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Ex-corrections chief: 'Three Strikes' should be out
The third strike receives the maximum sentence for that crime with no early release via parole. Under current state law, only a conviction of first-degree murder carries a sentence that doesn't allow for parole. Kingston Police Chief Joseph Rebello,
Updated: 02/22/2012 06:46A
Ex-corrections chief: 'Three Strikes' should be out
The third strike receives the maximum sentence for that crime with no early release via parole. Under current state law, only a conviction of first-degree murder carries a sentence that doesn't allow for parole. Kingston Police Chief Joseph Rebello,
Updated: 02/22/2012 06:46A
MYANMAR: Demand Open Trial, Retrial and Dropping of Contempt Proceedings
Both the Criminal Procedure Code and the Courts Manual make clear that where new judges take up cases, the defence has a right to request that the trial be reheard. Although Phyo Wai Aung's defence lawyers have repeatedly submitted requests at all
Updated: 02/22/2012 06:28A
OPINION: The tribal support of gargantuan crimes
President Atta Mills should release Alfred Woyome “immediately.” Why? Are the Tongu chiefs so disordered that they do not believe in law and order. That they encourage crime! Should there be anarchy, in some sort of Hobbesian state of insecurity?
Updated: 02/22/2012 06:27A
OPINION: The tribal support of gargantuan crimes
President Atta Mills should release Alfred Woyome “immediately.” Why? Are the Tongu chiefs so disordered that they do not believe in law and order. That they encourage crime! Should there be anarchy, in some sort of Hobbesian state of insecurity?
Updated: 02/22/2012 06:27A
Pdea files criminal raps vs Madrigal execs, administrators in shabu mess
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (Pdea) filed charges on Wednesday against the officers of Fuerte Holdings Inc. and the property administrators in connection with the dismantling of a methamphetamine hydrochloride laboratory on Acacia Drive,
Updated: 02/22/2012 06:17A
Summary Judgments for Feb. 22
The law made it a crime to make false claims about military honors. Below is a roundup by Summary Judgments of writings on the case, in which the intricacies of the First Amendment (a favorite topic of the Roberts court) and criminal law will both be
Updated: 02/22/2012 06:10A
Gene Polinski: Archaic criminal libel law is a bad idea in a free society
Greg Brophy has proposed repeal of his state's 19th century criminal-libel statute, telling The Associated Press that the law “tramples on the First Amendment rights of people to write and or post online things that they want to post.
Updated: 02/22/2012 06:03A
INDIA: Police demand bribes to stop torture in West Bengal
Article 39A of the Constitution of India mandates Equal justice and free legal aid -The state shall secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice, on a basis of equal opportunity, and shall in particular provide free legal aid by
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:56A
Military prosecutor: French law on genocide politically motivated and barely legal
He said this law violates the international principle of the court's justice, creates the possibility of criminal prosecution of citizens for their comments and opinions which does not correspond to the world of jurisprudence.
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:31A
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