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I have the opportunity to visit Toronto from December 25 - December 29 and I have a few questions: 1) Will things (restaurants, shops, museums) be open on Christmas Day and Boxing Day? 2) Is it foolish to visit in December (weather? crowds?)? 3) What are the must-see, must-do things in Toronto? 4) What are the best restaurants in Toronto? (I'm looking for fine dining as well as local fare.) Thanks!
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1) Basically nothing will be open on Christmas Day. A few restaurants -- mostly Chinese ones and ones in hotels, major movie theaters, that's about it. Boxing Day is a mixed bag -- some tourist places will be open, some won't. It's the Canadian equivalent of Black Friday for shopping, though, so many chain stores will be open and have huge sales on.
2) Toronto weather in December is highly variable. You might get snow, it might be damned cold, it might be crisp and fall-like but otherwise fine. Toronto only has snow on Christmas about half the time, so that should tell you something about your odds. And barring a massive, major snowstorm, snow doesn't affect Toronto much, so it won't make any difference to your stay even if it is snowing.
3) What do you like to do? It's a very large city with many things to do. We have great theater (both Broadway level and local productions), great music (both major label acts on tour and small local venues), great museums (see previous caveats), great neighborhoods, great shopping, great restaurants.
4) Can you narrow this down a little? There are thousands and thousands of restaurants in Toronto. Where will you be staying? Looking for things near attractions? Making food a major focus of your visit such that you'll travel for great food? If I had to recommend one single restaurant to visit in Toronto, it would be Keriwa Cafe, but it's a bit out of the way and not in the greatest neighbourhood.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
Yeah, narrow it down please. Then I'll be a fountain of ideas.
Are you coming with kids? Are you 65 years old or 19 years old? Do you like museums or do you like hole-in-the-wall bars? (Or both?) As for 'must sees', do you want the major tourist attractions (in which case you don't need a forum like mefi) or the stuff that locals love to do on a day-to-day basis?
Since it sounds like you've done no research at all, i'd suggest you at least start with these websites to help you focus:
Lonely Planet: Toronto
Toronto Life
Now Magazine
posted by
on September 30, 2012
Two adults in our 40s.
We like the arts/theater, museums, shopping, dining. We also like architecture and simply sightseeing.
As far as restaurants go, we always like to eat at "the best" restaurant a city has to offer.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
There's thousands of restaurants in Toronto, and very many different ways of defining best. Most stars? Most exclusive? Any one of a wide range of cusines from around the world? Best neighbourhood eats? We could still use a bit more direction here.
In terms of Christmas, here's a list of what
was open
on Christmas Day last year. It's not exhaustive but it will give you an indication of what will be available. Plus the places in Chinatown are always open.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
Can you make the drive down to Niagara Falls? If you do indeed like architecture try and make the drive to Buffalo too!
posted by
on September 30, 2012
(Why is everyone being so mean?)
By "the best," I really do mean the best _____ -- fine dining, neighborhood favorite, exceptional ethnic, vegetarian, most stars, most exclusive, what have you. Fill in the blank.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
Toronto Life's
best restaurant
list (this is a pretty reliable source for 'the best of') and "
best new restaurants
" list
posted by
on September 30, 2012
I think the reason people are being a bit impatient is that very generic questions like this are usually best answered by general city or travel websites, not forums like Mefi. The main benefit of asking a question here is to get information that's specific to your interests, but since you didn't ask for that, people are trying to figure out what you "really" want (beyond the generic), so that they can add actual value to the thread.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
Here are my suggestions:
Arts: see the nutcracker put on by the national ballet of Canada. Go to the art gallery of Ontario. See a concert at Roy thompson hall.
Theatre: I don't know much about theatre so I'll let others weigh in.
Shopping: Eaton centre, yorkdale shopping mall, bloor street (for your Chanel and tiffany fix), yorkville (pretty expensive, a lot of stars go there)
Museums: go to the royal Ontario museum, the Gardiner textile museum, the. Inuit art museum.
