Richard Hall and Eddie Martins, the two former NYPD detectives whose “on-duty sex” with an eighteen-year-old girl in their custody led to a change in state law, have been sentenced to five years of probation, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Thursday morning.

Hall and Martins were initially charged with rape for the September 2017 incident with a woman known as Anna Chambers, but those charges were dropped in March by the Brooklyn DA, who claimed that Chambers had been inconsistent in her testimony and uncooperative with prosecutors. The pair pleaded guilty in August to lesser charges of taking a bribe — with the claim being that Chambers had bribed the officers with sex in exchange for her release — and official misconduct.

Prosecutors requested a prison term of oneThe experience of the research ethics committees in Turkey.
In this article the experience of the research ethics committees in Turkey, which are nearly ten years old, is introduced. Although the legislation related to Research on Human Beings by using Drugs and Chemical Substances, issued on 29th January 1993 by the Ministry of Health, there are a lot of problems about RECs, for example the central ethics committee has no medical ethicist as a member, and there is no ethical concept other than "consent" in their operational procedures. Membership characteristics of the ECs, and their specialty areas described functions of the ECs, the forms used, and the major items used for the evaluation of the proposals are explained. Finally the ethics committee of the Turkish Medical Association is also