAIDS, has previously said the charges against him were politically motivated. His lawyers have rejected the charges as baseless.


Human rights activists and opposition politicians have accused Museveni's government of using military courts to prosecute opposition leaders and supporters on politically motivated charges.


In a 2011 report, Human Rights Watch said Uganda's military courts violated fundamental rights of defendants while putting civilians on trial, including through the use of evidence obtained by torture.


The government has rejected any accusations of rights violations.

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