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With Three Recent Hires, Zuckerman Spaeder Builds Criminal Defense Practice in
They are back together again at Zuckerman Spaeder in New York, where the lawyers are building a criminal defense practice for the law firm, according to a press release and the New York Times DealBook blog. Cohen is a former top aide to Gov.
Updated: 10/05/2011 10:33A
NEW: AG Bill Schuette wants to crack down on pot 'profiteers'
As the state attorney general, Schuette has led the charge to shut down the hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that have blossomed over the past two years in Michigan. A mass shutdown followed a state Court of Appeals ruling in August out of
Updated: 10/05/2011 10:30A
NEW: AMANDA BURGESS-PROCTOR: Medical marijuana laws expose inconsistencies of
She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. Her research interests include intimate partner violence, criminological theory and criminal justice policy. She has authored more than a dozen journal articles,
Updated: 10/05/2011 10:28A
Police admit cutting corners
Law Institute of Victoria president-elect Michael Holcroft said many senior police appeared to have have been treating the issue as an "administrative function". "It is simply beyond belief that Victoria Police had admitted during a serious criminal
Updated: 10/05/2011 10:28A
Police oversight throws doubt on criminal cases
HAMISH FITZSIMMONS: Police command says it's reminded senior officers of the importance of preparing affidavits correctly, but lawyers for the defence believe the consequences of this will be felt right across the criminal law, especially in areas like
Updated: 10/05/2011 10:12A
New Californian Law Broadly Defines Crimes
"Then you go back to vehicular manslaughter: Was it a crime in which there was an unfortunate incident with a DUI? The person made a one-time mistake?" Pazin said. "Does that mean we incarcerate that person forever?" Pazin and others also argue that
Updated: 10/05/2011 09:44A
Make a law that compels bureaucrats to do their jobs
What we need is a law that compels bureaucrats to help citizens properly. In some countries these laws go so far as to make it a criminal offence for a bureaucrat not to help. These laws even dictate that even if the information asked for had nothing
Updated: 10/05/2011 09:41A
When it's OK to spy on employees
Employees should have no expectation of privacy when they send personal emails or surf the Internet at work. Given the illegalities Internet and email use can lead to, including downloading pornography, defamation, breaching confidentiality, etc.,
Updated: 10/05/2011 09:24A
Majority did not pass draft law of Kyrylenko on “article of Tymoshenko”
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine did not include into the agenda the draft law “On Introducing Amendments into Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine” (concerning decriminalization of responsibility of some officials). This draft law was submitted by
Updated: 10/05/2011 09:20A
Lorne Gunter: The police's double standard on gun safety
The storage laws were added to the Criminal Code because the federal government believed guns were so dangerous that although law-abiding citizens would be permitted to own then, the authorities had to do all they could to keep them from falling into
Updated: 10/05/2011 09:02A
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