Dining: momfuku just opened here. You have to go to guu. And susur or lee. (Both very expensive.) King's cafe in Kensington for Asian vegetarian. One love for vegetarian caribbean
Architecture: go to casa loma, the Ontario legislature buildings, university if Toronto, city hall.
Other must see and do: the cn tower of course. Harbourfront, and the beach in the east end. Skate at Nathan Phillips square at city hall.
Sorry no links, on my phone.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
I'm not being mean, but I run a restaurant recommendation site for a living and you're giving me absolutely nothing to go on. There are thousands of restaurants, and hundred of them are excellent, so best is totally meaningless. I mean, I could sit here and think up categories and tell you what I think the best restaurants are on each one, but I'd be here all night.
Some of the best regarded very expensive restaurants are George, Canoe, Splendido, and Nota Bene. Khao San Road is the best Thai in the city. There are new David Chang restaurants just opened, but I haven't been to them and they are so hyped at the moment that I couldn't guess whether they are good or not. Keriwa Cafe, which I mentioned before, is my personal favourite resto in the city at the moment, but that takes into account price and proximity to my house to some extent. In the same nabe as Keriwa, I love Cafe Polonez for Polish home style food.
Libretto for pizza, unless you want a more, varied menu in which case Terroni, provided noone in your party is fussy or likes to drink diet cola. For more interesting Italian, campagnolo or enoteca sociale.
I could go on like this for hours, possibly days, but it feels like a waste of my time, because you're obviously not going to eat in dozens of restaurants in 4 days. Some sense of what you want would help me focus.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
Most shops are closed Christmas Day with the exception of designated tourist zones. If you have a car or are cool with taking public transit, I highly recommend heading up to Pacific Mall northeast of the city. Open 365 days of the year from 9-9, it's an Asian mall with two floors of shops that sell everything from electronics to eyeglasses to designer clothing to medicinal herbs. Up in the second floor foodcourt is Sun's Kitchen, which makes some of the most delicious noodles in town and served in various combos of veggies, dumplings, meats and broth.
With regard to general restaurant recos, another good source is Joanne Kates' annual top-100 list. Khao San Road is great but they stopped taking reservations recently so keep that in mind. Libretto on Ossington doesn't take reservations either but their location on Danforth does. A little further north on St Clair are both locations of Pizza e Pazzi which also does a neapolitan style pizza not too far from The Stockyards which does good BBQ.
Some smaller or family run places may be closed for holidays the week after Christmas but most things are open. The malls are best to be avoided because of bargain hunters but otherwise otherwise a lot of folks are on vacation so traffic and such aren't terrible.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
The National Ballet Company's
is a Christmas tradition in Toronto (very traditional - even too traditional for my taste, as I prefer more contemporary dance).
War Horse
is also playing -- a wonderul production. (I'm not usually a big budget theatre fan, but
War Horse
is special - especially for the puppety and choreography).
The Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario are major museums - both are very good. If you have access to a car, the McMichael Gallery (1/2 drive north of Toronto - outside of the public transit system) has a very unique collection of Canadian art, including First Nations, Inuit and Group of Seven. I don't know is any of these places will be open on the 25-26.
Queen Street West (esp Spadina to Ossington) is a nice shopping area and more unique to Toronto than the Eaton Centre or Yorkdale (both big malls) - but not as unique and Kensington Market (strange mixture of gift stores, vintage, designer boutiques, import places and dollar stores - also excellent buritos from the Emporium Latino). Bloor between Yonge and Avenue and Yorkville right behind are the high end shopping districts.
I generally only eat at places that cost $20 or less per person, so I don't know fine dining. But if you are looking for cheaper but excellent food, the south Indian food (including dosas) at
Madras Masala
is brilliant; the best Ethipian I've had in Toronto was at
at Bathurst and College.
posted by
on September 30, 2012 [
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is Ethiopian, and actually the best I've had anywhere -- the kitfo melts in your mouth.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
Some capital A Architecture worth visiting: Art Gallery of Ontario (Gehry); Ontario College of Art & Design (Alsop); TD Towers (Mies Van der Rohe); BCE Place (Callatrava); Union Station.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
Seconding Khao San Road.
