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Bride-Kidnapping: A Tradition or Crime?
Bride kidnapping is officially a criminal offence in Kyrgyzstan, where the criminal code stipulates a maximum three-year prison term for bride-kidnapping. In reality, however, few cases reach the courtroom, and those who are tried for bride-kidnapping
Updated: 05/21/2011 04:57A
Law & Order: Criminal Intent Leaves Guest Star Nick Chinlund "Very Sore"
Even though Nick Chinlund was the one throwing the punches during his guest stint on Law & Order: Criminal Intent Sunday, he probably didn't anticipate he would also be feeling the pain. "I was very sore the next day and I
Updated: 05/20/2011 10:37P
Beijingers Name Public Order Concerns
A few micro-bloggers on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, said traffic jams and environmental pollution should be at the top of the list. Other micro-bloggers said taxis and motor-taxis, which are illegal because they lack business licenses,
Updated: 05/20/2011 09:35P
Should Virtual Suicide Be Outlawed?
In order to prevent or discourage suicide, the law in many jurisdictions around the world has made it a crime to promote, aid or abet in a suicide. In California, for example, Penal Code Section 401 notes: Every person who deliberately aids,
Updated: 05/20/2011 08:48P
Assessing the Legality of Osama bin Laden's Killing
But it should be clear that facile conclusions about the killing's legality — in either direction — are almost certainly based on simplistic assumptions; either treating the killing as one to be judged by ordinary criminal law on the one hand and
Updated: 05/20/2011 06:47P
A push from the right: More conservatives joining fight to change sentencing
But a state law toughening penalties for repeat offenders left the judge with no other option. While she used her time in prison to take classes and better herself, she said she saw other non-violent offenders drawn to more severe criminal behavior
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:35P
Criminal Law: Provisional Sentence - Mental-Health Treatment - Competency
Where the government and the defendant in a criminal case sought a hearing to determine if the defendant suffered from a mental disease and should be provisionally sentenced to a treatment facility in lieu of incarceration,
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:34P
Criminal Law: Sentencing - Prior Conviction - Domestic Assault
a predicate violent felony for sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act because he served only probation, the district court did not err because the focus of the law is on the sentence that may be imposed under state law, and the court also .
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:34P
Criminal Law: Second-Degree Murder - Hearsay - Prior Misconduct
(1)Where a defendant convicted of second-degree murder for the death of his girlfriend's child challenged the trial court's exclusion of his 911 call, the tape of the call was not admissible under the excited utterances
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:34P
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McCain, 81, died last weekend after a 14-month fight with pancreatic cancer. Michael McCain remembered his father as a man of "strength, courage and conviction." "I take enormous pride that my greatest blessing in life was my opportunity to say my
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:21P
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