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Love of libraries, law and international travel takes Emmaus High Grad Far
Now Hart's love for travel, and her interest in international and criminal law will take her to The Hague, the international seat of the United Nations. According to the ICTY's Web site, “The Tribunal has laid the foundations for what is now the
Updated: 05/05/2011 05:49P
Stephen Colbert To Receive Honorary Degree
death penalty/international criminal law scholar William Schabas, and opera singer Jessye Norman. Those OTHER recipients may have some pret-ty impressive sounding jobs….but did any of them write, produce, AND star in Strangers with Candy?
Updated: 05/05/2011 04:46P
Legislature Restrains Its Compulsion to Overcriminalize Colorado
"Overcriminalization" describes the trend in America -- and particularly in Congress -- to use the criminal law to "solve" every problem, punish every mistake (instead of making proper use of civil penalties), and coerce Americans into conforming their
Updated: 05/05/2011 04:44P
Illinois House passes child exploitation bill
Bill Cunningham (D-Chicago) helped pass legislation out of the House Criminal Law Committee recently that expedites prosecutors' ability to subpoena electronic records and makes it easier to investigate cases involving the criminal exploitation of a
Updated: 05/05/2011 04:03P
Lawyer Busted for Meth Smuggling Loses Appeal
"As of his arrest, he had been practicing criminal law in Merced and Modesto for twenty years, a fact known to the officers. Garcia does not dispute that he knew - as does anyone familiar with the system - that it was unlawful to deliver even tobacco
Updated: 05/05/2011 03:13P
Criminal Law: Weapon Offenses – Continuance – Sufficiency Of Evidence
Where a defendant, who was convicted of felon-in-possession weapon charges brought constitutional challenges to the laws under the Second Amendment and Commerce Clause, the challenges were foreclosed by earlier decisions,
Updated: 05/05/2011 02:30P
Former Senate Judiciary Committee Staffer Joins White & Case's White Collar Group
He handled criminal law and national security legislation, including the Fair Sentencing Act, reauthorization of the Patriot Act and efforts to revise the honest services statute after the US Supreme Court's decision in Skilling v. United States.
Updated: 05/05/2011 02:27P
Criminal Law: Sentencing – Drug Quantity – Cash Conversion
Where a defendant had with him a distribution quality of drugs when police found him in possession of a handgun, there was sufficient evidence for the district court to find that the defendant possessed the gun in connection
Updated: 05/05/2011 02:25P
Criminal Law: Jurisdiction – Tribal Treaty
Where a defendant claimed the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because of a failure to comply with a tribal treaty, the same challenge has been rejected previously by the court and the procedures that the
Updated: 05/05/2011 02:21P
Drunk driver sent to jail
Under the amended law, drunk drivers who cause "severe consequences" face criminal penalties and can be jailed up to six months. Hou accepted the verdict and said he wouldn't appeal. The villager was caught by traffic police when he came to the
Updated: 05/05/2011 02:20P
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