Every weekday morning, Precedent scours the headlines to find stories likely to be today's hot topics.

• Fort Hood killer had “recently expressed deep concerns about being sent to Afghanistan or Iraq.” [New York Times]
• Legal Aid Ontario will lay off staff to make up a $56-million budget shortfall. [Toronto Star]
• Prominent Wall Street lawyers are among the 14 people charged yesterday with conspiracy and fraud in the biggest insider trading scheme un U.S. History. [Globe and Mail]
• Radovan Karadzic’s trial has been delayed until March after the judge imposed a lawyer on the former Bosnian Serb leader, who had been stalling the tribunal by representing himself and claiming to need more time to examine evidence and documents. [New York Times]
• A Federation of Law Societies Task Force calls for a set of nationwide competency, knowledge and values awareness standards for all Canadian law schools. [Lawyers Weekly]
• The U.S. Supreme Court will rule next week on whether handing juveniles life-without-parole sentences is — like capital punishment vis a vis a 2005 decision — a case of cruel and unusual punishment. [Slate.com]
  

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