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OUR OPINION: Property taxes are law, not crime
Property taxes are not extortion, and income and sales taxes are not robbery, because taxes are legal while extortion and robbery are crimes. That's the difference. Are property taxes are akin to theft, as supporters of Measure 2 in North Dakota argue?
Updated: 02/22/2012 11:19P
Crime at US public schools on the decline
The number of violent deaths declined to 33 in the 2009-10 school year, the lowest number on record since the agencies began collecting data in 1992, according to data released by the US Department of Education and the Department of Justice on
Updated: 02/22/2012 10:54P
VN joins war on child sex tourism
Legal expert Le Thi Hoa from the Justice Ministry's Department of Criminal and Administrative Laws said that existing regulations in the penal code, child care, protection and education, anti-human trafficking and prostitution seemed to cover this kind
Updated: 02/22/2012 10:12P
Cops go out of their way for Saif
which the law has been followed and bail promptly granted is when celebrities are involved, even though police are required to grant bail forthwith in comparable cases," said advocate Srikant Bhat, author of Principles and Practice of Criminal Law.
Updated: 02/22/2012 09:59P
Impaired-driving trial of former Leafs captain Rick Vaive concludes in Newmarket
But Barry argues Whiffen had not practised criminal law in many years and was in the middle of attempting to contact a criminal lawyer for advice when Vaive was taken in for a breath sample. Barry also questioned some of the evidence of drunkenness put
Updated: 02/22/2012 09:57P
Indiana House panel approves bill authorizing resistance to illegal entry by
The Courts and Criminal Code Committee passed the bill 9-3, and it moves to the full House for consideration. The legislation is meant to clarify state law in light of an Indiana Supreme Court decision last year which said Hoosiers have a limited right
Updated: 02/22/2012 09:52P
McGuinty government set to replace law used in G20 arrests
It is far narrower in scope than the old law. “It will be limited because we are following Judge McMurtry's advice and according to him the … Criminal Code covers the rest,” Meilleur said Wednesday. The bill will allow people to be asked for
Updated: 02/22/2012 09:41P
UBB superintend charged as criminal probe moves up
May was charged not under the criminal provisions of the federal Mine Safety and Health Act. Instead, he is accused of taking part in a criminal conspiracy, which is an agreement by two or more people to violate the law. Specifically, he was charged
Updated: 02/22/2012 09:41P
2011 Dakota County juvenile prosecution stats released
Teens are using these medications because they believe that: these medications are safer to use than illicit drugs; there are fewer stigmas attached to using them; there are fewer side effects than illicit drugs; and parents don't care as much if the
Updated: 02/22/2012 09:24P
Supreme Court torn over law punishing fake military heroes
The justices wanted to know whether a decision upholding the Stolen Valor Act could lead to laws against such things as lying about the Holocaust, an extramarital affair, a high-school diploma or college degrees, or to impress a date.
Updated: 02/22/2012 09:10P
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