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FBI, Brockton-area law enforcement target child pornography
By Maria Papadopoulos Statistics recently released for 2011 show that police and prosecutors working with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, formed in 2000, made 60 arrests and executed 235 state and federal search warrants.
Updated: 02/16/2012 06:27A
Mandatory minimums
So ignore any buzz that Ottawa's get-tough-on-crime approach, featuring laws with new mandatory minimum sentences, has been fatally compromised by an Ontario judge this week striking down one such penalty as being "cruel and unusual punishment" under
Updated: 02/16/2012 06:17A
Prostitution law passes first Knesset hurdle
By RUTH EGLASH 02/15/2012 18:59 Bill passes first reading in Knesset plenum, to be forwarded to parliamentary c'tee for adjustments before becoming law. By Edgard Garrido / Reuters A bill that will make paying for sex services a criminal offense passed
Updated: 02/16/2012 06:11A
State panel censures Lyme town justice
According to the commission's findings, the protective orders were unlawfully issued because there were no pending criminal matters against Mr. Montgomery and he had no knowledge of the neighbors' communications with Justice Curtis that led to the
Updated: 02/16/2012 05:54A
Ogaden Refugees' Legal Claims May Put South Africa On the Spot
To request the ICC prosecutor to initiate an investigation proprio motu- under Article 15 of the Rome Statute of the ICC into war crimes and crimes against humanity. Hennie Strydom, an international law expert at the University of Johannesburg,
Updated: 02/16/2012 05:54A
Law Enforcement Agencies Partner with Metropolitan State University, Service
The goal is to provide officers with the necessary skills to: Metropolitan State University is a premier provider of baccalaureate education for police officers in the state of Minnesota through its School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice.
Updated: 02/16/2012 05:36A
Indonesia stresses importance of legal cooperation with Hong Kong in asset
"Therefore, we need to ratify the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China concerning Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters that had been signed on April
Updated: 02/16/2012 05:35A
Mixed signals sent on minimum sentencing
That's enough jurisprudence to feed the fears of critics of the Conservative government's "tough-on-crime" policies — and also to bolster the arguments of those who say Parliament sets the law of the land, not the courts.
Updated: 02/16/2012 05:31A
Mixed signals sent on minimum sentencing
That's enough jurisprudence to feed the fears of critics of the Conservative government's "tough-on-crime" policies — and also to bolster the arguments of those who say Parliament sets the law of the land, not the courts.
Updated: 02/16/2012 05:31A
Anti-terror measures resurrected in Senate
Bill S-7 would amend the Criminal Code, the Canada Evidence Act and the Security of Information Act to allow for investigative hearings, a measure that expired in 2007. Previous attempts to reinstate them died on the order paper at the dissolution of
Updated: 02/16/2012 05:26A
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