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Ex-law school worker pleads not guilty in embezzlement
A former employee of the Vanderbilt University law school has pleaded not guilty to stealing more than $600000 from the school. Jason Hunt appeared in Davidson County Criminal Court on Wednesday and told the judge he could not afford an attorney.
Updated: 02/06/2012 01:06A
Duch verdict worries
Victims rejoiced on Friday as the Supreme Court Chamber at the UN-backed tribunal scratched the original sentence against Duch and awarded him the maximum penalty under Cambodian criminal law – the rest of his life behind bars – for crimes the chamber
Updated: 02/06/2012 12:18A
Don Perkins: New game warden on the job
13, the New Gloucester native was sworn in at Augusta after finishing the 18-week Basic Law Enforcement Training Program at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro, the same training would-be police officers take. Bastain has been out in the
Updated: 02/06/2012 12:13A
Is Julius Malema perverting the course of justice?
The inefficiency of our justice system where peaceable people and hard-line aggressive people like Malema are fast approaching that uneven balance where it has become no more dangerous than being a inciteful hate-speech criminal than it is being a
Updated: 02/05/2012 11:59P
Red-shirt bail procedure begins
The sensitivity of the cases involving the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship was one thing, but the more serious concerns involved those cases brought under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lese majeste law,
Updated: 02/05/2012 11:31P
Washington considers collecting DNA upon arrest in serious crime
Nevertheless, the rush to expand DNA's use in criminal investigations worries privacy advocates, and courts around the country have disagreed about whether such laws violate the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects people from
Updated: 02/05/2012 11:21P
Law and sexual offence victims
IN the case for reform of Scotland's criminal law, there can be few more impressive witnesses than the chief public prosecutor. The Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland, tells The Herald today that the law is no longer serving the victims of sexual offences
Updated: 02/05/2012 10:10P
Rape victims 'let down' by rights ruling
THE head of Scotland's prosecution service has warned victims of sexual offences may not be getting justice because of recent legal changes. Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland told The Herald shifts in the balance of evidence following the landmark Supreme
Updated: 02/05/2012 10:09P
Rights activist attacked in Mbare
He was charged under Section 186 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act for allegedly “threatening to murder” Zanu PF activists, Clifford Mazarura and Clever Ntabende. According to the defence, Zvorwadza was approached by Zanu PF youths
Updated: 02/05/2012 09:38P
gun crimes spark calls for action
Yi Shenghua, a Beijing-based lawyer at Ying Ke Law Firm who specializes in criminal cases, said although China has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the world, there are still some loopholes in supervision. Dai Peng, dean of the criminal
Updated: 02/05/2012 09:16P
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