Pacific Rim Mall is a fabulous Christmas-period idea and would make a great half-day trip.
Check out Tafelmusik.
posted by
on September 30, 2012
Husbunny and I visited Toronto in the summer and we visited in February. We're about your age, and we had a ball.
First of all, if it's snows, it's lake effect snow, so it's similar to Pittsburgh or New York.
In February we drove up from Atlanta, mostly because everyone says they want to move to Canada in the summer, but it really takes balls to say you want to in the winter. We took that challenge.
The first time we went, we stayed at the Sheraton downtown. Don't really recommend that, only because downtown rolls up the streets at night. When we went in February, we stayed out in Brampton. More suburban, more of what we'd encounter when we move there (pipe-dream). We decided to drive into the city after a fresh snowfall. We bailed on that idea after we saw about 7 cars in snow drifts off of the freeway. I mean, if guys who live there can't do it...
We saw the Blue Jays play, and we saw Evil Dead the musical. That was great. We took a day tour to Niagara Falls in the summer. Don't know if I'd like it in the winter.
For what you're describing, I recommend staying in the
Theatre District
I also suggest a guided tour of Toronto. There's a half day bus tour that was really interesting.
If you can get past the boredom of Christmas, I think you'll really enjoy Toronto. They have underground tunnels from the hotels to shopping and stuff like that.
Tim Hortons is good for breakfast.
posted by
Ruthless Bunny
on October 1, 2012
Speaking to number 3 and 4, BlogTo is a fantastic resource that might help you narrow down things to do in the city according to your personal interests.
If you have a pad/pod, they also have an app which allows you to look up reviews and recommendations for any place in the city where you happen to find yourself. Especially for restaurants. Standing on the corner, for example, craving poutine.... and you've got access to recommendations for the best Poutineries, directions for how to get there, and then other related highlights also close by. Galleries, theaters, bars, you name it...
I totally don't work for them, but I would use it if I was visiting.
posted by
on October 1, 2012
You might consider staying at the Gladstone or Drake Hotels, two marvelous boutiques on Queen St W.
If you're planning to come into town on Christmas day, you'll want to suss out where you will eat beforehand because most (95%) places will be closed (the exceptions being Chinese restaurants outside of downtown and hotels). Having said that, Tundra in the Hilton is a pretty good restaurant and the Royal York Hotel has a posh locavore oriented restaurant that I also enjoyed reasonably well. (neither were the city's "best" restaurants). Pacific Mall might might be open, which would make that a reasonably fun way to spend half a day. Depending on how light you travel, you could even go there straight from the airport (it's in the NE quadrant of the city, about 80 minutes from downtown by transit).
As others have said, Toronto's weather Christmas week is quite variable. You'll want to come prepared for biting wind and blustering ankle-deep snow, but also for grey skies and muddy roads. You'll certainly needs gloves and hats; I might wear a fall coat but you'll want your winter wear, I suspect. You'll likely need warm, waterproof foot wear.
I strongly recommend visiting Little India on Gerrard St E. There are also other AskMe questions about things to do in Toronto you should look at.
The Distillery District has done a nice "Christmas market" the last few years, you'll have to check if it's dates match yours.
The Eaton Centre and Yorkdale mall will be overflowing with bargain-hunting crowds from Dec 26-28, but elsewhere will be totally manageable. By the same token, I have no idea why you would you go to a Canadian mall on holiday from the US.
In addition to BlogTO and Toronto Life, check out the concert listings at
for classical and new music concerts.
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NEW YORK -- Hockey, hockey, so nice they played it twice.
Sure, there was a game Sunday at Yankee Stadium, the New Jersey Devils against the New York Rangers, and it was a landmark affair in that it was the first National Hockey League contest to be played outdoors in New York City, at the big ballpark in the Bronx, no less. But all along, Wednesday's meeting between the Rangers and New York Islanders was the main event. Nothing attracts puck enthusiasts in and around the Big Apple quite like a duel between the Blueshirts and their archrivals from Long Island.
