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Chief Justice to hound Sandiganbayan for plea bargain deal with General Garcia
But she pointed out that a “criminal complaint under the Revised Penal Code is recognizable by the Department of Justice.” “The [DoJ] has the authority to investigate and prosecute violations of the law,” she declared. “If, in relation to their work,
Updated: 05/18/2011 06:33A
Post Election Violence: 41 Suspects Remanded In Prison
All the 41 suspects were charged separately with criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and mischief by fire, contrary to sections 96, 221 and 337 of the Penal Code Law. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Iliya Kaura, who arraigned the 21 suspects from Jama'are,
Updated: 05/18/2011 03:02A
Egypt: Military sentences youth to death
“The death sentence issued against the minor AMM, one of four defendants, illustrates the ignorance of the military judiciary in civil and criminal law alike,” said Adel Ramadan, Legal Officer at the Egyptian Iinitiative for Personal Rights in a
Updated: 05/18/2011 02:14A
Top court urges leniency for some who get behind wheel after drinking
The Supreme People's Court has asked courts nationwide to be cautious and use discretion when sentencing people in drunken-driving cases after the offence was declared a crime in the newly amended Criminal Law and Road Traffic Safety Law on May 1.
Updated: 05/18/2011 01:31A
Polygamy should be decriminalized
This law has had a deteriorating effect on individual liberties in this country, even if most of us may not realize it. Section 293 of the Canadian Criminal Code takes away individual freedom of association and allows the government to take on the
Updated: 05/18/2011 01:31A
Coke bust one of Winona area's largest
Eight bricks of cocaine -which weighed a total of 22.44 pounds or 10.2 kilograms and could have sold for more than $350000 - were seized from two California men driving to Chicago in March, court documents show. Both men have been charged with felony
Updated: 05/18/2011 01:15A
ACLU Wants Clear DOJ Stance on Medical Marijuana
“Patients, providers and legislatures need clear guidance from DOJ so they can proceed in confidence that state law will be respected,” said Jay Rorty, Director of the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project and one of the authors of the ACLU's letter.
Updated: 05/18/2011 12:49A
EFCC docks Atuche, wife, two others over alleged N32.2bn scam
Atuche, who was arraigned before Justice SA Onigbanjo alongside two others, Mr. Funmi Ademosun and Mr. Lekan Kasali, alleged to be Atuche's business partners, were accused of stealing funds being part of proceeds from the sale of Afribank Plc,
Updated: 05/17/2011 11:58P
EDITORIAL: Regulating electronic data may be next to impossible
Although Article 315 of Taiwan's Criminal Code states that a "person who, without reason, opens or conceals a sealed letter, or other type of sealed document belonging to another" is punishable under the law, many judges and lawyers do not believe she
Updated: 05/17/2011 11:47P
Case on Lokayukta probe stay against BS Yeddyurappa on May 24
Governor HR Bhardwaj had accorded sanction for prosecution of the offences committed under Section 405 of the Indian Penal Code (criminal breach of trust) and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The additional civil and sessions
Updated: 05/17/2011 11:03P
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