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No Need to Choose Between Religious and Secular America
His books include Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and his latest is Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism from Indiana University Press. What inspired you to write it? What sparked your interest
Updated: 09/07/2011 03:31P
Juries go online and break rules
In a presentation to be delivered to an international criminal justice conference today, University of WA law school Professor John Tarrant said cases indicated that jurors were using the internet to get external information about trials despite judges
Updated: 09/07/2011 02:09P
Wednesday's Our View: New rules may be coming to nation's courts
“From social science research to the review of actual police lineups, from laboratory experiments to DNA exonerations, the record proves that the possibility of mistaken identification is real. “Indeed, it is now widely known that eyewitness
Updated: 09/07/2011 12:34P
Stratfor: 9/11 and the successful war
When Bush started talking about bringing al Qaeda to justice, he was talking about bringing them before the bar of justice. Imagine trying to arrest British sailors for burning Washington. War is not about bringing people to justice.
Updated: 09/07/2011 08:25A
Yudhoyono Moves to Eject Nazaruddin From House
The sop seems to be he will keep his position and will not be charged under criminal law or disciplined by the house on the basis he has promised not to sit for reelction... My source as you may have seen historically are usually about 80% spot on
Updated: 09/07/2011 08:24A
FTC Testifies on Children's Identity Theft
In addition to law enforcement, the FTC collects, manages, and analyzes identity theft complaints in order to target its education efforts and assist criminal law enforcement authorities. The FTC manages the Identity Theft Clearinghouse,
Updated: 09/07/2011 08:11A
Amendment in Anti-Corruption Act, 1988
The property of corrupt public servant is confiscated under the provisions of Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 1944 and Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. However, to make the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 self contained and
Updated: 09/07/2011 07:41A
Phone hacking: detectives make 16th arrest
The man was arrested at 5.55am at his home on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages, contrary to Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977, police confirmed today. He was taken to a North London police station where he remains in custody
Updated: 09/07/2011 07:01A
Phone-hack plods arrest another man in pre-dawn raid
Cops took the unnamed man into custody at a north London police station on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages, contrary to the 1977 Criminal Law Act. The arrest at 5:55am this morning was uncharacteristic for Operation Weeting.
Updated: 09/07/2011 06:31A
Civil Liberties Today
The story is different as one moves beyond domestic criminal law. Detentions at Guantnamo Bay, extraordinary renditions and brutal interrogations all tested the limits of the appropriate exercise of government power in wartime.
Updated: 09/07/2011 05:01A
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