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Torn From the Front Page: Juvenile lifers lawsuit shines needed light on
By Editorial Board | The Bay City Times A federal lawsuit in Detroit is shining a harsh, and needed, light on a consequence of an ever-hardening public attitude toward criminals in Michigan. With 358, Michigan has the nation's second-highest number of
Updated: 11/10/2011 06:00A
Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office to Give Community Presentation Tonight
Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan announced Wednesday that the Middlesex County Outreach and Education Unit, or MORE Unit, will be offering a program introducing the criminal justice system to members of the community in an effort to teach
Updated: 11/10/2011 05:44A
DNS Changer botnet smashed in major cyber crime bust
A botnet sitting on more than four million computers has been taken down by the FBI, with six suspects arrested. Two datacentres in New York and Chicago were raided and over 100 servers taken offline as the
Updated: 11/10/2011 05:43A
Businesses get crime prevention advice from pros
Good surveillance and investing in good employees can prevent a small business from becoming a victim of crime. Those were two of the tips given by a panel of law enforcement officials and attorneys at the
Updated: 11/10/2011 05:21A
Dutch to close the net on old genocide suspects
Therefore, the Dutch ministry of justice wants to expand the International Crimes Act. In this way genocide dating as far back as the entry into force of the Genocide Convention Implementation Act - 18 September 1966 - would be covered: "It is
Updated: 11/10/2011 05:04A
Wisconsin Bar Concerned About Castle Doctrine
Marquette University Law School professor Gregory O'Meara wrote on behalf of the State Bar's Criminal Law Section that this plan would provide a new legal defense for malevolent, reckless or paranoid people who shoot trick-or-treaters or repairmen on
Updated: 11/10/2011 04:37A
Share costs
Debatable as the proposed measures may be, however, it is the federal government's exclusive prerogative to legislate in matters of criminal law. And it's not as though the Conservatives suddenly sprang this legislation on an unsuspecting Canadian
Updated: 11/10/2011 04:25A
China "black jails" prompt fears of wider security crackdown
China's moves to amend criminal laws next year to effectively legitimize extra-judicial detentions of people for up to six months without due legal process could see a hardening of the nation's security crackdown in the run-up to a key leadership
Updated: 11/10/2011 04:01A
Man charged with fourteen counts of rape to face Central Criminal Court trial
17 1984 and on various dates between July 1 1983 and February 2 1985, contrary to Section 48 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and Section 2 of the Criminal Law (Rape) Act 1981 as amended by Section 21 of the Criminal Law (Rape) Act 1990.
Updated: 11/10/2011 03:55A
Immigrant detainees need legal counsel
Since then, his administration has taken some steps to deliver on that promise, such as providing detainees improved access to medical care and closing troubled facilities. But it has yet to provide the most meaningful fix: ensuring that indigent
Updated: 11/10/2011 03:51A
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