Theirs is a rivalry born 42 years ago, when the Islanders, an expansion team, trespassed on and took up residence in what was then the Rangers' suburban backyard, playground and practice home. It grew when the Islanders did the unthinkable with a playoff upset in 1975, and it intensified to unimaginable heights in the decade that followed as the Islanders won four Stanley Cups while the Rangers endured taunts of "1940!" -- the year of their last championship before they returned to NHL glory in 1994.
On Sunday, the fans danced and sang, took in the unusual spectacle of hockey being played in a ballpark and tried not to get frostbite while watching the Rangers' 7-3 victory. On Wednesday, though, despite it being three degrees colder at game time -- 22 -- than it was at the start of Sunday's game, the 50,027 fans in the house clearly were there for the hockey, glued to the action from the first drop of the puck, made evident by the frequent and loud dueling chants of "Let's go, Rangers!" and "Let's go, Islanders!" that continued until the end of the Rangers' 2-1 win.
This was Rangers-Islanders, not unlike Yankees-Red Sox, and the fans love it when their team beats the other. If you were in a New York-area bar in 1984 when a decisive playoff game between the two went into overtime -- the Islanders won it on a goal by Ken Morrow that kept alive their Drive For Five -- you thought the roof might explode when the game-winner went in the net. Kind of like how the old Yankee Stadium was when Aaron Boone homered off Tim Wakefield in 2003. A Rangers-Islanders game is serious business.
So it was much more of a Yankee Stadium kind of event, as New Yorkers have been taking seriously their most favorite sport, baseball, at the junction of 161st Street and River Avenue for more than 90 years. Consider that they booed near the end of the first period when the public-address announcer reminded them that Grammy Award winner CeeLo Green would perform during the first intermission. They were not there for the peripheral entertainment. They were there for the hockey.
The game they witnessed was not the loose, defensively challenged type that was played three days prior, but a fairly even contest in which a puck didn't find its way into a net until the teams exchanged goals 40 seconds apart just before the second intermission.
That made the crowd even more focused on the hockey in the third period, when the Rangers took the lead on Daniel Carcillo's goal at the 4:36 mark, on a rebound in front as the Islanders collapsed in front of their goaltender, Evgeni Nabokov.
"It was spectacular," Islanders captain John Tavares said, working through the disappointment of seeing his team's winless streak grow to four games, at a time when it is desperate to earn points and get into the playoff race. "Hearing the chants go back and forth like they always do, it was a lot of fun."
When Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist and his teammates denied the Islanders on three tries in front almost halfway through the third period, Rangers fans could be heard loud and clear. And they roared when Kyle Okposo's shot right in front in the closing seconds was deflected wide of the net, sealing the Rangers' victory. It was a well-earned and important win for the Rangers, who took charge of the game in the final 20 minutes, and it left them undefeated in the Bronx.
"I thought it was a great game, a lot of fun to play," said Lundqvist, who again wore pinstriped equipment and a mask featuring the likenesses of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio and improved his outdoor record to 3-0. "In a few years, you'll be able to look back at it with a smile on your face."
The Islanders have something in common with the Bronx Bombers that the Rangers do not. There are four teams in North America that have won four or more consecutive major sports titles, and the Islanders and Yankees are two of them. The others are the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Montreal Canadiens. So it was fitting, in a way, that the Islanders, as the designated home team, were assigned to the Yankees' impressive dressing room.
"I loved every second of it," Nabokov said.
"It was a great experience," said Islanders coach Jack Capuano. "Obviously you don't want to be on this side of it, but the show they put on was pretty amazing. We were fortunate to be in on it."
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Slipknot have been confirmed as one of the headliners of Sonisphere 2011 Kerrang! can reveal.
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HELL FKIN YEAH :D EPIC!!! I will be there for sure <3 Slipknot!!!
o wow these next year's festivals are shaping up to be fucking epic
fuck this is HUGE news!
So fucking happy the knot will return!!! Best news all year:)
this is the best news all year. even better than Bon Jovi's hiatus.
