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Canadian anti-gang laws seen as perfect fit for Island
Committing a gang crime carries a 30-year sentence and aiding and abetting a gang member carries a 25 year punishment. Parents of children in gangs can be convicted of a crime, including guardians. The courts can take into consideration mitigating
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:31A
Canadian anti-gang laws seen as perfect fit for Island
Committing a gang crime carries a 30-year sentence and aiding and abetting a gang member carries a 25 year punishment. Parents of children in gangs can be convicted of a crime, including guardians. The courts can take into consideration mitigating
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:31A
Crime and Courts: Bail bonds proposal resurfaces in the Legislature
Steven Elbow has covered police and court issues for more than a decade in Wisconsin. He joined The Capital Times in 2000, where he has covered city, county and state government in addition to law enforcement. He has also worked for the Portage Daily
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:28A
WILLIAMS v. STATE
PENAL CODE ANN. § 29.03 (West 2003). Appellant was assessed a concurrent-suspended sentence of ten years' confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, placed on community supervision for a period of ten years,
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:24A
IN RE LUCIO
Relator, Pedro Palomo Lucio, an inmate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, filed a pro se petition for writ of mandamus in this Court. See Tex. Gov't Code Ann. § 22.221 (West Supp. 2010); see also Tex. R. App. P. 52.
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:24A
HASKELL v. HARRIS
KAMALA D. HARRIS, * Attorney General of California; EVA STEINBERGER, Assistant Bureau Chief for DNA Programs, California Department of Justice, Defendants-Appellees. Michael T. Risher (argued), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:21A
PEOPLE v. VARGAS
On May 18, 2011, a felony complaint charged defendant and appellant Steven Edward Vargas with unlawful possession of ammunition under Penal Code 1 former section 12316, subdivision (b)(1) 2 (count 1); and street terrorism under section 186.22,
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:19A
PEOPLE v. ORTIZ
In 1975, Division One of this District collected the long line of decisions where trial courts had departed from the language of Penal Code 1096 in instructing on the concept of reasonable doubt. It summarized that "[w]ell intentioned efforts to
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:19A
European MPs unconcerned about the real situation in Belarus
According to the House of Representatives, international law (Art.6 of the International Pact on Civil and Political Rights) allows capital punishment for especially grave crimes. “The Republic of Belarus adheres to its international commitments.
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:09A
'Reprehensible' Market Conduct Isn't All Criminal, Holder Says
President Barack Obama announced the creation of a Justice Department unit to investigate misconduct in the bundling of mortgage loans into securities in his State of the Union speech on Jan. 24. The Justice Department “will not hesitate to bring
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:05A
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