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Sask. seizes ill-gotten gains
It's the biggest cash injection under the Seizure of Criminal Property Act since the law took effect on July 1, 2009. Including this most recent forfeiture, proceeds taken in under the act total approximately $502000 in cash and property.
Updated: 10/08/2011 03:52A
The slow but steady wheels of Italian justice
As for the incriminating evidence, it consisted of what was successfully argued on appeal to be a grossly insufficient amount of DNA material. Her family, from Seattle, engaged forensic and technical evidence experts, hired additional counsel,
Updated: 10/08/2011 03:30A
HART: Casey Schnack carries on Quincy family law tradition
"I'm not ordained with respect because I'm my father's daughter," Casey says of her father, known in the Adams County Courthouse for his criminal and family law work. "I don't expect this to be easy, I don't expect any favors, I don't expect people to
Updated: 10/08/2011 02:00A
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Sharon Lynn Rutherford, 29, 798 Aubrey Drive, Florence; third-degree criminal mischief, third-degree burglary and first-degree theft of property. Tommy Michael Robertson, 52, 519 S. O'Neal St., Florence; breaking and entering a motor vehicle and
Updated: 10/08/2011 01:06A
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but some counties in north Alabama have large Spanish-speaking communities and schools where most of the students are Hispanic. State Republicans have long sought to clamp down on illegal immigration and passed the law earlier this year after
Updated: 10/08/2011 12:46A
US Takes Aim at California's $1 Billion Marijuana Dispensaries
The top US prosecutors in California said they're responding to “explosive” growth in the state's marijuana trade, which feeds national distribution by people with criminal backgrounds. The industry corrupted the intent of a 1996 referendum that made
Updated: 10/08/2011 12:41A
Moves to crack down on pollution stymied by weak environment laws
There is a chapter in the Criminal Law regulating environmental crimes and specific punishment for each crime. Is that not the case? That is true. The law has specific regulations covering environmental crime, ranging from water pollution to solid
Updated: 10/08/2011 12:12A
Chinese law and political oppression
There is good reason to be skeptical about these pronouncements, given the rather depressing aspects of criminal law enforcement in China. In the five years after the 1996 Criminal Procedure Law became effective, 142 criminal defense lawyers were
Updated: 10/07/2011 11:08P
Marijuana dispensaries suspected of abusing law
LOS ANGELES — Federal officials on Friday warned dozens of marijuana dispensaries throughout California to shut down or face civil and criminal action as part of a major crackdown on the state's growing medical marijuana industry.
Updated: 10/07/2011 10:59P
STATE: Prison phone peril
Keeping cell phones out of inmates' hands requires more than a new law. Criminal penalties help, but the state also needs to ensure thorough screening at prison entrances. And those security measures should apply to prison staff as well as visitors.
Updated: 10/07/2011 10:34P
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