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Maine Warden Service swears in four new game wardens
The new wardens will attend the Advanced Warden Academy at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy for 12 more weeks. There, they will learn skills such as search and rescue, tracking, surveillance, recreational vehicle enforcement and crash investigation,
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:43P
FOR THE RECORD: Justice Minister addresses the Canadian Club of Toronto
I've become interested in politics at a very early age. I think I mentioned to some of you I wrote to John Diefenbaker back when I was 11 years old. It was during the Cuban missile crisis and I wrote to him just to let him know that he had my complete
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:37P
Legal standing of Harris Co. medical examiner under scrutiny
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure states, in part, “No evidence obtained by an officer or other person in violation of any provisions of the Constitution … shall be admitted in evidence against the accused on the trial of any criminal case.
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:34P
Abandoned by British justice: Student faces 10 years in US jail for setting up
Tory MP Dominic Raab, who led the campaign for a vote in Parliament on Britain's extradition arrangements, said the O'Dwyer case 'makes a mockery of British justice'. He added: 'A young student accused of internet offences that are not even crimes in
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:32P
Abandoned by British justice: Student faces 10 years in US jail for setting up
Tory MP Dominic Raab, who led the campaign for a vote in Parliament on Britain's extradition arrangements, said the O'Dwyer case 'makes a mockery of British justice'. He added: 'A young student accused of internet offences that are not even crimes in
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:32P
New legal challenge to Harris Co. medical examiner, could impact 55 years of
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure states, in part, “No evidence obtained by an officer or other person in violation of any provisions of the Constitution … shall be admitted in evidence against the accused on the trial of any criminal case.
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:17P
Arizona Governor Will Implement Medical Marijuana Law
But implementation of the law had been stalled since May, when Brewer filed the lawsuit. In a statement today, Ezekiel Edwards, director of the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project, said: “This is a great and long-overdue day for sick Arizonans who now
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:14P
Justice for others
For nearly five decades nothing much happened to make the idea of international criminal courts a reality. And for years legal experts toiled at the UN's International Law Commission over the minutiae of a possible international criminal court (which
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:08P
AG exposes cover up - Is it Betty or Duffour?
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Martin Amidu, has given the strongest hint of attempts by some functionaries of the Mills-Mahama led National Democratic Congress government and their “rented” and “criminal” media collaborators to cover up
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:05P
USDOJ: Federal Officials Close the Investigation into the Death of Native
Federal investigators visited the scene and also conducted interviews of civilian and law enforcement witnesses. Under the applicable federal criminal civil rights laws, prosecutors must establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a law enforcement
Updated: 01/13/2012 05:03P