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Nominees Announced to Fill Three DC Superior Court Vacancies
Beshouri was appointed to the court in 2009, following a 23-year career as a criminal defense attorney; he is a former instructor with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy at George Washington University Law School. Hankins serves as special
Updated: 05/13/2011 11:23A
Amnesty slams Turkey over human rights violations
Despite increasingly open debate regarding previously taboo issues, numerous criminal prosecutions in Turkey are following the expression of dissenting opinions, Amnesty International said Friday. In its annual analysis of the world's human rights,
Updated: 05/13/2011 10:50A
Round Up the Usual Suspects ... and Shoot Them
Until 9/11 states, or anyway, the US and most other constitutional states, had two separate bodies of law under which they could coerce people: criminal law and the laws of war. Law enforcement agents, operating under the criminal law,
Updated: 05/13/2011 10:47A
Experts hope Pa?al? ruling will set precedent for future cases
The Ankara High Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced ?stikbal Yetkin, accused of killing his ex-wife late last year, to aggravated life imprisonment on charges of premeditated murder in accordance with Article 82 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK).
Updated: 05/13/2011 10:25A
Indie Comics Seized by Customs Agents at US-Canada Border
Agents of the Canadian Border Services confiscated last weekend a number of independently produced comic books en route to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Copies of the graphic novella Young Lions by Blaise Larmee and an anthology called Black Eye 1:
Updated: 05/13/2011 10:09A
What International Law Says about the Killing of Bin Laden
It does not wage "war" against terrorists, but combats them with a fair and proportional criminal law, in line with the rule of law. This does not exclude the use of force and even the killing of terrorists as ultima ratio but only respecting the rules
Updated: 05/13/2011 09:42A
Top court hears pros, cons on heroin-injection site
The Conservatives oppose the operation of the site and are refusing to extend the exemption to the Criminal Code that prevents arrests at the East Side clinic. "The risks of overdose and the risk of contracting diseases are not a function of the law;
Updated: 05/13/2011 09:35A
WALDEN v. U.S.
Criminal Jury Instructions, supra note 1, No. 3.101. A permitted inference of this kind, embodied in a jury instruction, is a commonplace in the criminal law. 2 Of course, the inference allowed may not be cast in mandatory terms or in the form of a
Updated: 05/13/2011 08:32A
Prosecutor General's Office: No grounds to release Lutsenko from custody
Part 3, Article 365 (abuse of office, which led to grave consequences), and Part 3, Article 364 (the abuse of power and office by a law enforcer, which caused damage to citizens' rights as protected by the law) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Updated: 05/13/2011 06:45A
'A hangover and a huge ticket will make you think twice'
Current federal and city laws are more than adequate, said veteran criminal defence lawyer Frank Pappas, who called the city's plan "preposterous." Criminal Code section 175 plainly outlaws "fighting, screaming, shouting, swearing, singing or using
Updated: 05/13/2011 04:23A
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