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Immigration Detainer Law Sparks Debate
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who stands by the ordinance approved last fall, has instead called for the Judicial Advisory Council, which she created last July to reform the county's criminal justice system, to conduct a six-month study
Updated: 02/10/2012 02:01A
Lawmakers grapple with court ruling on legal representation
4 that the initial appearance before a court commissioner is a criminal proceeding under the Maryland Public Defender Act, and therefore defendants have a right to legal representation at that initial bail hearing. Bills have been filed to amend the
Updated: 02/10/2012 01:31A
Okla. lawmakers tout criminal justice plan
Oklahoma has the 12th highest violent crime rate in the nation, the highest female incarceration rate and third-highest overall incarceration rate, officials said. At the same time, local law enforcement officers per capita are down in nearly all of
Updated: 02/09/2012 11:31P
Criminal Court judges drop extra insurance benefits
"That money can be used for items that are more essential to the operations of the court and the criminal justice system," said Goyeneche. Criminal court judges have maintained they weren't breaking any laws. They said since the funds were
Updated: 02/09/2012 11:27P
Indonesian Commission Seeks Rehabilitation, Not Detention
"We are closely guarding the 'juvenile justice system' bill, which lawmakers are now deliberating, to ensure that it contains no article allowing detention and imprisonment of children," said Apong Herlina, a member of the eight-year-old Indonesian
Updated: 02/09/2012 10:45P
Proposed Law Would Keep Children from Custody of Sex Criminals
Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- A state lawmaker says something that seems like common sense, needs the force of law. Charleston County Representative Chip Limehouse, a Republican, proposed a bill to prevent someone convicted of criminal sexual conduct,
Updated: 02/09/2012 09:33P
DHS appoints public advocate for illegal immigrants
The agency that is supposed to enforce the laws of the land against them gave the stakeholder community an ombudsman. Maybe the government should have public advocates for other “stakeholder communities” such as organized crime, drug cartels,
Updated: 02/09/2012 09:17P
Maine's chief justice changes bail rules for domestic violence suspects
“By law, you have mandated policies by which criminal history records will be relayed to the bail commissioners. To make well-informed decisions, they must have the information. Too often, they are not receiving the reports.
Updated: 02/09/2012 08:26P
Politicians exchange salvos over warning shots
interim Liberal leader Bob Rae demanded of the justice minister. “Does he not understand the danger of promoting vigilante justice in our society?” Nicholson fired back that Liberals can't figure out who are the real victims of crime.
Updated: 02/09/2012 08:10P
N1.3bn NFF scam: You've a case to answer, Court tells Lulu, Ogunjobi, others
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, held that four ex-helmsmen of the Nigerian Football Federation, Mr Taiwo Ogunjobi, Sani Lulu, Uchegbulam Amanze and Bolaji Ojo-Oba, have a criminal case to answer pertaining to alleged role they played
Updated: 02/09/2012 08:04P
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