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Kenya: Ruling Game Changer in Race for Top Job
Here they take refuge to the fact that the law does not explicitly bar someone charged with a criminal offense from running for or holding public office unless convicted and sentenced to a jail term for more than six months.
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:44A
Kenya: How Court Reached Decision to Charge Four With Crimes Against Humanity
He maintains that the ICC is not competent because the crimes committed on the territory of the Republic of Kenya during the post-election violence of 2007-2008 in his view were serious common crimes under Kenyan criminal law, but not crimes against
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:37A
Key Dems backing Christie's 'second-chance' laws
Raymond J. Lesniak, D-Union, and Sandra Bolden Cunningham, D-Hudson, announced a package of bills they're sponsoring to reform segments of the state's criminal justice system and provide for rehabilitation of offenders. One of the bills (S-881) amends
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:24A
Goldstein, Howe & Russell, P.C. | Vartelas v. Holder and the retroactive
Holder, a case raising the question whether the US government can, based on a 1996 amendment to the immigration laws, bar a lawful permanent resident from returning to the United States after a short trip to Greece to visit his parents.
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:18A
Key Democrats backing Christie's 'second-chance' laws
Raymond J. Lesniak, D-Union, and Sandra Bolden Cunningham, D-Hudson, announced a package of bills they're sponsoring to reform segments of the state's criminal justice system and provide for rehabilitation of offenders. One of the bills (S-881) amends
Updated: 01/24/2012 12:18A
Session at HACC-Gettysburg to offer information on criminal justice degree
10 will host Criminal Justice Discover Day, a free event from 9 am to 1 pm on the campus at 731 Old Harrisburg Road. Anyone, particularly high school students, interested in criminal justice may learn how HACC's transfer associate's degree can lead to
Updated: 01/23/2012 11:08P
US Supreme Court ruling affects local law enforcement
But law enforcement can also find out where you are if you're a suspect in a crime-- without telling you. Under the Patriot Act, a magistrate judge just has to sign off on the search. In a December blanket survey of sheriffs and police departments in
Updated: 01/23/2012 11:00P
Yemen: Amnesty for Saleh and Aides Unlawful
(New York) – A new law granting amnesty to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his aides violates Yemen's international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch said today. The sweeping law provides domestic immunity from criminal prosecution for serious
Updated: 01/23/2012 10:50P
Prison policy: NSW leads while Victoria makes mistakes
Criminal justice policy - how we choose to respond to crime - plays a key role in influencing prisoner numbers. Too often, policy is driven by myths that courts don't get it right and perceptions that longer jail terms will make us safer.
Updated: 01/23/2012 10:40P
Ontario rails at price tag of federal crime legislation
In a pointed ``you-want-it, you-pay-for-it'' message to the federal government ahead of a two-day justice ministers meeting in Prince Edward Island, Meilleur said Bill C-10 will add a huge load to an already overburdened provincial justice system.
Updated: 01/23/2012 10:24P
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