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Hands-on with Telltale's Law & Order: Legacies for iPhone and iPad
Like the shows, Law & Order: Legacies breaks down into two parts: the criminal investigation and the courtroom trial. The criminal investigation highlights the detectives, all starting, like the TV shows, with a (usually dead) body.
Updated: 12/19/2011 07:47A
No legislation in Finland yet on religious-based child circumcision
In the view of Raimo Lahti, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Helsinki, the situation is legally vague, and the decision of the Supreme Court does not adequately address the issue. There are no clear guidelines on who is authorised to
Updated: 12/19/2011 07:20A
Court process to begin in Vancouver for accused Stanley Cup rioters
"Any suggestion that they're all going to be dealt with similarly and we're starting with a presumption of jail time is ridiculous," says Vancouver-based criminal law expert Eric Gottardi. Gottardi is representing some of those charged and would not
Updated: 12/19/2011 06:18A
Stanley Cup riot enters the courts, but some rioters may not face tough justice
"Any suggestion that they're all going to be dealt with similarly and we're starting with a presumption of jail time is ridiculous," says Vancouver-based criminal law expert Eric Gottardi. Gottardi is representing some of those charged and would not
Updated: 12/19/2011 06:13A
Advocates of scaling back California's tough Three-Strikes law hope for place
The group, which defends equal rights in education, employment, political representation, voting rights and criminal justice, helped scale back harsh sentences for crack cocaine violations. About 45 percent of California's third-strikers are black.
Updated: 12/18/2011 10:18P
Advocates of scaling back California's tough Three-Strikes law hope for place
The group, which defends equal rights in education, employment, political representation, voting rights and criminal justice, helped scale back harsh sentences for crack cocaine violations. About 45 percent of California's third-strikers are black.
Updated: 12/18/2011 10:18P
Downey Jr: Law like a brother to me
The pair are reunited in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, the sequel to the 2009 box office smash, where the sleuthing duo take on new criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris). The winning connection between Holmes
Updated: 12/18/2011 07:12P
State attorney: Judges broke law in Berenson case
He said that Peruvian law bars parolees convicted of terrorism-related offenses from traveling abroad, though criminal law expert Luis Lamas said the judicial authorization that Berenson obtained granted her an exemption from that law.
Updated: 12/18/2011 06:28P
FSB chief Dube Tshidi: When the law enforcer becomes the accused
Because of delays in the justice system, the regulator becomes the accused, he says. "The law enforcers are now the accused. We have people who have committed crimes, pointing fingers at the law enforcers and saying to them, 'You're the ones who are
Updated: 12/18/2011 05:08P
Police go back in time to curb crime
A LAW introduced more than 80 years ago to attack organised crime during Sydney's notorious razor gang era is being used again by police - this time to target petty crime in the suburbs. Drafted to attack the cocaine, prostitution, sly grog and illegal
Updated: 12/18/2011 04:58P
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