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Long-gun registry keeps criminals honest, so to speak
Similarly, if used guns can be bought and sold on a nod and a handshake, then criminals can much more easily obtain weapons, often from law-abiding gun owners. I don't dispute the usual anti-gun-control argument that criminals obtain firearms illegally
Updated: 11/03/2011 03:18A
NATO part of war-crimes probe
The ICC issued warrants on June 27 against Gadhafi, Seif and Senussi accusing them of crimes against humanity. Seif Gadhafi and Senussi had not been seen since and Moreno-Ocampo said his office was "galvanizing efforts" to bring the pair to justice.
Updated: 11/03/2011 03:18A
ICC still looking for Kadhafi son's surrender
The International Criminal Court has “received questions from individuals linked to Seif al-Islam about the legal conditions attaching to his potential surrender,” chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the UN Security Council.
Updated: 11/03/2011 03:15A
Glaxo to Pay $3 Billion to Settle US Sales, Avandia Cases
3 (Bloomberg) -- GlaxoSmithKline Plc agreed to pay $3 billion to settle US criminal and civil investigations into whether the company marketed drugs for unapproved uses and other matters. The terms are still being negotiated and will be finalized next
Updated: 11/03/2011 03:05A
Longtime New London prosecutor gets top job in Middletown court
State Supreme Court Justice Richard N. Palmer, chair of the Criminal Justice Commission, announced McShane's promotion Wednesday after the commission interviewed candidates at the Division of Criminal Justice headquarters in Rocky Hill.
Updated: 11/03/2011 03:04A
Public officials using legal loopholes to engage in corruption –World Bank/UN
In her foreword on the study, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Managing Director of the World Bank and now Nigeria's Minister of Economy and Finance, said “As recent history shows, these issues are not hypothetical, they are real.
Updated: 11/03/2011 03:03A
P.E.I. widow fears arrest if she wears husband's medals
According to Section 419 of Criminal Code, it is against the law for anyone other than a veteran to wear a military medal. "I knew that it was sort of frowned upon - but I didn't realize that one could be arrested for wearing them," she said.
Updated: 11/03/2011 03:03A
Africa: Rule of Law and the Kill or Be Killed Doctrine
It does not make any difference that the prisoner of war in question is a dislikeable character, an alleged tyrant, a suspected war criminal, or that he has been in power for over 40 years. It simply makes no difference at law how much one dislikes the
Updated: 11/03/2011 03:03A
Video games and taxes
Herman Cain's extremely simplistic 9-9-9 tax plan has drawn a lot of publicity of late, with a flat 9 percent tax for both corporate and residential incomes as well as a 9 percent national sales tax. But, as a recent Huffington Post article pointed out
Updated: 11/03/2011 03:03A
Synthetic drugs altered to get around law
A new law that gives concrete definitions of synthetic drug variations is helpful in investigating several synthetic drugs currently being sold in Greene County, according to Todd Myers, assistant county prosecutor, but it doesn't stop criminals from
Updated: 11/03/2011 02:58A
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