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Crime pays, for government, victims
Statistics indicate that the total amount collected in criminal actions totaled $2.66 billion in restitution, criminal fines, and felony assessments. The law requires defendants to pay restitution to victims of certain federal crimes who have suffered
Updated: 12/02/2011 08:08P
PM Gilani will have last word on memogate trials
ISLAMABAD: The ball will be in the court of the federal government, meaning Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, to hold or refuse trial on high treason or criminal charges if these pertinent questions raised in the Supreme Court order on memogate scandal
Updated: 12/02/2011 07:34P
Deputies' refusal to provide DNA raises legal questions
Sarasota criminal defense attorney Adam Tebrugge said providing a DNA sample seems to go with the territory of being a law enforcement officer. Agencies previously got all the fingerprints of officers at a crime scene so that all fingerprints found
Updated: 12/02/2011 07:31P
Justice Dept. Fast and Furious emails show disagreement over response to Grassley
More than 1000 pages of frenzied email exchanges were fired back and forth among Justice Department officials, as they weighed how to respond to initial inquires about the gunwalker scandal. Today, the agency turned over those subpoenaed records to
Updated: 12/02/2011 07:14P
Editorial - Double standards in the justice system
Legal experts have drawn attention to Parliament's enactment of the Criminal Procedure Bill in October. The new law limited the courts' ability to make orders prohibiting the publication of names, addresses, occupations, or other details likely to lead
Updated: 12/02/2011 07:04P
Scientists Not To Blame For Crime Lab Backlog
I now head the Idaho Innocence Project and I am a professor at Boise State University in biology and criminal justice. I have worked on 10 post-conviction criminal cases in which the use of DNA-based evidence exonerated falsely convicted individuals.
Updated: 12/02/2011 06:57P
Economic offence cell to book people causing loss to govt
The food cell and cyber crime cell and cooperative cell of the police headquarters would be under this EOC, said Abhayanand. The EOC would be located at the Biscomaun building here. It will apply the provisions of Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1944,
Updated: 12/02/2011 06:54P
Criminal liability catches up with companies
In another judgment in July 2011 of CBI vs M/s Blue-Sky Tie-up Ltd and Others, the apex court reiterated the position of law held that companies are liable to be prosecuted for criminal offences and fines may be imposed on the companies.
Updated: 12/02/2011 06:39P
Obama Drug Policy: Reforming the Criminal Justice System
More than seven million people in the United States are under the supervision of the criminal justice system. Of these, more than two million are behind bars. Making matters worse, African Americans are disproportionately incarcerated for drug offenses
Updated: 12/02/2011 06:37P
Court grants US-based lawyer bail
The offence is contrary to Section 383 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap 17 Laws of Lagos State 2004 and punishable under Section 390 (8) (b) of the Criminal Code Law Cap 17 Laws of Lagos State, 2004. Charge two read: “That you Emeka Ephraim Ugwuonye
Updated: 12/02/2011 06:36P
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