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35 new state laws to take effect
The fetal protection law is among 35 mostly criminal laws approved earlier this year that will take effect Thursday. Other new laws include one that allows authorities to seize cars followed in serious police chases and sell them after a conviction and
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:47P
Alberta government says .05 drunk driving bill will go ahead despite BC ruling
The main thrust of Alberta's bill is to impose administrative penalties for drivers with blood alcohol levels between 0.05 and 0.08 per cent, the point where the Criminal Code kicks in.
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:29P
35 new NC laws take effect Thursday
The fetal protection law is among 35 mostly criminal laws approved earlier this year that will take effect Thursday. Other new laws include one that allows authorities to seize cars followed in serious police chases and sell them after a conviction and
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:29P
Gitmo Law Could Someday Apply to American Citizens
It's very different from yanking someone out of the criminal-justice system or picking someone up at O'Hare airport." Crucially, the Hamdi case didn't actually settle the issue of whether or not a US citizen apprehended domestically by law enforcement
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:18P
Part 1: Toward A Jurisprudence of Conscience
In a sense the pattern was encoded in the seminal undertakings at Nuremberg and Tokyo that assumed the partially discrediting form of 'victors' justice.' Surely the indiscriminate bombings of German and Japanese cities by Allied bomber fleets and the
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:14P
Part 2: Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal: Bush and Blair Guilty
We must struggle for justice and freedom from oppression, from economic hegemony. But we must remove the threat of war first. With this Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads we can never succeed in advancing the interests of our countries.
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:14P
US Attorneys Collected $6.5B In FY 2011
Despite criticism about how the US Justice Department has responded to the 2008 financial crisis, US Attorney's offices across the country certainly have made a mark in financial collections in white-collar and other cases through criminal
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:10P
Assemblyman's recorded words may haunt him in new bribe case
He was also recorded telling two FBI agents that making certain zoning changes to facilitate real-estate development in his district was "not a problem," according to the complaint. "Everything we've seen I'm in control of," Boyland told the undercover
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:09P
Australia: UN Special Rapporteur in Trafficking in Persons
For example, in some situations, assistance to victims are made conditional upon their cooperation with authorities and their contribution and to the criminal justice response. Also access to housing, medical and psycho-social support is not readily
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:09P
Do you agree with the BC Supreme Court's ruling on drunk driving?
In his decision, Justice JS Sigurdson wrote that the current law gives roadside police unreasonable powers of search and seizure over drivers whose blood-alcohol level is 0.08 per cent or higher. That can result in criminal-like consequences,
Updated: 11/30/2011 05:06P
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