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Uganda: Besigye Detained Under Colonial Era Law
Police yesterday invoked the Criminal Procedure Code, a colonial era and rarely applied law, to stop Dr Kizza Besigye from leaving his Kasangati home in Wakiso District. The opposition politician, however, is not under 'house arrest',
Updated: 05/19/2011 07:27P
Perp walk a little too popular? Blame Giuliani
Mexican officials often show suspected drug traffickers surrounded by piles of cash, weapons and drugs. In Thailand, people charged with a crime sometimes are forced to re-enact their supposed deeds in front of onlookers or appear with the loot that
Updated: 05/19/2011 06:52P
Reporters' iPads should not be seized: lawyer
The technology writer, Ben Grubb, was arrested by police on the Gold Coast on Tuesday after he reported that a security researcher at a technology conference had downloaded a private photo from Facebook. At the time of the arrest, Grubb's iPad was
Updated: 05/19/2011 06:50P
Thailand: Threats to free expression endanger human rights
Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code (the lse majest law) and the more recent Computer Crimes Act of 2007 have been used with increasing frequency to threaten, intimidate, and in some cases, arrest and prosecute a series of dissidents, journalists,
Updated: 05/19/2011 06:41P
Criminal Law: Child Molestation - Sufficiency Of Evidence - Investigative
(1)Where the state presented evidence in a child molestation case that the defendant hugged his victim while his genitals were exposed, the evidence was sufficient for jurors to believe that the defendant touched the victim with
Updated: 05/19/2011 06:08P
Criminal Law: DWI Case - Officer's Permit - Test Result
Where a drunk driver argued that the trial court erred in admitting the results of a breathalyzer test because the permit of the administering officer was invalid following a transfer of legal authority between state agencies,
Updated: 05/19/2011 06:08P
Criminal Law: Witness Testimony - Removal From Courtroom - Disruptive Behavior
(1)Where an officer testified that a defendant in a drug trial was the person shown in a video selling crack cocaine to an informant, the officer's testimony was ordinary identification testimony, and the officer's prior
Updated: 05/19/2011 06:03P
Criminal Law: Post-Conviction Motion - Guilty Plea - Effect Of Medications
Where a defendant argued that his guilty pleas were not voluntary because he lacked the required mental capacity due to medications and post-traumatic stress disorder, the record conclusively refuted the claim and showed that he
Updated: 05/19/2011 05:59P
Criminal Law: Child Witness - Deposition Testimony - Hearsay
(1)Where a defendant convicted of statutory rape and statutory sodomy challenged the admission of the deposition testimony of the victim's younger brother, the testimony was consistent with spontaneous statements made at a
Updated: 05/19/2011 05:34P
Criminal Law: Sentencing - Career Offender - Counterfeit Substance
Where a defendant had prior state convictions for delivery of a “simulated controlled substance,” the convictions qualified as controlled substance offenses, so the district court did not err in sentencing the defendant as a
Updated: 05/19/2011 05:10P
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