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State cuts will hurt local efforts to fight crime
Readers wishing to reach the governor to express their opinion may contact him by mail at: Governor Jerry Brown, c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814; or by phone at: (916) 445-2841; or by fax at: (916) 558-3160.
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:45A
Citizens Police Academy Educates Public, Potential Cadets
Citizens Police Academies are designed to educate the public – and potential recruits – on what police officers and other law enforcement professionals do on a day-to-day basis, and explain what it's “like” to be a member of the force.
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:41A
Less Than Meets the Eye: Eyewitness Evidence and the Courts
It's true that the criminal justice system is absorbing the science of eyewitness evidence. But it is also true that different components of the system are reacting to the science in different ways and at different speeds. The police are leading the
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:40A
Government Sues South Carolina Over It's New Immigration Law
The Department of Justice challenged South Carolina's recently passed immigration law, Act No. 69, in federal court. In a complaint, filed in the District of South Carolina, the department states that certain provisions of Act No.
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:35A
Law Takes Pot Possession Out of the Courts
The law, which took effect on July 1, reduced possession of small qualities of marijuana or smoking paraphernalia to a violation on the order of a traffic ticket, which supporters said would free up law enforcement and judicial resources for more
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:33A
Operation Actual Justice
Evidently, American policymakers are increasingly receptive to the potential of international criminal justice to undergird the terms of a new form of global engagement. Ruti Teitel, a professor of international law at New York Law School and a
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:32A
Baltimore Criminal Lawyer Marc G Snyder Gets Charges Dropped in Two Major
Baltimore Criminal Defense Lawyer Marc G. Snyder announces the dismissal of alleged Attempted Murder and alleged Armed Robbery felony criminal charges against two clients in separate matters, both of whom had been incorrectly identified and jailed for
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:31A
PRAFUL BIDWAI
Jafri's widow, Zakia, pursued the case and in 2006 petitioned the State police to register a first information report (FIR) against Modi and 61 others, something only the police can do under the Indian criminal justice system.
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:29A
Florida Medical Marijuana Referendum Petition a Bit Low on Signatures: 646889
1 2011 at 12:12 PM ?If you want to see a medical marijuana referendum on the 2012 ballot, you'll have to say a prayer that House Joint Resolution 353 passes through the legislature -- it's currently in the Criminal Justice Subcommittee -- or you're
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:19A
AZERBAIJAN: Up to five years' imprisonment for uncensored religious literature?
The two laws amending the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offences were prepared by the Department for Coordination of Law Enforcement Agencies in the powerful Presidential Administration, an official of the Department told Forum 18 from
Updated: 11/01/2011 11:07A
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