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A federal intrusion?
Let's hope so. The alternative might be that the two provinces will tell their police forces not to place a high priority on the sort of cases Ottawa is targeting, and Canada will move away from being country with uniform application of its criminal law.
Updated: 11/05/2011 03:56A
Woman gets life for 1992 murder of friend
James said nothing and appeared calm and emotionless before Justice Catherine Bruce imposed the mandatory 25 years to life sentence and sheriffs led her away. Outside court, Yang said James had "no conscience" when she attacked Wakabayashi with box
Updated: 11/05/2011 03:46A
Goldstein, Howe & Russell, P.C. | Argument preview: High-tech policing
Milyard At 10 am next Tuesday, the Supreme Court will return to the constitutional status of advanced technology, when used by police to investigate crime. The case is United States v. Jones (docket 10-1259). Arguing for the federal government will be
Updated: 11/05/2011 03:30A
Take conditions off conditional sentences
I do not know who invented the conditional sentence, but whoever it was did a great service to the administration of criminal law in this country. A conditional sentence is actually a sentence of imprisonment but the "imprisonment" can be served in the
Updated: 11/05/2011 03:20A
Criminal Court, Nov. 4
Baldwin also sentenced Startzel to pay costs, $100 to the Substance Abuse Education Fund and $289 restitution to the state police crime laboratory in Bethlehem, and to submit a DNA sample to law enforcement authorities. Startzel pleaded guilty on Sept.
Updated: 11/05/2011 03:11A
Changes to law could force terminations of school employees with criminal records
Act 24 of 2011 changes provisions of the state's background check law for school employees and expands the list of crimes that call for a lifetime ban on school employment. It also creates new 10-, five- and three-year bans on school employment for
Updated: 11/05/2011 03:06A
New Jersey Appeals Court Limits Sex Offender Monitoring
The Appellate Division's holding that intensive sex offender monitoring cannot be retroactively applied to individuals who were convicted before its passage is a clear victory for civil libertarians and criminal justice advocates.
Updated: 11/05/2011 02:36A
Criminal Defense Attorneys Greenberg and Greenberg to Teach CLE on How to
RIVERSIDE, CA, November 05, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Attorneys Daniel and Philip Greenberg have experienced criminal law from both sides. Before becoming defense attorneys, they were district attorneys prosecuting the accused.
Updated: 11/05/2011 02:31A
Rick Flores Responds to Mace Demonstration
By KGNS News An incident at Cigarroa High School in a criminal justice class has prompted some complaints from parents. And now the district says they're investigating. A letter from a parent claims criminal justice teacher, Rick Flores,
Updated: 11/05/2011 02:24A
Judge avoids charges tied to beating video
Angela Dodge, a US attorney's office spokeswoman, said prosecutors determined there was no federal crime depicted on the 2004 video of Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams. The decision came a day after the local district attorney decided
Updated: 11/05/2011 02:16A
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