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Golden decided she would study criminal justice and pursue a job in the judicial system as a way to help others. “I saw it on TV,” Golden said. “They said you could take one class a month. That's what sold me – the one subject a month was perfect
Updated: 12/04/2011 03:14A
Law Enforcement Agencies Around State Employ Officers Despite Cases of Serious
While he was surprised to hear the breadth of allegations against Bosque, Mike Crews, director of the FDLE's Criminal Justice Professionalism Program, said the state had met its obligations. "Based on the cases as they were presented to us,
Updated: 12/04/2011 03:03A
Richard Alderman: 'I will be looking to play a role somewhere in the anti
By introducing plea bargains into the criminal justice system he infuriated the judiciary. A fierce rearguard battle to save the SFO from being subsumed within the National Crime Agency may have been successful but it alienated him from certain
Updated: 12/04/2011 02:30A
Kenya: Bashir Issues Ultimatum
To this extent, Justice Nicholas Ombija's ruling is sound, and I don't see how any court can set it aside." But a source within government offered a different view: "Under international law a sitting head of state enjoys complete immunity from criminal
Updated: 12/04/2011 02:27A
Gaps in sex trafficking laws
Last Christmastime he fielded a call from a distraught Lincoln woman who had seen her daughter come home with bruises and found evidence she was being advertised on the Internet for sex. Riskowski, executive director of the Nebraska Family Council,
Updated: 12/04/2011 02:13A
Mary Ann Lindley: Drug law skips a beat in due process
In an effort to boost the war on drugs, however, the Florida Legislature carved out an exemption in 2002 in drug-related criminal statutes. It requires the accused to demonstrate his or her innocence — that they had no "intent" to commit a crime.
Updated: 12/04/2011 02:04A
SFO chief calls for law to allow bank prosecutions
Financial institutions and individuals should be subject to criminal prosecution for the kind of "reckless" behaviour that contributed to the financial crisis, according to the outgoing director of the Serious Fraud Office. Richard Alderman has called
Updated: 12/04/2011 02:01A
New chief judge for Missoula Municipal Court pledges to listen on bench
Jenks, who grew up in Ogden, Utah, said she particularly enjoyed jury trials as a criminal lawyer. She liked criminal law and search and seizure cases before juries. "It's one challenge after another, and you have to be on your game, and I enjoy that,"
Updated: 12/03/2011 11:32P
Presidential Forgiveness Heavily Favors Whites
Current and former officials at the White House and Justice Department said they were surprised and dismayed by the racial disparities, which persist even when factors such as the type of crime and sentence are considered. "I'm just astounded by those
Updated: 12/03/2011 11:27P
Community Commentary: California needs to change mandatory-minimum sentencing
In recent years and months, we have seen state legislators turn to makeshift measures and budget stopgaps because politics get in the way of real prison reform. Politicians frame the prison reform debate in the polarized manner of "hard on crime"
Updated: 12/03/2011 11:16P
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