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Shooting not about gun law
The New Year's Day shooting of a Mt. Rainier National Park ranger was a terrible tragedy, but it was caused by the criminal actions of a deeply disturbed individual, not by a 2010 law allowing firearms into national parks (“Police identify body found
Updated: 01/12/2012 05:36P
Former Congressman Sentenced for Obstructing Justice, Acting as Unregistered
“IRS CI plays a significant role in the government's counter-terrorism efforts,” said Stephen Boyd, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation. “Our primary focus is to attack the financial infrastructure of terrorism, its organized criminal
Updated: 01/12/2012 05:13P
Vanderbilt professor reacts to video of alleged Marines in Afghanistan
Newton, a West Point graduate and former professor there, helped revamp the laws and procedures for US military commissions and helped establish the Iraqi Special Tribunal and led the training in international criminal law for its judges.
Updated: 01/12/2012 05:10P
Law enforcement using social media to fight crime
Dr. Jeffery Walker, Professor of Criminal Justice at UALR says the public must remember the basics of civil rights. "You have to take it as it's meant. For example, you can't confuse somebody who pops up on a police website as arrested as being
Updated: 01/12/2012 05:00P
Russia to introduce new soccer match fixing laws
MOSCOW - Russia is to introduce a new law before parliament which would for the first time allow criminal prosecution for match-fixing in football in the country, officials said on Wednesday. A proposal from Federal Audit Chamber chairman Sergei
Updated: 01/12/2012 04:55P
Caylee Anthony bill clears panel
(AP) -- A bill inspired by the Caylee Anthony case is advancing in the Florida Legislature, just don't call it "Caylee's Law." The Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Thursday approved the measure that would make it a felony to give police false
Updated: 01/12/2012 04:36P
OC official contributes to public safety effort
Recommended strategic reforms in criminal justice policy are projected to save $249 million during the next decade, making it possible to allocate more than $40 million to local law enforcement agencies like the Edmond Police Department.
Updated: 01/12/2012 04:19P
Kamins named new NYC criminal court administrative judge
He was later a partner in the criminal defense firm Flamhaft Levy Kamins Hirsch & Rendeiro. Kamins currently teaches New York criminal practice as an adjunct at Brooklyn Law School and Fordham University Law School. He served as the president of the
Updated: 01/12/2012 03:39P
A Comprehensive Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) System Requires Action
—Scott G. Erickson has worked in law enforcement for the past decade, and has studied the proliferation of homegrown terrorism and the response by domestic law enforcement. He holds a master's degree in criminal justice studies from the University of
Updated: 01/12/2012 03:37P
Healing Wounds: Seeking Closure for the 1915 Armenian Massacres
When the UN expert body, the International Law Commission, put into words what was done at Nuremberg it explicitly affirmed the Roman dictum prohibiting retroactivity: no crime without law (nulla crimen sine lege). Such a dictum touches on a
Updated: 01/12/2012 03:11P
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