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Omnibus crime bill creating a storm
Covering nine bills that failed to pass during the last minority government, Bill C-10 – the Safe Streets and Communities Act – enacts the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and amends acts that involve drug trafficking, paroles and pardons and young
Updated: 10/26/2011 11:55P
Community Groups Ask City Council to Toughen Law
Jonathan Beard with the Columbus Compact Corporation is asking the Council provide updated tools necessary for the police and courts to combat open drug sales, criminal gun activity, and other crimes in communities. Beard says so far no action has been
Updated: 10/26/2011 11:41P
DA Candidates (Except Gascon) Meet In Final Debate
Now Gascon is running for election to the office and is facing opposition from Alameda County prosecutor Sharmin Bock, defense attorney Bill Fazio, former police commissioner and criminal justice scholar David Onek and State Bar Criminal Law Advisory
Updated: 10/26/2011 11:27P
TAMIU Held Symposium On Drugs Laws And Immigration
By KGNS News The symposium covered drug law reform and immigration law for criminal defense. There were guest speakers for students and anyone from the public interested. Retired Judge Jim Gray from the superior court in California was one of the
Updated: 10/26/2011 11:10P
Fracking towns see crime, carousing surge amid gas boom
In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots
Updated: 10/26/2011 11:09P
Spate of hate crimes target gays
A handful of anti-gay hate crime incidents have caught the attention of San Francisco law enforcement officials in recent weeks. In the most recent case, the San Francisco Police Department is investigating an incident that occurred
Updated: 10/26/2011 10:50P
China Issues White Paper on Socialist Legal System
According to the white paper, the system is an organic integration of the related laws of the Constitution, civil and commercial laws, administrative laws, economic laws, social laws, criminal laws, litigation and non-litigation procedural laws and
Updated: 10/26/2011 10:48P
SHERIFF'S CANDIDATE: Steven S. Smith
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) is listed in the opponent's website and in the Greene County Record. The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the Greene County School Board say it doesn't exist here, nor does Greene have
Updated: 10/26/2011 10:15P
Gaddafi's Son and Brother-In-Law May Surrender
has proposed surrendering to the International Criminal Court for war crimes against humanity, says Reuters. Along with al-Islam is Abdullah al-Senussi, Gaddafi's brother-in-law and former intelligence chief to the deposed tyrant.
Updated: 10/26/2011 10:06P
Oz left behind on data breach laws: Verizon
"There are four parties involved in a cybercrime: the victim, the criminal, the investigator and law enforcement. No one — none of those four parties — talk about it, with the rare exception of the criminal. "The criminal gets paid, they don't want the
Updated: 10/26/2011 09:41P
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