Fuck Yeah! Awesome!!!!
I have to miss out on THIS! I think I might cry :'(
The other headliner is Blink 182!
The other headliner will decide which festival I go to. If they're shit I'm going to download but if it's someone like Bullet or Maiden I'm going to Sonisphere.
@Luke, if the other headliner is Blink Sonisphere will have to have an amazing undercard to keep up with Download.
just wanted to say, the other headliner can't be Blink because Blink are on tour then.
also SLIPKNOT!! YES!!! xD
YeaH!!!!! i don't care about other bands!! i will go ther only 4 SLIPKNOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about A7X on Fri Stonesour on Sat and Slipknot on Sun
I'm reading this in a geography controlled asessment , so Glad Slipknot are returning. Arena tour please?
AWESOME!!! cant fuckin wait to see slipknot doin stuff again, bin to long!
are they goin on tour, or is this just a one off thing?
Great that Slipknot will be in Europe next Summer, looking like the Festivals are going to have many strong bills.
I would like to see Sonisphere Knebworth blosom in to a full 3 day Festival.
I also hope that Machine Head can get to headline a day at either Download or Sonisphere as they are a great live band and have done so many great Festival performances.
OOh fuck yea man I cannot wait!!! I havent seen these guys live for at least 5 years!!!!!
That wank Copping probably thought he had a winner in System Of A Down and then Sonisphere pull off this coup. Sonisphere will have Copping sweating now. Still going to both anyway, just don't like Andy Copping much.
"This tour is about burning down that door. See you [next]summer." They say TOUR. Not Appearance. TOUR More dates? "Look out for another exciting announcement on Monday" SLIPKNOT EUROPE TOUR?!
Mick Whitehead - Avenged Sevenfold are Download exclusive.
Great start. I didn't go to Sonisphere last year and the line-up was immense. With Coroner announced for Bloodstock recently I've got a tough call to make!
Fucking Yaaas!
Hopefully a UK tour isn't far away!
FUCK YES! im totally going <3
oioioi fucker answer ARE THEY COMING TO LONDON
this is amazing news tbh, but the festivals this year look like extreme competion, I bloody love slipknot and have done for a long time but my dream would be for avenged sevenfold to be added ( i know they won't ) Because i have exams when they're at download i cant see them then and they're truely amazing live ... Foo fighters should headline friday and someone really classic like metallica or RHCP on the sat and slipknot on the sunday, have a bit of variety and quality music, Just Don't have Bring me the horizon again!
download just got raped up the shitter!!
System of a Down or Slipknot?
Why couldn't they headline the same fucking festival!? =.=
OMFG!!!!!!!!!!! I HOPE I GET THE TICKETS !!!!!!!!! bet i wont tho , i never do ¬¬
Ozzy and Megadeth anyone?
the knot? BACK!!??? YEESS! HECK YEAH! this is actually some of the best news ever! there back AND GONNA GO ON FREAKING TOUR! this is ljke wooah!..so happy! >:D
i don't understand! are they going to play in europe or at knebworth park which is in london? or are they gonna play in all the editions of sonisphere?
btw GREAT NEWS!!!
P.S.: R.I.P Paul
Love the knot....But i dont know if they should be playing this show....
If they wanted to play shows for the memory of paul and the fans, then they should be doing their own shows and not the festival circuit, when the biggest amount of cash is put on the table.... A bit cynical, but it just doesnt seem right...
Robb: knebworth park, i don't know about the rest of europe
wooohooooo, sonisphere is like half an hour away from my house. this makes me happy, 'cos i can hear it even if i don't go. but i am going...so i dont know why that matters...
kerrang reporting things ages after theyve already been announced but watever haha THATS ME GOIN TO SONISPHERE AND DOWNLOAD NOW! SLIPKNOT! A7X! SOAD! STONE SOUR! < THATS ALL I NEED!
cannot fucking wait
corey said he'll see plymouth in 2011, this means he'll be coming with slipknot not stone sour!!!
and biffy have just been named headliners too
Yeah... i have no idea where to go!!!
apparently they've canceled and are being replaced by pink floyd? if this is true FML.


