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Ethan Hawke Tries Again on TV
Vincent D'Onofrio, who's got some experience as a TV cop from Law & Order: Criminal Intent, will play Hawke's partner. Think carefully before rejecting this one, NBC: If it doesn't work out, Hawke could very well decide to write another novel.
Updated: 09/15/2011 09:56A
Atlantic City board of education member with criminal record is removed by
George Crouch said voters knew his past when they voted for him. Officials launched background checks to comply with a new state law that prohibits residents with criminal records from serving on school boards.
Updated: 09/15/2011 09:21A
Suit Claims Public College's Drug Testing Policy is Unconstitutional
“It is unconstitutional to force students to submit to a drug test when there is zero indication of any kind of criminal activity,” Jason Williamson, a staff attorney with the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project, said in a statement.
Updated: 09/15/2011 09:14A
Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio Working On an NBC Cop Drama
The show, written by Chris Brancato (Boomtown, Law & Order: SVU and Criminal Intent), centers on two detectives, one married and one divorced, as they deal with the emotional strain of investigating murders. D'Onofrio was borderline absurd as a police
Updated: 09/15/2011 09:13A
The European Court concluded that the injunction to stay away is mandatory
While the right to be heard must give the victim, that procedural right does not confer on victims any rights in respect of the choice of form of penalties to be imposed on the offenders in accordance with the rules of national criminal law nor in
Updated: 09/15/2011 09:03A
1992 drug conviction leads to removal of Atlantic City school board member
Officials launched background checks to comply with a new state law that prohibits residents with criminal records from serving on school boards. Atlantic City Board President Shay Steele told The Press of Atlantic City (http://bit.ly/qibXwtm ) he
Updated: 09/15/2011 09:01A
Call for ICC to Investigate Pope
Now some of the victims have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Pope Benedict and three Vatican officials. One visitor to the Vatican said anyone accused of wrong doing should be investigated. "They're not above the law,
Updated: 09/15/2011 08:30A
No punishment for pensioner who stabbed intruder
Currently, the Criminal Law Act states that a person can use such force as is reasonable in the circumstance in order to prevent a crime. But there remains some ambiguity and the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act was brought in in 2008 to clarify
Updated: 09/15/2011 08:28A
ECJ - Cohabitation with a former partner convicted for domestic violence
In cases of domestic violence, the Spanish courts are obliged to impose criminal penalties, and , in all cases, an order prohibiting the perpetrator of the acts of violence from being in the vicinity of his victim is mandatory.
Updated: 09/15/2011 08:21A
Wikileaks: Bulgarian Criminal Activity Impacts Directly US
The main component of a future program will be training at two levels: 1) training of justice sector personnel (police and investigators, prosecutors and judges) on criminal law reform legislation, particularly new criminal and criminal procedure codes
Updated: 09/15/2011 08:13A
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