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Feds seek to end domestic violence on tribal lands
Brent Leonhard, interim attorney general for the confederated tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, said the tribes' government has a comprehensive criminal code that covers family crimes. He said everyone there is entitled to a public
Updated: 07/25/2011 12:22P
Attorney general's grand jury request in lt gov case heads to SLED chief
It has subpoena power and SLED agents aid its investigations as it determines whether to issue a criminal indictment. Under state law a criminal indictment could bring a suspension from office if Gov. Nikki Haley gives an OK. Haley is also a Republican
Updated: 07/25/2011 11:57A
Texas Town Braces For Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs'Trial
"I would imagine that they would want to transfer it to the moon where you might have a chance that no one would have heard of it," said Patrick Metze, a criminal law professor at Texas Tech University. Jeffs is charged with sexual assault of one child
Updated: 07/25/2011 11:35A
Pearl's Benefit of the Doubt Goes Poof
Back in 1996, in my first semester of Criminal Law at UT, the professor kicked off an hour-long discussion about one of the fundamental precepts of criminal jurisprudence in the US, Blackstone's Formulation that it is "better that ten guilty persons
Updated: 07/25/2011 11:10A
Local senator leads reform of marijuana laws
Karen Tallian, D-Ogden Dunes, is eager for Thursday's meeting of the legislature's Criminal Law and Sentencing Policy Study Committee because the state's marijuana laws finally will get a thorough review. "You can't believe the number of people that
Updated: 07/25/2011 11:03A
Concord Law School Hosts Graduation
He has also taught at Villanova University School of Law, Cornell Law School, and New York Law School. His major area of academic expertise is criminal law, particularly sentencing and juvenile justice, about which he as written extensively and
Updated: 07/25/2011 08:44A
UK charity backs lawyer's constitutional challenge
“MDLI's principal submission is that the use of the criminal law in the context of defamation cannot be justified as being necessary to protect the reputation or rights of others,” wrote Ms Rogers, adding that criminal defamation laws were
Updated: 07/25/2011 08:13A
Texas town braces for Jeffs trial
"I would imagine that they would want to transfer it to the moon where you might have a chance that no one would have heard of it," said Patrick Metze, a criminal law professor at Texas Tech University. Jeffs is charged with sexual assault of one child
Updated: 07/25/2011 08:10A
Somyot pleads for tolerance
Somyot, 50, said Thai law has been abused as a political tool to penalise the critics of the ruling regime and the bureaucracy. The Criminal Code's article 112, in particular, was an over-reactive punishment, Mr Somyot said in an interview with the
Updated: 07/25/2011 08:07A
Court refuses to close gas case against Tymoshenko
Siry said that the criminal proceedings law does not stipulate means of proof that could confirm or refute the managerial steps taken by Tymoshenko as prime minister. "It is impossible to further handle the case, and therefore it should be closed.
Updated: 07/25/2011 07:51A
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