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Tuscaloosa police retiree to work on cold cases
After retiring from the Alabama Criminal Justice Center, Billy Sharp plans to start his new part-time job next month helping solve cold cases with the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit. The Tuscaloosa News reports (http://bit.ly/yAdb93 ) that Sharp
Updated: 02/25/2012 04:50P
78-year-old Ala. police trainer retires so he can devote time to solving cold
After retiring from the Alabama Criminal Justice Center, Billy Sharp plans to start his new part-time job next month helping solve cold cases with the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit. He says the only reason he quit was that there was nobody in
Updated: 02/25/2012 04:38P
Ala. judge acquits man accused in honeymoon death
JAY REEVES, AP Tommy Thomas identifies a picture of his daughter Tina Thomas Watson for Prosecutor Don Valeska, right, and the jury during the Gabe Watson capital murder trial at the Mel Bailey Criminal Justice Center in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday,
Updated: 02/25/2012 04:33P
Rapid City Police Dept. Hires 8 New Officers
by AP The new recruits will start a 13-week training program at the George S. Mickelson Criminal Justice Center in Pierre next week, with graduation set for May. After graduation, the officers will be certified to work in law enforcement in South
Updated: 02/25/2012 04:28P
Municipalities may be forced to rescind 'missing gun' reporting laws
“What they're doing is opening up municipalities to lawsuits,” he said. “We'll have to rescind the law.” If no other factors are at a crime scene, other than the weapon, and its ownership can be traced, that person becomes a suspect, he said.
Updated: 02/25/2012 04:16P
Berkeley Law analyzes state's crime policy
Boalt Hall has had consistent success for a century in producing leaders for criminal justice in California, but our efforts to influence where we send convicted felons and for how long have had more mixed results. The institution that trained Justices
Updated: 02/25/2012 04:12P
US Attorney General: Actions leading to 2008 market crash not criminal
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 January 24. The Justice Department "will not hesitate to bring
Updated: 02/25/2012 03:00P
Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas Where American criminal justice went wrong
Stuntz, an evangelical Christian and an avowed conservative, wanted people to grasp the profundity of the crisis he had observed -- how, over the past 50 years, our criminal justice system had been transformed into an unfair, amoral bureaucracy--one
Updated: 02/25/2012 01:38P
Justice proves elusive in deaths at day care
Holding the toy of her brother Mason, Annabelle Beach plays with her grandmother Debbie Earle (left) and mother Rebecca Beach at their St. Peters home Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012. Mason Beach died in September 2009 as a result of injuries received in a
Updated: 02/25/2012 01:31P
None held illegally
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday categorically stated that nobody has been detained illegally in connection with the crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War. The government has detained some accused on specific allegations
Updated: 02/25/2012 01:06P
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