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WTF: Patti Smith Guests on 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'
The performer is trying her hand at acting in a new episode of TV drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Smith turns up on the long-running show, itself a spin-off of the original Law & Order, as Columbia University mythology professor Cleo Alexander in
Updated: 06/17/2011 03:43P
Patti Smith to Make Acting Debut on 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent'
Patti Smith, aka Godmother of Punk, has made her mark in the worlds of music, poetry and the visual arts, and now she's tackling acting. In true 'L&O' fashion the plot is ripped straight from the headlines: Detectives Goren and Eames investigate a
Updated: 06/17/2011 03:31P
Ontario court won't change prostitution laws yet
Justice Susan Himel ruled in a 130-page decision, which took more than a year to prepare, that current laws were unconstitutional because they prevented sex workers — the majority of whom are women — from protecting themselves from violent pimps and
Updated: 06/17/2011 03:25P
JCPS bus driver and principal both cleared of criminal charges
Ward says, "It's an important to understand there is a distinction between criminal law and getting a criminal conviction and the internal policy procedures that may have been violated by JCPS standards." Families still have the option of filing a
Updated: 06/17/2011 03:22P
Ont. appeals court stays provincial prostitution laws
Teri-Jean Bedford, one of three sex workers challenging the constitutionality of the Criminal Code, leaves Osgoode Hall in Toronto on Friday, June 17, 2011. TORONTO — The rights of sex workers to openly
Updated: 06/17/2011 02:49P
Patti Smith to Appear on "Law & Order"
But as TV Guide reports (via the Daily Swarm), in a forthcoming episode of the USA Network procedural "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", Smith will step in front of the camera to play "Columbia University mythology professor Cleo Alexander.
Updated: 06/17/2011 02:21P
Punk rocker Patti Smith makes her acting debut on Law & Order: CI
"I've never really acted, but I highly respect the craft," she says of her upcoming role on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. "I knew that it wasn't going to be simple, but it was a little more daunting than I expected."
Updated: 06/17/2011 02:14P
Women find support against domestic violence
Advocacy groups say the existing legislation addressed the criminal nature of a case, but did not offer civil remedies. “The criminal law does not take into account the need of a woman for financial support, nor emotional and verbal violence,” says
Updated: 06/17/2011 01:55P
Jones Day | Microsoft v. i4i: The Supreme Court Affirms that Validity
bear the burden of proving patent invalidity by clear and convincing evidence, a term understood to mean something more than a mere preponderance of the evidence (though less than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of the criminal law).
Updated: 06/17/2011 01:23P
Good news
USS McCampbell acted with the authority of the UN, which has banned North Korean traffic in missile and nuclear technology. It is suspected, however, that other shipments may have gone through already. In 2010 the Obama administration is said to have
Updated: 06/17/2011 12:23P
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