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Holders rolls out mortgage investigation unit
By Peter Schroeder - 01/27/12 12:20 PM ET The Justice Department officially unveiled a new unit devoted to investigating criminal behavior in the housing market Friday. President Obama announced he was forming the new team during Tuesday's State of the
Updated: 01/27/2012 12:23P
IN OKs stronger sex-trafficking law
Zoeller had recommended that legislators pass the new human trafficking law before Super Bowl XLVI on February 5 due to concerns that large sporting events tend to be magnets for organized criminal rings that promote prostitution.
Updated: 01/27/2012 11:45A
Joshua Sang: When does journalism become a crime against humanity?
In contrast, under the Rome Statute and international speech crime law, one can be jailed for life. Hate speech, under the rapidly evolving international law, is viewed as part of the same chain of action that leads or paves the way to the commission
Updated: 01/27/2012 11:44A
The Unique Nature of the US Criminal System
Paul Marcus, the Haynes Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary, will give a public lecture on the US criminal justice system Feb. 2. Marcus has spoken to many judicial, bar and university groups in the US, and has lectured in numerous
Updated: 01/27/2012 11:39A
Race relations in Britain: How far have we really come?
The official inquiry catalogued a series of failures in the criminal justice system and the Metropolitan Police handling of the murder investigation. It branded the force, and British police in general, as "institutionally racist".
Updated: 01/27/2012 11:34A
Attorney client privilege and the Bureau
Criminal/Law Violations. The Bureau is required to provide to the Attorney General evidence of a potential violation of Federal criminal law. 12 USC § 5566. Presumably attorney-client privileged documents will be produced. Taxes.
Updated: 01/27/2012 11:16A
SPAIN: THE "LEGAL" WHITEWASHING OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: Trials of Judge
The new case has wide implications because Garzn's action in authorising the investigations was founded on the application of international law to the crimes of the 1936-1939 Civil War and the 1939-1975 Franco dictatorship. Garzn in fact pioneered
Updated: 01/27/2012 10:48A
Record Numbers of Incarcerated Mothers Bad News for Women, Children, Communities
And according to the Institute on Women and Criminal Justice report "Hard Hit: The Growth in the Imprisonment of Women, 1977-2004," in 1977, the United States imprisoned ten out of every 100000 women, while in 2004 that number had increased to 64 out
Updated: 01/27/2012 09:58A
Legislators want to update law in Twitter, Facebook age
The measures would expand the definition of criminal harassment to include text messaging and other forms of electronic communication. Currently, the only form of electronic harassment the law governs is that sent through email, said Del.
Updated: 01/27/2012 09:57A
North Korea Would Punish Cellphone Users As War Criminals
Genocides, obliterations of cities, murder of prisoners, egregious violation of international humanitarian law. These are crimes that will likely get a person tried as a war criminal. But using a cellphone? Um. Sure… at least, that's the case in North
Updated: 01/27/2012 09:46A
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