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Planned Freedom of Information Act rule criticized
| AP The Justice Department is being criticized by open government groups for proposing a regulation that would in rare instances allow federal law enforcement agencies to tell people seeking information under the Freedom of Information Act that the
Updated: 10/28/2011 03:11A
Jury into third day of deciding Joanna Yeates' killer's fate
The Honourable Mr Justice Richard Field has told the jury to put emotion aside in its deliberations. He said Tabak faced the most serious charge in criminal law, and they should assess his culpability not on their emotions but on evidence.
Updated: 10/28/2011 03:09A
Viewpoint: Edwards' case proves silliness of campaign finance laws
I hope that the Supreme Court will eventually clear up this gray area in American criminal law. The fact that we have such vague laws is inexcusable, particularly given that Edwards faces up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines, according to
Updated: 10/28/2011 02:56A
Crime-policy lessons from the late Amy Winehouse
As they say on Law & Order, the lab called. They found something. Amy Winehouse, the notorious British jazz sensation who died mysteriously in her London home on July 23, had a blood alcohol level of over five times the legal driving limit.
Updated: 10/28/2011 02:52A
The folly of symbolic laws
It declared that what one day had been perfectly safe, legal behaviour - owning a gun without telling the government about it - would the next day be considered criminal. Registration was never hugely onerous for gunowners, and it is theoretically
Updated: 10/28/2011 02:52A
Dismayed by NH gun law changes
House Bill 536 recently was passed by the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. It provides that any person in New Hampshire not incarcerated in a prison or jail or under a court order to be in a mental institution has the "natural right" to
Updated: 10/28/2011 02:41A
NY Ruling Affirms Deportees' Right to Seek Review of Convictions
The group blamed a 1996 amendment to the federal Immigration and Naturalization Act as calling into question whether finality of court action against a noncitizen in the United States was necessary before a resident could be deported.
Updated: 10/28/2011 02:28A
Canadian lawyer on shortlist for war crimes panel
Robert Petit, the Canadian Justice Department's top specialist on war crimes, said Thursday he's "honoured" to have been shortlisted to replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court - the top war crimes tribunal.
Updated: 10/28/2011 02:23A
FBI proposes new broader definition of rape, includes both genders
According to a proposed definition by the Uniform Crime Reporting Subcommittee of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services, rape would be broadened to include “penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object
Updated: 10/28/2011 01:52A
Candidate for judge sued over bill
The suit claims Mr. Davis agreed in November, 2009, to the contract for display ads in Ameritech's Yellow Pages under the listings for "Attorneys" for criminal law, drug charges, drunk driving, family law, sexual harassment, and traffic violations.
Updated: 10/28/2011 01:31A
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