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BRIEF: Poland's rightists want death penalty back
PiS is planning to lobby for an amendment to criminal law so that especially brutal murders become punishable with death. Currently, murderers spend seven years in prison on average, Kaczynski said. "This is a situation that has to be changed," he said
Updated: 11/25/2011 04:47P
New Boozing Guidelines Released
Kate Heartfield of the Ottawa Citizen wonders why we need a polygamy law at all, considering that there are enough other crimes documented in Bountiful for the Crown to sink its teeth into. "This is a question of criminal law, not social policy," says
Updated: 11/25/2011 04:32P
Mexico: Massive Civil Lawsuit at International Criminal Court Seeks Justice
On November 25, 2011, Mexican human rights lawyer Netzai Sandoval filed the biggest civil lawsuit ever presented to the International Criminal Court, demanding a probe for those responsible for systematic human rights abuses and crimes against humanity
Updated: 11/25/2011 04:26P
Ethnic variation in jail sentences, Guardian study finds
Frances Done, chair of the Youth Justice Board, who is working with the Magistrates' Association on disparities in sentencing, told the Guardian that she fears the "disproportionality appears to be getting worse". She added: "As the numbers in [youth]
Updated: 11/25/2011 04:17P
Study points to ethnic variation in jail sentences
Frances Done, chair of the Youth Justice Board, who is working with the Magistrates' Association on disparities in sentencing, told the Guardian that she fears the "disproportionality appears to be getting worse". She added: "As the numbers in [youth]
Updated: 11/25/2011 03:42P
Bristow to run for district judge
While Bristow spent most of his career in criminal law, he said he was admittedly weak in civil law. That's where the last three years in private practice have really helped. “I enjoy doing private practice,” he said. “It exposed me to a lot of aspects
Updated: 11/25/2011 03:17P
Sex-Assault Cases Treated With Greater Urgency Than in Past
But Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit group, said confirmed cases of abuse have declined over the past 20 years, because perpetrators are being more aggressively identified, imprisoned and
Updated: 11/25/2011 02:42P
Criminal defendants find an unlikely friend in Justice Scalia
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has led the charge in reversing convictions, citing the 6th Amendment and the right to challenge witnesses. For him there are no shades of gray. Justice Antonin Scalia advocates a strict adherence to
Updated: 11/25/2011 02:18P
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Yesterday, Robert Bauman, the chief justice of the BC Supreme Court, ruled that Canada's law against polygamy is a reasonable limit on the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. The Toronto Star's editorial board sides with Bauman's "eminently
Updated: 11/25/2011 01:59P
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Kate Heartfield of the Ottawa Citizen wonders why we need a polygamy law at all, considering that there are enough other crimes documented in Bountiful for the Crown to sink its teeth into. "This is a question of criminal law, not social policy," says
Updated: 11/25/2011 01:59P
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