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TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad headed for the annual UN General Assembly on Monday with little scope for effective diplomacy, weakened by rivals at home maneuvering to prevent his words to the world being taken as Tehran's official stance.
Trying to divert attention from his fading standing in the Islamic Republic, Ahmadinejad told US media on Tuesday the two US citizens recently sentenced to eight years in prison for alleged espionage would be freed "in a couple of days."
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But Iran's judiciary, controlled by rival conservative hardliners, immediately and publicly humiliated Ahmadinejad by ruling out any imminent release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, highlighting the president's deepening credibility deficit.
"Hardline rulers have taken the gloves off against Ahmadinejad ... by delaying the release of the Americans ... The establishment showed that Ahmadinejad is a lame-duck president," said political analyst Hasan Farzi. "Such a weak president is unlikely to be able to achieve any diplomatic breakthrough while meeting world leaders in New York."
Contradictory announcements by Iranian leaders renders comprehension of Iran's complex clerical-led hierarchy even more difficult for the West in such sensitive areas as diplomacy on Iran's contested nuclear program and the popular upheaval in Syria, Iran's key ally in the Middle East.
Iranian politicians, influential clerics and the elite Revolutionary Guards, who quelled anti-government outpourings in the streets after Ahmadinejad's disputed 2009 re-election, have distanced themselves from the president over his challenging of the authority of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Ahmadinejad has suffered a series of dramatic setbacks in his power struggle with Khamenei. In the past months at least 25 allies of Ahmadinejad have been arrested and several websites affiliated with them have been blocked.
His closest ally, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, has been accused of graft, leading a "deviant current" that seeks to challenge the theocratic establishment, and links to a $2.6 billion bank fraud described as the biggest financial scam in Iran's history.
Ahmadinejad has rejected the accusations against his allies and Mashaei is accompanying the president on his UN trip.
Khamenei swiftly endorsed Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election, which created a rift among Iran's hardline ruling elites and ignited months of anti-government street protests.
When Khamenei reinstated Ahmadinejad's sacked intelligence minister in April, the president refused to go to his office for 11 days but lost the battle after Khamenei signaled that he might be dismissed.
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An Iranian official who asked not to be named said Khamenei's allies had warned Ahmadinejad to avoid vitriolic speeches at the United Nations, where in the past he has called for Israel's annihilation and claimed that the United States orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
"Even if he gives fiery speeches or again calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, these words should not be interpreted as the views of hardline rulers," said analyst Hamid Farahvashi.
"The warning was given to prevent any bitter surprises ... that could put more pressure on the country and its leadership," he said. "But Ahmadinejad is unpredictable."
Iran's cleric-led elite is concerned above all about any spillover effect of popular uprisings against dictatorial leaders in the Arab world. They say these revolts have been inspired by Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, although most analysts say they are secular and pro-democracy in nature.
"The main issue for Khamenei is preserving the establishment when all these regime changes are taking place in the region," said Farzi.
Iranian opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi have been put under house arrest since February to minimize prospects for any unrest. But the leaders insist the pro-reform movement is still alive.
Some analysts say Ahmadinejad's efforts to release the US citizens could be aimed at refurbishing his international image.
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"Any kind of backing by the West can strengthen Ahmadinejad's position in Iran," he said, because many Iranians want the Islamic Republic to open up to the West.
A political constellation of conservative elites has crystallized against Ahmadinejad, analysts say, to block his camp winning upcoming elections.
"Hardliners have aligned to block Ahmadinejad's allies to win the parliamentary election in March, which will be a litmus test for Ahmadinejad's popularity," said analyst Reza Sedghi.
"(However), he still enjoys the support of lower-income Iranians ... Ahmadinejad is like Robin hood for some Iranians because of cash handouts by the government."
