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Portsmouth Herald to receive First Amendment Award
Led by award-winning investigative reporting by Elizabeth Dinan, the newspaper also prompted two law changes that now give the public the right to see information about traffic accidents involving public employees or officials.
Updated: 10/09/2011 07:14A
Law protecting girls from girls
A person must feel threatened physically or emotionally to petition for a protection order; a criminal offense is not required, Strefelt said. Emergency protection orders must be addressed within one day, Strefelt said. The Ohio General Assembly passed
Updated: 10/09/2011 07:01A
Law to prevent teen dating violence finds different use
A person must feel physically or emotionally threatened to petition for a protection order; a criminal offense is not required, Strefelt said. Emergency protection orders must be addressed within one day, Strefelt said. The Ohio General Assembly passed
Updated: 10/09/2011 06:30A
Morton Case Sparks Calls for Texas Evidence Law Reform
A quarter-century later, after six years of fighting for DNA tests that now almost certainly will result in the reversal of Morton's conviction, his lawyers say prosecutors withheld this and other exculpatory evidence from his original defense lawyers
Updated: 10/09/2011 06:10A
Are criminal sentences too lenient?
Law enforcement and judicial officials have different perspectives on how much punishment fits the crime. / GNS Graphics Network MANITOWOC — Tesha A. Kono, a 38-year-old Manitowoc woman who faced charges, including four heroin-related felonies,
Updated: 10/09/2011 05:14A
New Jersey Attorney Hanan M. Isaacs Featured Speaker At Law Review CLE: Social
Michael B. Roberts is an associate with Jack Venturi Law. He primarily practices in criminal and municipal court matters. Some of the recent cases he has handled involve kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, Megan's Law, armed robbery, DUI,
Updated: 10/09/2011 04:01A
Arizona prison sentences among toughest for many crimes
A study soon to be released by the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission will report that Arizona's murder rate rose last year, and that rape has risen over the last decade, even though both those rates have fallen nationally. Over the past few years,
Updated: 10/09/2011 03:45A
More work to be done on bullying
But these non-criminal situations can also have consequences under the law. In New Jersey, we have the nation's oldest and most comprehensive state civil rights law — the Law Against Discrimination (LAD). The LAD deals with many types of discrimination
Updated: 10/09/2011 03:10A
Domestic violence victims can get help
This law, which took effect on Nov. 11, 2010, entails three different offenses that make it a crime to cut off a person's breathing or blood circulation. The misdemeanor count is termed Criminal Obstruction of Breathing, and involves putting pressure
Updated: 10/09/2011 03:07A
Maintain public safety without breaking law
The bylaw, Coakley's office said, conflicts with a 1971 state law which made public drunkeness neither a civil nor criminal offense. "Despite the town's strong public policy arguments in favor of the proposed bylaw, the conflict between the proposed
Updated: 10/09/2011 03:01A
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