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Mr. President, Stop Protecting Bankers From These State Law Enforcement Officials
The big banks have already signed consent decrees and other documents in response to well-documented charges of perjury and filing of false documents; illegal foreclosures; criminal solicitation through the repeated use of law firms and foreclosure
Updated: 12/11/2011 11:02P
BC's new drunk driving law stuck in limbo
But drivers who fail the screening test will face penalties under the old law – ranging from a 24-hour roadside suspension to Criminal Code charges. But what about the 15000 drivers who faced sanctions under the 2010 law for failing a roadside
Updated: 12/11/2011 10:56P
Israel's AG seeks to keep press from reporting criminal investigations
Weinstein and Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman say the public disclosure of details of criminal investigations constitutes a violation of an individual's right to privacy and dignity. It "raises concerns about damage being done to the rectitude of the
Updated: 12/11/2011 10:33P
A Sewage Blunder Earns Engineer a Criminal Record
"I got a criminal record from my job—when I thought I was doing the right thing?" says Mr. Lewis, 60 years old. Mr. Lewis was caught in Washington's four-decade expansion of federal criminal law. Today, there are an estimated 4500 federal crimes on the
Updated: 12/11/2011 10:32P
Criminalizing mass-murder: 65 years after the UN's first condemnation of genocide
On December 11, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 96 (I) which declared genocide, defined as “a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups,” to be “a crime under international law which
Updated: 12/11/2011 10:29P
Gestapo's Eichmann found guilty under Israeli law
JERUSALEM: Adolf Eichmann, the Gestapo Colonel who herded millions of Jews to the Nazi death camps, was convicted yesterday as a multi-war criminal under an Israeli law that provides the death penalty. The special Israeli tribunal opened a 300-page
Updated: 12/11/2011 10:12P
Penn Law students fulfill pro-bono legal service requirements
Once, while working with the Prisoners' Education and Advocacy Project — Penn Law's central organization for criminal justice-related pro-bono work — Nair visited multiple local prisons and taught inmates lessons on civil, criminal and family court law
Updated: 12/11/2011 10:05P
He murdered his enemies. Now from his cell, he's murdering British justice by
Certainly, as Steve Gillan, general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, said: 'If this goes ahead, then the whole criminal justice system will fall into disrepute.' Intimidating : Convicted gangster Craig Gunn.
Updated: 12/11/2011 09:07P
Africa's Fatou Bensouda is new ICC chief prosecutor
Several of the cases are in court, with a verdict in the first trial - that of eastern DR Congo militia leader Thomas Lubanga - expected early next year. "For many observers, it [the case] has been going on for too long, but a lot of things needed to
Updated: 12/11/2011 07:22P
Greece: Rare Hate Crime Trial Opens
Since 2008, Greek criminal law has included a provision that makes racist motivation an aggravating circumstance in attacks, and judges have the discretion to impose the maximum penalty allowed for a crime when racist motivation is proven.
Updated: 12/11/2011 06:35P
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