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NYC Mayor Bloomberg Should Investigate Spying and Religious Profiling by NYPD
A society committed to equal justice under the law should be deeply concerned when law enforcement spies on people merely because of their race, ethnicity or national origin. Treating mosques and ethnic businesses as potential criminal enterprises and
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:47P
Coroner Says Law Prof's Death Was Suicide
Darmer joined Chapman's full-time faculty in 2000, specializing in criminal law procedure, according to her profile page on the school's website. She taught courses on criminal procedure, advanced criminal procedure and evidence.
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:46P
Coroner Says Law Prof's Death Was Suicide
Darmer joined Chapman's full-time faculty in 2000, specializing in criminal law procedure, according to her profile page on the school's website. She taught courses on criminal procedure, advanced criminal procedure and evidence.
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:46P
Mercer Law Honors First African-American Graduate
Organizer Ashley Pruitt said that includes education and the criminal justice system. "One of the main focuses of the BLSA chapter here in Macon and just nationally is diversity and we just wanted to have something that would provoke intellectual
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:43P
Fusion Center in Tennessee draws trends on crime
(WTW) — Since opening five years ago, the Tennessee Fusion Center has become the state's centralized database for criminal information and records that aids analysts in discerning patterns in criminal activity throughout the state.
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:31P
Law on Military Medal Lying Weighed
While lying can already be a crime, in each instance the lie furthers some kind of gain, Libby said -- for example, when a person lies to get money or to obstruct justice in a criminal investigation. By contrast, Alvarez gained nothing, Libby said.
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:24P
A softer 'Caylee's Law' looks more certain
By John Kennedy Months after Florida lawmakers joined many nationwide in pushing tough new laws in the aftermath of the Casey Anthony verdict, a generally modest change in state law was approved Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee.
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:18P
As women MPAs join hands for law on wife-beaters, male bureaucrat wags petty
Civil society members felt that domestic violence is a crime, and should be referred to a court that worked in this ambit as such. To this, the irritated Sheikh retorted, “It should either be civil or criminal law. Decide on one.
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:14P
Supreme Court Takes Up Stolen Valor Case
By ADAM LIPTAK WASHINGTON — The federal government on Wednesday mounted a vigorous defense in the Supreme Court of the Stolen Valor Act, a 2005 federal law that makes it a crime to falsely say that one has '”been awarded any decoration or medal
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:06P
Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Stolen Valor Act That Bars False Claims of
McCombs came to the Court to hear a case challenging the Stolen Valor Act, a law that makes it a crime to lie about receiving military awards. "The medal of honor is the highest medal that can be awarded," said McCombs. "I believe the medal itself
Updated: 02/22/2012 05:01P
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