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NH Food Freedom Bill Calls for Jailing Feds
by Dan Flynn | Jan 25, 2012 New Hampshire is the second state where some lawmakers want to use their criminal code against state employees, producers and even federal officials in order to stop federal enforcement of food safety laws.
Updated: 01/25/2012 12:10A
BAYONNE BRIEFS
23, senators Raymond J. Lesniak and Sandra Bolden Cunningham and criminal justice advocates announced the introduction of a comprehensive package of bills sponsored by the senators to create a pathway to reform of New Jersey's criminal justice system
Updated: 01/25/2012 12:03A
Corona's motion on Article 2
No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws. SECTION 14. (1) No person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due process of law.
Updated: 01/24/2012 11:58P
A criminal justice system ruled by greed
Indeed, you might face the forfeiture of your property because of a crime against you or your property. There's a lot more here. These forfeiture schemes are really bad law, but what makes it worse is that the thieves themselves are writing the laws
Updated: 01/24/2012 11:43P
Death sentencing: the expedient non-solution
By Peter Gayles In the 2009 survey of leading US criminologists published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Crimonology, 88% of that nation's top criminologists do not believe that the death penalty is a more effective deterrent to long-term
Updated: 01/24/2012 11:09P
Wrongfully Convicted Man Awarded $25 Million
"Sometimes the criminal justice system makes a mistake," said Jon Loevy, one of Jimenez's attorneys. "In this case, we proved that's exactly what happened." The jury, after sitting through a two-week trial at the Dirksen Federal Building,
Updated: 01/24/2012 11:04P
South Dakota senator: No reporting deadline for rape victims
Loetscher said she was told by a lawyer that it was too late to pursue criminal charges. Johnson says the change he's proposing in South Dakota is important because it can take victims longer than the time allowed under the law to come to grips with
Updated: 01/24/2012 10:48P
QLD to Change 'Gay Panic' Defence
The Queensland Government is set to change the state's Criminal Code to remove doubts about how and when a partial defence involving a sexual advance can be used, essentially ending the so-called “gay panic” defence. But, the Queensland Priest leading
Updated: 01/24/2012 10:41P
Kazakhstan: Opposition Activists Arrested
Kazakh authorities should immediately stop misusing criminal law to crack down on political opposition activists and other outspoken critics of the government, Human Rights Watch said. “The authorities pledged a thorough and transparent investigation
Updated: 01/24/2012 10:21P
A victory for freedom
By Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff The high court unanimously said that law enforcement officers cannot secretly attach global positioning system devices to cars to track criminal suspects without a search warrant issued by a judge.
Updated: 01/24/2012 10:18P
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