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Detention can't be substitute for regular trial or probe: SC
"The State has been granted the power to curb such rights under criminal laws, as also under the laws of preventive detention, which therefore, are required to be exercised with due caution as well as upon a proper appreciation of the facts as to
Updated: 01/11/2012 09:45A

NY to expand DNA samples from NY offenders
Now the Cuomo administration wants to expand the statewide DNA databank to include all misdemeanor convictions under the penal code, plus all felony convictions under other statutes such as traffic and business laws. That would mean DNA samples for DWI
Updated: 01/11/2012 09:34A

Push to Reform Prison System Brings Unlikely Allies Together
He would also end the so-called war on drugs. "You can get rid of a huge body of cancerous US legal code just by eliminating the war on drugs. Ending the war on drugs would solve these problems," he says. "We are the revolutionaries.
Updated: 01/11/2012 09:29A

Leading MEP voices concern over draft EU criminal law
By Martin Banks - 11th January 2012 British MEP Sarah Ludford has voiced reservations about a draft EU law designed to give added protection to criminal suspects. The EU directive aims to improve the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings
Updated: 01/11/2012 08:54A

Stephen Fry signs petition to remove so-called gay panic defense from criminal
British author and comedian Stephen Fry has signed a global petition which aims to remove a so-called gay panic defense from law courts in Australia's Queensland. British author and comedian Stephen Fry has signed a global petition which aims to remove
Updated: 01/11/2012 08:53A

Stephen Fry signs petition to remove so-called gay panic defense from criminal
British author and comedian Stephen Fry has signed a global petition which aims to remove a so-called gay panic defense from law courts in Australia's Queensland. British author and comedian Stephen Fry has signed a global petition which aims to remove
Updated: 01/11/2012 08:53A

Mom Forces Unusual Punishment On Criminal Teen Son
"Actually the sign is hanging around my son's neck is because my son constantly chooses to keep breaking the law. Dynesha Lax says the list of her 14-year-old son's crimes is growing. She says the punishments aren't tough enough to get him to stop so
Updated: 01/11/2012 08:25A

Judge: Feds must justify secrecy of Alaska Rep. Young's investigation files
The judge, in rejecting the Justice Department's request to dismiss the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, instead ordered the agency to produce an index of its material on Young. The case was brought in April by the nonprofit Citizens for
Updated: 01/11/2012 07:11A

FAQs | Would Hobbema reserve's gang evictions be legal?
The primary piece of legislation governing life on reserves is the Indian Act, but that does not mean that First Nations are exempt from other federal laws. Aboriginals living on or off reserve are subject to the federal Criminal Code and the Charter
Updated: 01/11/2012 06:42A

FAQs | Would Hobbema reserve's gang evictions be legal?
The primary piece of legislation governing life on reserves is the Indian Act, but that does not mean that First Nations are exempt from other federal laws. Aboriginals living on or off reserve are subject to the federal Criminal Code and the Charter
Updated: 01/11/2012 06:40A

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