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12 of 32 police in Wales kept jobs after breaking law, figures show
By Kevin Leonard BBC News More than a third of the 32 serving police and support officers in Wales who broke the law in the past five years kept their jobs, figures show. Officers who committed serious crimes, including supplying drugs,
Updated: 01/25/2012 02:09A
Third-time crime law would make parole impossible for certain offenders
A concern opponents discussed was the skyrocketing costs to the taxpayers and its negative effects on the state's criminal justice system. Kathleen Dennehy, former Massachusetts Department of Correction commissioner, said her first-hand experiences in
Updated: 01/25/2012 01:30A
MPs debate Legal Aid (Women and Families)
Those pieces of evidence refer to domestic violence victims as a whole and point out their difficulties in dealing with the civil or criminal justice systems. We are dealing with a subset of that group—those who are seeking private family law legal aid
Updated: 01/25/2012 01:19A
Libya demands local trial for Al-Islam
threatening a showdown with the International Criminal Court which may decide to prosecute the son of Libya's former dictator in The Hague. According to a report on the IoL site, Minister of Justice Ali Humaida Ashour said its application,
Updated: 01/25/2012 01:17A
Justice just their size
"I know what I did was wrong, but I was having a bad day," said senior Quran Byrd, playing the defendant, who hopes to become a criminal defense lawyer. The prosecution argued for a sentence of five hours of community service and a letter of apology.
Updated: 01/25/2012 01:08A
The more DNA, the better
Andrew Cuomo's proposal to expand New York state's DNA databank. His argument is heavy on scare tactics — using such charged language as "radical proposal," "negligible law enforcement benefit" and "risk of false incrimination" — and light on truth.
Updated: 01/25/2012 01:08A
Kenya: Summary of ICC Ruling On Ocampo Six Suspects
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: 01/25/2012 01:00A
PT firm on amending Section 291
The Pheu Thai Party stands firm in proposing the amendment of Section 291 of the constitution, but will not touch Section 112 of the Criminal Code, the lese majeste law, government chief whip Udomdet Rattanasathien said on Wednesday.
Updated: 01/25/2012 12:53A
Bill would let some felons have guns
"In our criminal justice system, we rely on the ideal that a person convicted is corrected by time in jail," Manuse told the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee yesterday. "Once a person has served his time, that person should be
Updated: 01/25/2012 12:34A
Activists, clergy urge Hill leaders to rethink three-strikes proposal
Max Stern, a criminal defense attorney and the president of the Massachusetts Association for Criminal Defense Attorneys, said longer mandatory minimum sentences breed “cynicism and contempt” and do nothing to reduce crime rates.
Updated: 01/25/2012 12:26A
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