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Sex-trafficking law clears Indiana Senate committee
The Senate's criminal code committee voted 9-0 in support of the bill that supporters say would make it easier to prosecute sex trafficking cases involving victims younger than 16 and broaden the law for cases with older victims.
Updated: 01/06/2012 01:27A
End to lab's federal funds means higher county costs
The Sam Houston State University Regional Crime Lab, which is operated by the university's College of Criminal Justice and located in The Woodlands, started taking evidence from five counties, including Montgomery, in November 2010.
Updated: 01/06/2012 01:24A
Law and Order
LOUIS COUNTY > Man charged with killing son • Ernest Maxwell Sr., 62, was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the killing of his son. Hill, of the 200 block of Northport Hills Drive, was held in lieu of $250000 bail
Updated: 01/06/2012 01:03A
Count-Down to the Crime Great Escape for Prez. Kuffour
Mr. Kuffuor was alleged to have committed copious economic crimes through abuse of law and due process to enrich himself, his family and cronies which would have attracted the brush of the law in any serious country. Unlike his predecessor, Mr. Kufuor
Updated: 01/06/2012 12:36A
Legal costs to rise with court ruling
Maryland “is going to have to have a public defender on call at every commissioner's side at all times, and that is going to be expensive,” said Steven D. Silverman, a prominent criminal defense lawyer and principal in one of the state's largest law
Updated: 01/06/2012 12:30A
Cartoons, classics 'can be child porn' under Northern Territory law
Under the NT Criminal Code, any offensive material that "depicts, describes or represents" children engaged in sex, being subjected to torture or in a demeaning context is outlawed. Magistrate John Lowndes says it seems to him the act is broad enough
Updated: 01/06/2012 12:27A
Proposed abortion debate is unnecessary and unwanted
However, Woodworth is just mistaken about the law. Criminal Code section 223(1) — the “unusual statute” to which he refers — states that “a child becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state,
Updated: 01/06/2012 12:16A
Guest View: Put teeth into public records law
We've seen countless elected officials violate public records laws to hide acts ranging from criminal to embarrassing, but Mitt Romney's actions as governor show that in Massachusetts you don't have to do anything illegal to subvert the public's right
Updated: 01/06/2012 12:15A
AP source : Obama administration plans change for some immigrants applying for
To that end, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced plans last year to review some 300000 pending deportation cases in an effort to target criminal illegal immigrants, repeat immigration law violators and those who pose a national
Updated: 01/06/2012 12:09A
Steptoe & Johnson | E-Commerce Law Week, Issue 688
protection challenges posed by new technologies; and the Police and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive, directed at harmonzing national laws regarding data processing and the sharing of data between law enforcement agencies across the EU.
Updated: 01/06/2012 12:07A
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