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Feds hit Kern County operations in pot crackdown
"(American Green Farmers) was totally legal under California law," Ganong said. In July, federal prosecutors also filed criminal charges against eight people arrested by Kern County sheriff's deputies earlier this year at a marijuana grow in rural Kern
Updated: 10/08/2011 07:59P
DREAM Act In California Signed Into Law; Undocumented Immigrant Students Will
This law is a slap in the face to each of these people. This law stands invalid on its very face. To reward criminal activity with funds, the state does not have, is unconsciendeouable. Are there not legal citizens in need of college assistance?
Updated: 10/08/2011 07:26P
Lawyer: PAS cannot go hudud
other legal provisions governing Islamic laws made it impossible for PAS to make its hudud plan a reality. He said the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 provided limits to the jurisdiction of Syariah Courts in meting out punishment.
Updated: 10/08/2011 07:24P
Oz fears of NZ law 'misplaced'
Professor Kevin Dawkins, a criminal law expert from Otago University, agreed that the Australians' concerns were "overstated" and their fears were "an obscure contingency". Dawkins said representative charging was particularly common in sexual cases
Updated: 10/08/2011 05:46P
TV Preview: Harry's Law
Or why a top lawyer, Adam Branch (Nate Corddry), would just quit his job in a big firm to join a patent attorney who knows nothing about criminal law. Patent work is to law what fixing ingrown toenails is to doctoring.
Updated: 10/08/2011 05:40P
MP Wants to See Single Game Sports Betting Legalized in Canada
Canada has some conflicting laws on their books with regards to gambling in that vast county. One law that is part of Canada's criminal code has been challenged by a private members bill that would repeal a small section of the code.
Updated: 10/08/2011 01:56P
Inmate's Release Brings Call for New Evidence Law
A quarter-century later, after six years of fighting for DNA tests that now almost certainly will result in the reversal of Mr. Morton's conviction, his lawyers say prosecutors withheld this and other exculpatory evidence from his original defense
Updated: 10/08/2011 01:33P
Feds Seek to Curb Calif. Medical Marijuana Industry
Several criminal cases have also been initiated, including one against a Los Angeles attorney who allegedly used his law office as a front to conduct a pot-selling business. Another case has been filed against a Florida man who moved to California to
Updated: 10/08/2011 12:31P
Race & Justice News: Blacks Three Times as Likely as Whites to be Searched in
Search our Clearinghouse of over 450 books, articles, and reports on racial disparity in the criminal justice system. The Sentencing Project is hosting a 25th anniversary celebration featuring a half-day forum
Updated: 10/08/2011 12:23P
The Federal War On Judges
"It was a great mistake to put routine drug offenses into the federal courts," he told the Senate Judiciary Committee at an unusual hearing that brought Justice Scalia and Justice Stephen Breyer to discuss with senators the judiciary's
Updated: 10/08/2011 11:07A
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