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Nadia Lockyer's ex has lengthy criminal record
We've also learned from law enforcement sources that the Lockyers' 8-year-old son was with his mother at the time of the alleged attack. Bill Lockyer told us his wife had checked in to the hotel after the two of them argued over the telephone.
Updated: 02/18/2012 07:58P

International Criminal court told canada complicit in torture of afghan detainees
Particular troubling in light of this information is an earlier report of NDS torture of children in the April 2010 UN document titled Children and armed conflict Report of the Secretary General, which says “Approximately 110 children have been
Updated: 02/18/2012 07:45P

Editorial: Criminal forfeiture better protects the innocent
Now he may lose it, if the Justice Department gets its way. The motel is the target of an asset forfeiture proceeding that entitles the federal government to seize property that has been used in the commission of a crime. This is true even if the owner
Updated: 02/18/2012 07:24P

Turkish Civil society groups: Lack of hate crimes legislation hurts citizens
26, where Levent ?ensever, secretary-general of the Association for Social Change (ASC), said the campaign has two goals: first, to bring a draft law to Parliament and second, to raise public awareness about hate crimes. Civil society groups and
Updated: 02/18/2012 07:06P

Students Learn How to Solve Crime
Students with the Criminal Justice Organization at WVU-P host the event and us this practice as just another way to learn. "You can never really learn enough because every time you go to a crime scene there's always going to be something different.
Updated: 02/18/2012 06:01P

Rep. Cameron Henry submits bill to crack down on white-collar crime
Cameron Henry, R-Jefferson, has filed a bill that would give district attorneys another way to prosecute white-collar crime. Henry said House Bill 99 would include 15 additional criminal law violations that would be incorporated as possible violations
Updated: 02/18/2012 05:48P

Restricting gun sales undermined by statistics
In fact, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the significant drop in crime that began in the mid-1990s coincided with more guns being in private possession and more restrictive gun laws being taken off the books. We're continuing to see this
Updated: 02/18/2012 05:45P

Judge tosses law banning sex offenders from Facebook
“Although the Act is intended to promote the legitimate and compelling state interest of protecting minors from internet predators, the near total ban on internet access imposed by the Act unreasonable restricts many ordinary activities that have
Updated: 02/18/2012 05:24P

Violence in Lyari: PAC leaders nominated in FIRs by KRC leader's brother
31/12 under section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act and sections 324 and 427/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code registered at the Kalri police station. PHOTO: NEFER SEHGAL The leaders of the banned Peoples Amn Committee (PAC) were nominated in yet another case,
Updated: 02/18/2012 05:12P

Occupy members, ACLU protest Eugene exclusion law
(AP) -- A Eugene law that's been on the books since 2008 is drawing fire from Occupy Eugene protesters and civil-liberties advocates who say it unfairly bans people from downtown before they are convicted. The Eugene Register-Guard reports
Updated: 02/18/2012 04:24P