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"West Memphis Three" may be released
Normally, when defendants plead guilty in criminal cases, they admit that they've done the crime in question. But in an Alford plea, defendants are allowed to insist they're innocent, says Kay Levine, a former prosecutor who now teaches criminal law
Updated: 08/19/2011 06:44A
NOW Hollywood reporter arrested
Scotland Yard launched fresh inquiry into alleged hacking at the tabloid called Operation Weeting in January 2011 after actress Sienna Miller and MP George Galloway claimed their phones had been hacked. Several chief executives and editors have already
Updated: 08/19/2011 06:06A
NB must put youth first
In Canada, the Youth Criminal Justice Act states: "the criminal justice system for young persons must be separate from that of adults." This includes the specific provision that youth shall be held in custody separately from adult inmates.
Updated: 08/19/2011 05:00A
Tip of the iceberg?
Dr. Shahar Eldar, an expert on criminal law at Ono Academic College, in Kiryat Ono, who has investigated mob activities in the country - and represented gang leader Asi Abutbul in a Supreme Court proceeding - says that since Israel passed its crime
Updated: 08/19/2011 04:25A
Pass on herpes, go to jail?
A 14-month sentence for transmission is draconian How should the criminal law respond to those who pass on sexually transmitted infections (STIs)? The answer to this question has become more pressing in light of the conviction of David Golding,
Updated: 08/19/2011 03:00A
Facts, not rhetoric
Once the state approves the amendment, and it survives a challenge at the Supreme Court level, the state legislature will have to examine how it wants to develop the criminal law that would be put in place to provide legal protections for the child not
Updated: 08/19/2011 12:41A
Jewish Precedents for American Laws
Previously he served on the faculty of Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. He has published more than forty law review articles and has lectured widely in the areas of legal ethics, criminal law, law and religion, Jewish law,
Updated: 08/19/2011 12:04A
Filmmaker is crusader with a camera
When he first entered the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, the largest women's prison in the country, Yoav Potash had every intention of staying behind the camera and out of the story. The La Jolla native was accompanying his friend,
Updated: 08/18/2011 09:23P
Award-winning reporter arrested in hacking scandal
James Desborough was arrested at 10.30am yesterday on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, after arriving at a south London police station. He had arrived at the station by
Updated: 08/18/2011 07:34P
IFA calls for stronger Bill to tackle intruders
THE IRISH Farmers' Association has called for the enactment of the Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Bill published last year. It was published in July 2010, and the IFA want it passed into law by the Dil and strengthened.
Updated: 08/18/2011 07:33P
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