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Egypt elections: Those who cannot vote
The country's penal code, he said, stipulates that those found guilty of crimes of moral turpitude ("crime against dignity or honour”) such as fraud, bribery, supplying false testimony or information on a state document, will be barred from voting.
Updated: 10/31/2011 03:51P
Oklahoma Auto Accident Lawyers at Atkins & Markoff Alert Public to New
Since then his family has been working with the state legislature to pass Aaron's Law, and it takes full effect on November 1, 2011. In addition to the criminal exposure faced by drivers convicted of crimes under Aaron's Law, those who were reckless
Updated: 10/31/2011 03:28P
California Attorney General Kamala Harris gives public talk at Stanford Law School
When the state's chief law enforcement officer gave a public talk at Stanford Law School last week, many of the students who surrounded her were not just any law students, but her law students. Harris is teaching a seminar on criminal law and public
Updated: 10/31/2011 03:19P
US converter sponsors international IP crime conference
US-based converter The Label Printers was a Platinum Sponsor for the 2011 International Law Enforcement IP Crime Conference – held in Madrid and co-hosted by Interpol, Europol and Cuerpo Nacional de Polica, in partnership with UL.
Updated: 10/31/2011 03:02P
Death row inmates wait years before execution
In a seminal 2000 article in The Columbia Law Review called “The Overproduction of Death,” he explained where the capital justice system has gone wrong: It produces too many death sentences at trial and then throws most of them out.
Updated: 10/31/2011 02:41P
Arizona Breaks Up Drug Ring
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers estimate the ring is responsible for smuggling more than 3.3 million pounds of marijuana, 20000 pounds of cocaine and 10000 pounds of heroin into the country during that time. They estimate profits at $2
Updated: 10/31/2011 02:25P
UAE attends Interpol's 80th General Assembly in Hanoi
WAM HANOI, Vietnam, 31st Oct.2011 (WAM) - INTERPOL's 80th General Assembly opened today with a call for law enforcement to remain vigilant to both emerging and traditional forms of transnational crime as the world's largest police organization saw its
Updated: 10/31/2011 01:52P
Cain's campaign made a bad situation worse
In criminal law, the coverup is always worse than the crime. In politics, the response to the crisis can be worse than the crisis itself. Case in point? The astonishingly bungled response by Herman Cain's campaign to a report that the
Updated: 10/31/2011 01:42P
Richter trial testimony focuses on notebook
13, 2001, home invasion in Early, has been charged in the shooting death of Dustin Wehde, Dan Mosher, a retired special agent with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, testified law enforcement decided to keep information in and about the
Updated: 10/31/2011 01:34P
70 tied to Mexico drug cartel busted in Arizona
AP file The announcement in Phoenix caps a 17-month investigation culminating in a series of three "large-scale enforcement actions" tied to the probe, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Arizona Attorney General's Office and the
Updated: 10/31/2011 01:34P
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