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After the Avena ruling by the ICJ, President Bush suggested that the state courts in the United States respect the decision that reinforced the 1963 Vienna treaty requirement for consular notification of the arrest of foreign nationals. On November 15, 2006, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas rejected his admonition in the matter Ex Parte Jos. Ernesto Medellin, docket number AP-75,207. -- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.
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Clemens Kochinke is a partner with Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, a Washington, DC law firm with a sixty-year record of representing embassies, governments and their scientific and cultural institutions in immunity litigation, local hiring, property, IP and treaty matters.
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