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Criminal Law: First-Degree Murder – Search Warrants – Omitted Facts
Where a defendant convicted of first-degree murder and robbery claimed that material facts were omitted from an affidavit that supported a search warrant, police used information obtained by an accomplice and her admission to
Updated: 06/09/2011 04:04P
Gov't targets immigration legal help scams, warns immigrants about signs of
US Citizenship and Immigration Services is leading the effort to warn immigrants that lawyers and advocates offering to help them with their cases must be accredited by the Board of Immigration Appeals. It decides how immigration law is interpreted and
Updated: 06/09/2011 03:51P
Criminal Law: Sentencing - Enhancements - Vulnerable Victim
Where a defendant, who pleaded guilty to transporting a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity, was at least 10 years older than the victim, the district court properly found that the defendant did not rebut the
Updated: 06/09/2011 03:50P
Criminal Law: Identity Theft - Permissive Use - 'Lawful Authority'
Even though his father gave a defendant permission to use his Social Security number, the father's permission did not amount to “lawful authority” because the father did not have lawful authority to excuse the defendant's
Updated: 06/09/2011 03:46P
Morocco: Casablanca Court Sentences Newspaper Editor to a Year in Prison
"We are alarmed to see criminal charges being brought in a press case," Reporters Without Borders said. "This precedent opens the way to many abuses and to the withdrawal of the press law as effective legal tool. We urge the Moroccan courts to reverse
Updated: 06/09/2011 02:30P
Utah rep redefines “serious bodily injury” to include child sexual assault
He believes this will fill “a hole in Utah's criminal code.” Current Utah law includes acts of violence that cause bodily injury, physical pain, loss of limbs and mental faculties, but not sexual assault. An April court case prompted Daw's changes to
Updated: 06/09/2011 02:29P
Government Aims to Crack Down on Immigration Scams
The initiative, announced Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, is part education program and part crackdown on people offering immigration legal services who aren't recognized by the government to do so.
Updated: 06/09/2011 02:06P
Top Moroccan editor gets year in prison
The trial and verdict of Rachid Nini, the executive editor of Al-Massae newspaper, outraged Moroccan journalists because it was conducted under the criminal code rather than the media law and is being viewed as an attack on freedom of expression.
Updated: 06/09/2011 01:57P
The Perils of Complexity
In the field of criminal law, at least, it is time to call a halt. I do not think it would be a radical step - indeed, I think it would be highly responsible - to limit ACCA to the named violent crimes. Congress can quickly add what it wishes.
Updated: 06/09/2011 01:56P
The state cannot curb sharia law alone
The main thrust, however, is to ensure that the decisions of arbitration tribunals are only enforceable in civil disputes: not in family law or criminal law. The mention of criminal law is to bring in cases of domestic violence. So far as anyone knows,
Updated: 06/09/2011 01:48P
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