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Justice Ganguly, noted for frank and forthright views, retires
Justice AK Ganguly retired on Thursday from the Supreme Court on attaining the age of superannuation. He was given a warm farewell by the members of the Bar and the Bench at a function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association amid standing
Updated: 02/02/2012 04:33P
State taps BI software to share criminal info, link other agencies
By Rutrell Yasin The state's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, working with the Governor's Office of Crime Control & Prevention, developed the Law Enforcement Dashboard, which gives public safety agencies access to real-time
Updated: 02/02/2012 03:55P
Law and Disorder: an interview with William Landay, author of 'Defending Jacob'
Former District Attorney William Landay (author of The Strangler and Mission Flats) has turned to familiar territory for his latest crime thriller, Defending Jacob – but this isn't just another legal procedural story. Not only has Landay drawn upon his
Updated: 02/02/2012 03:55P
NYC Marijuana Arrests Still Too High
The 50684 arrest occurred despite the fact that possessing a small amount of marijuana is not a crime in New York unless it is in public view. As Jen Carnig of the New York Civil Liberties Union has written before on this blog, NYPD officers have made
Updated: 02/02/2012 03:45P
Arpaio office lawyers to meet with DOJ
AP PHOENIX Lawyers for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office plan to meet Monday with US Department of Justice attorneys over federal accusations of civil rights violations. Joseph Popolizio, one of the lawyers representing the sheriff's office,
Updated: 02/02/2012 03:26P
Lawyer petitions against Conservative crime bill
While the bill incorporates nine different pieces of legislation, most of it pertains to criminal law and the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which Kirby said will eliminate the ability of judges to impose conditional sentences for different offences such
Updated: 02/02/2012 03:12P
"Equal Justice Under Law" Should Be More Than Just Words
Tammy Sutherland believed that a state law that declared 911 calls confidential if they didn't result in criminal charges meant what it said. So she believed the law would prevent a recorded call from years earlier about her husband shooting a family
Updated: 02/02/2012 03:07P
Just whose land is Thailand?
The Nitirat campaign to amend Article 112 of the Criminal Code, commonly known as the lese majeste law, has generated a political tempest. Calls to amend Article 112 dealing with the lese majeste law have whipped up loud opposition among a fearful
Updated: 02/02/2012 02:34P
New York City: Still The Marijuana Arrest Capital Of The World
By violating the spirit of the law, if not the law itself. Rather than ticketing low level marijuana offenders, City police for over a decade have been taking advantage of a separate statute, NY State Penal Law 221.10, which makes it a criminal
Updated: 02/02/2012 02:30P
Mexican Drug Cartels: A Transnational Killing Machine
This is now clearly about armed aggression, the interference with law enforcement and judicial processes and the rule of law, as well as the wide spread corruptive influences shaping criminal markets and facilitation of movement.
Updated: 02/02/2012 01:58P
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