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Criminal charges against Seth Wescott dropped
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Updated: 02/25/2012 09:15P
Proposed bills would expand NH freedoms – but at a cost
Leaders in the state Legislature say their agenda is to create jobs, stimulate business and lessen government obligations. Some of the hundreds of bills, resolutions and constitutional amendments proposed for 2012 target those goals.
Updated: 02/25/2012 09:05P
Statute of limitations could be eliminated for violent crimes
By Megan Wiebold - bio | email Madison (WQOW) - One violent, unsolved crime may cause the statute of limitations on three different types of crimes to be eliminated. A State Assembly committee took the first step towards that end this week.
Updated: 02/25/2012 08:15P
Researchers want UN war crimes archive opened
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington is also seeking to have the archive opened. "It's outrageous that material which could help bring today's war criminals to justice and improve our understanding of the Holocaust is still secret," said
Updated: 02/25/2012 08:03P
Tribal support of gargantuan crimes in Ghana
in Accra to sympathise with their tribesman, Alfred Woyome, who was being held over financial crimes of about US$40 million, is disturbing and lacks depth, impinging on Ghana's ethnic cohesion and values, and threatening Ghana's justice system.
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:47P
Crimes against humanity in Syria?
When I ventured into this area of international law for the first time in 1987, its applicability was still subject to debate among legal scholars, because the list of crimes to which it could apply, and exact criteria they must satisfy were not
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:40P
Ibori London case: Is justice the issue?
By Ibinabo Dagogo Douglas Anybody who has been really conversant with the workings of the British court system and the politics of the on-going case against Chief James Onanefe Ibori, would have known a long time ago that all is stacked up against the
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:34P
Pending law change may have saved Lombard directors from guilty verdicts.
This is because the Bill reserves criminal sanctions for misconduct which is deliberate and reckless – Justice Dobson's decision is clear that the charges proven are "a material step away from the seriousness required for a custodial sentence" and that
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:09P
Human trafficking bill's future bright, supporters say
Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee's Criminal Laws Subcommittee debated the merits this week of a bill criminalizing human trafficking. It was introduced in February 2011 by state Rep. Nelson Hardwick, R-Surfside Beach.
Updated: 02/25/2012 07:07P
Fetal homicide laws to be introduced in Western Australia
Under present laws, an unborn baby has no legal status and is not recognised by the courts. But Mr Porter said the new fetal homicide laws would create a new criminal code offence of causing death or grievous bodily harm to an unborn child.
Updated: 02/25/2012 06:29P
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