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When is “resisting law enforcers” considered an offense?
Following the case in which a farmer in Hai Phong City was prosecuted, in accordance with Article 257 of the Criminal Code, for “resisting law enforcement officers” who were carrying out an unlawful decision on him last month, some legal experts have
Updated: 02/18/2012 12:53A
Funding Available for Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program
18 -- The US Justice Department's Office of Violence Against Women has announced that it expects to award a maximum of 70 discretionary grants for increasing the availability of civil and criminal legal assistance needed to effectively aid adult and
Updated: 02/18/2012 12:27A
Law and Order Lake County
An 18-year-old man was placed on probation for three years, ordered to perform 540 hours of community service and complete his high school education after he pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal recklessness. Alante L. Sharp, admitted he and two
Updated: 02/18/2012 12:25A
Leave discretion to judges
On the issue of mandatory sentences, it should be mandatory for legislators who are dealing with the criminal law to sit in a downtown criminal court for at least a month before contemplating changes in this area of the law. If they did so,
Updated: 02/18/2012 12:15A
Science should be crime labs' client, not prosecutors
Last week, San Antonio District Judge Sid Harle, who had been put in charge of the case by state Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson, formally requested a court of inquiry to investigate allegations of misconduct and possibly criminal
Updated: 02/18/2012 12:07A
Wichita Falls man says hanging would solve execution drug shortages
Cline's comments were made in the wake of a recent report in The Guardian that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is running low on one of the drugs use to carry out lethal injections in the Lone Star State that could delay the execution of
Updated: 02/17/2012 11:49P
Lancaster city man charged with sex crimes
By RYAN ROBINSON A Megan's Law offender is in prison after city police allege he had inappropriate contact with a 15-year-old girl while she was sleeping. Police on Feb. 8 received a report that Ismael Antonetti-Ortiz, 63, of 530 W. King St., Apt. 3,
Updated: 02/17/2012 11:36P
Extradition may have skipped legal requirement
The prolonged lack of public information in such a high-profile crime was highly unusual. It also caused at least one attorney to challenge whether Montana and North Dakota authorities violated federal and state laws in their handling of the
Updated: 02/17/2012 11:32P
Government Dealt Setback in Case Against Ex-Goldman Programmer
Since his arrest nearly three years ago, Sergey Aleynikov, a former programmer at Goldman Sachs, has acknowledged violating the bank's confidentiality policy by downloading source code from company computers. He also insisted that it was not a criminal
Updated: 02/17/2012 11:27P
Organized crime probe hits a wall of silence
A final copy obtained by The Canadian Press under the federal Access-to-Information Act, said the study authors tried interviewing contractors, union representatives, provincial prosecutors and law-enforcement agencies.
Updated: 02/17/2012 11:20P
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