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Privacy victory
Conventional wisdom holds that a court with four reliably conservative members and one swing justice tends to back the "law and order" arguments of police while being decidedly less sympathetic to the interests of criminal suspects.
Updated: 01/24/2012 05:06A
Kenya: ICC Judges OK Election Violence Trials
The decision on January 23, 2012 of an International Criminal Court (ICC) pre-trial chamber to send cases to trial against four Kenyans opens the door to justice for victims of Kenya's 2007-2008 election violence. Kenya's authorities should take all
Updated: 01/24/2012 04:59A
Spanish judge on trial again, for Franco-era probe
Baltazar Garzon, once widely regarded as Spain's most prominent magistrates leaves the Supreme Court in Madrid Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012. Garzon is charged with overstepping his jurisdiction by ordering wiretaps of jailhouse conversations between three
Updated: 01/24/2012 04:56A
Criminal Justice May Get New Legislation Against Convicted Sex Offenders
That just leaves seventy-four more arrests to go, if those non-compliants choose to not identify their locations with the registry. Tire Swing IMG 0552 Criminal Justice May Get New Legislation Against Convicted Sex Offenders.
Updated: 01/24/2012 04:54A
Law enforcement institutions foil attempt to smuggle in 3.1 mln cigarettes
This past weekend, the State Revenue Service of Latvia (SRS), in cooperation with the Latvian Border Guard and Belarus law enforcement institutions foiled an attempt to smuggle into Latvia 3.1 million illegal cigarettes. A criminal process has been
Updated: 01/24/2012 04:54A
Kuwait: Lawyer challenges demonstration law
KUWAIT - The Criminal Court adjourned on Sunday a case in which 17 bedoon residents were charged with staging illegal demonstration in Sulaibiya, setting March 4 as the next hearing session. In a notable move, defense attorney Fawziya Al-Sabah
Updated: 01/24/2012 04:48A
Key Democrats back 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 04:14A
Ex-CIA Officer Charged in Information Leak
In a criminal complaint filed on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation accused John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer, of disclosing the identity of a CIA analyst who worked on a 2002 operation that located and interrogated Abu Zubaydah.
Updated: 01/24/2012 03:46A
Govt to return criminal silence right
Courts Service and the judiciary on the commencement of the two Acts. The new legislation represents the most significant reform of criminal law in Gibraltar's history and will bring about major changes to the way justice is administered here.
Updated: 01/24/2012 03:23A
Uhuru, Muthaura to stay in govt despite ICC indictment
So if one is accused of theft, domestic violence and outside one's official duty – Kenyan law will not ask you to resign…even if you are in Government employ, until you are convicted of the crime. And was not Muthaura a Government employee?
Updated: 01/24/2012 03:13A
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