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Memorial Day Weekend Means More California Police Writing DUI Tickets
The California Highway Patrol is teaming up with 140 local law enforcement agencies in a seat belt enforcement crackdown that runs from May 23 to June 5. Lessem, who practices DUI defense law with the Southern California criminal defense law firm of
Updated: 05/27/2011 10:00P
Court rules on sex case where woman couldn't say no
The law does not allow someone to consent to bodily harm. Elizabeth Sheehy, a University of Ottawa law professor, said the ruling upholds 20 years of gains made in criminal law to protect women from sexual assault. “The big message of this decision is
Updated: 05/27/2011 09:39P
No consent to sex when a woman is unconscious
By Women's Legal Education and Action Fund May 27, 2011, Toronto -- The Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision today in the case of R. v. JA, a case in which an accused charged with the sexual assault of his unconscious common-law spouse argued
Updated: 05/27/2011 08:25P
Feature: Jailing Of Suicide Man - Time To Review Our Criminal Code
If this bill had been passed, even without the repeal of the criminal code the lawyers and judge could have used this provision for justice on Kwadwo Ababio. As it is Kwadwo Ababio is languishing needlessly in jail with his depression, possibly.
Updated: 05/27/2011 08:19P
2 Madison Officers Resign After Internal Investigations
A separate Madison Police Department criminal investigation ensued which determined that Officer Lee had not committed any criminal law violations in relation to his brother's criminal enterprise. An internal investigation into MPD policy violations,
Updated: 05/27/2011 06:56P
IN DEPTH
Up until 1983, when the Criminal Code was revised, a women's consent to sex was not required but assumed in marriage, for example. "It's taken a long time for people to realize that even in intimate relationships, women have a right to say no to sex,
Updated: 05/27/2011 06:42P
Sex in Canada: It's a conscious decision.
The provisions of the Criminal Code regarding consent “were intended to protect women against abuse by others. Their mission is not to protect women from themselves.” “Put differently, they aim to safeguard and enhance the sexual autonomy of women,
Updated: 05/27/2011 06:27P
International justice has arrived
The permanent five members of the Security Council, including countries like the United States that had previously been hesitant to embrace fully the international criminal justice project, unanimously supported the referral.
Updated: 05/27/2011 06:14P
Pa. abortion clinic plan threatens women's health
•The Abortion Control Act, the chapter of the state criminal code that abortion providers must abide by, outlines informed consent; parental consent for minors; a mandated 24-hour waiting period; reporting requirements; gestational limitations;
Updated: 05/27/2011 05:52P
Expert: Outcome of City Hall Criminal Investigation Not Likely To Be Soon
FBI agents were in Hoboken on Thursday, removing computers and files from City Hall's third floor Information and Technology office. Henry Klingeman, a criminal defense attorney in Newark and former federal prosecutor, said that while a search is
Updated: 05/27/2011 04:30P
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