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Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller co-authored a friend-of-the-court brief last week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to modify or overturn its June decision in the case Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, which requires crime lab analysts to appear in court to testify to their results.The Supreme Court will soon hear a nearly identical case that presents an opportunity to change, overturn or uphold the precedent it set.The case this summer involved a Massachusetts man, Luis Melendez-Diaz, charged with distributing and trafficking cocaine. At his trial, prosecutors introduced as evidence a certificate from a state crime lab. A jury found Melendez-Diaz guilty, and he appealed his case to the Supreme Court, arguing that the use of a document as evidence violated his Sixth Amendment right to confront his accusers.The Court ruled 5-4 in his favor, saying a lab analyst must appear in court so he or she can be cross-examined.Briscoe v. Virginia, which is on the court's docket for Jan. 11, will force the justices to again consider whether using a report from a crime lab as evidence violates the Confrontation Clause.Zoeller's brief, which is signed by attorneys general in 24 states and the District of Colombia, says requiring lab technicians to appear in court will create larger backlogs for crime labs and will result in more expensive and time-consuming drug prosecutions.According to the brief, Melendez "stymies prosecutors and cripples crime labs" and provides defendants with a "procedural advantage unrelated to guilt or innocence." It says if Melendez is not overturned, it will wreak havoc on state criminal justice systems.But directors of two Indiana crime labs said the new rules have not increased their backlogs.The Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Service Agency has a backlog of 1,333 forensic cases, of which 900 are in the DNA unit. At the Indiana State Police Department crime lab, which has a larger staff, the DNA backlog is 812.The Forensic Service Agency has actually analyzed more evidence than it had at the same time last year. Through the end of last month, the lab had completed 11,450 cases, compared to the 9,727 it had completed in October 2008.Zoeller's brief argues that lab technicians are not accusatory witnesses and thus are not subject to the Confrontation Clause. Michael Medler, director of the Marion County Forensic Services Agency, agreed that lab technicians are not accusers."We exonerate as many people as we identify," Medler said. "Lab personnel are not investigatory in nature, they're part of the system. They are not in the business of putting people in jail."But the Court said because lab evidence is often crucial to proving guilt, the defendant must have an opportunity to cross-examine the person who presents that evidence.Medler said Melendez hasn't changed much about the way his lab operates. Analysts from his lab have always appeared in court to testify unless the defense attorney stipulated to the results, he said. What have affected his lab, however, are the stricter requirements about who can testify.In the past, supervisors in each unit of Medler's lab reviewed and signed off on technicians' test results. But under the new precedent, these "technical leaders" cannot testify – the technician who tested the sample must appear in court."That can affect the system drastically," Medler said. "There's no reason that (technical leaders) can't testify except through this interpretation of the Confrontation Clause." Major Ed Littlejohn, head of the Indiana State Police Laboratory, said his lab had a similar practice of sending "keepers of the record," to testify. Littlejohn also echoed Zoeller's brief, saying the new rules may make defense attorneys less likely to stipulate to test results.Melendez could also have consequences other than those mentioned in Zoeller's brief.Medler gave an example of a chemist who worked in his lab that was killed in a car accident. After the Melendez decision, Medler said about 30 of the chemist's cases had to be re-analyzed so that someone could testify to the results in court.Medler said this was not particularly burdensome, but it raised an important question: What if a forensic scientist in the DNA unit passed away?Forensic scientists develop a DNA profile of a suspect based on a tiny amount of genetic material. Medler said sometimes the entire sample is used during a DNA analysis. In that instance, it would be impossible to go back and re-work the case if the scientist who did the original analysis passed away.Since lab results are often crucial to criminal cases, this raises the question of whether cases like these would be dismissed.Medler and Littlejohn said they would favor a ruling in Briscoe that allowed technical leaders or keepers of the record to testify."We would very much favor that because it's going to save time and effort, and I personally believe it's going to give the defendant the same opportunity to ask questions from that person," Medler said.Although Indiana labs have not been profoundly affected by Melendez, Zoeller is convinced state criminal justice systems will suffer under the precedent."We zealously support the Sixth Amendment protection that all defendants have the constitutional right to confront and cross-examine witnesses," Zoeller said in a press release.
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