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Prison Privatization Plan Will Go to Budget Panel
"In my opinion a subject as complex as prison privatization should have been referred to the substantive committees that oversee this subject matter (ie Criminal Justice, Governmental Oversight and Accountability and Criminal & Civil Justice
Updated: 01/21/2012 12:00A
Audit Notes: Justice's Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author
The evidence, including records from federal and state courts and local clerks' offices around the country, shows widespread forgery, perjury, obstruction of justice, and illegal foreclosures on the homes of thousands of active-duty military personnel.
Updated: 01/20/2012 11:52P
7 charged as FBI closes a top file-sharing site
In what authorities have called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the FBI seized Megaupload and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise based on Internet piracy.
Updated: 01/20/2012 11:49P
Know the law; avoid the guys with the guns
I appreciate the Standard-Examiner giving me an opportunity to write about legal issues that affect all of us. A legal column deals in the pain of living — birth, marriage, divorce, bills, accidents, crimes and death. So there are lots of topics.
Updated: 01/20/2012 10:50P
Libel and free press
It is a criminal offence as well as a civil wrong punishable in damages; in short, a tort. The criminal law is constitutionally void. It is embodied in Macaulay's Penal Code enacted in 1860, (Sections 499 and 500). The civil law is not codified in a
Updated: 01/20/2012 10:28P
Search ends at Dotcom Mansion; police seize computers, artworks and 18
Police have seized a variety of equipment including computers and documents for the purposes of evidence. Assets including luxury cars and artwork have been restrained and passed to the control of the Official Assignee.
Updated: 01/20/2012 10:19P
Honour killing to be made non-bailable offence: Panel
“Such a move will be against the cardinal principles of jurisprudence accepted and absorbed into our criminal justice system. If burden of proof has to be shifted in such a case, logically, it will have to be done in a large number of other heinous
Updated: 01/20/2012 10:00P
Court to hear case of theft from Palace Museum
Previously, the death penalty would have been possible, but it was abolished for larceny by an amendment to the Criminal Law, which took effect on May 1, said Han Yusheng, deputy director of the criminal law research center at the Renmin University of
Updated: 01/20/2012 09:21P
Kansas Law on Sodomy Stays on Books Despite a Cull
That would be the “criminal sodomy” statute, which prohibits same-sex couples from engaging in oral or anal sex. The law was rendered unenforceable nearly a decade ago by a United States Supreme Court ruling, but it remains enshrined in the state's
Updated: 01/20/2012 08:50P
Founder of Shuttered Web Site Sought Limelight
In what the American authorities have called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the FBI shut down Megaupload.com and instigated the arrest of Mr. Dotcom and three other people in New Zealand.
Updated: 01/20/2012 08:39P
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