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Channel 2 investigation highlights racial discrepancies in marijuana arrests
Georgia has some of the toughest marijuana laws in the country and a recent study conducted for the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation showed that the state spends $310 million to police, prosecute and jail marijuana offenders.
Updated: 02/29/2012 03:20P
Kripashankar and relatives booked in assets case
By S. Narendra, Correspondent Mumbai Former Mumbai Congress president Kripashankar Singh is in big trouble, with the Mumbai police registering an FIR against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act and various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) in
Updated: 02/29/2012 03:05P
Sammamish representative tapped for County Council committee posts
Following the annual reorganization, the Sammamish representative, Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, serves as chairwoman for the Law, Justice, Health and Human Services Committee. Members recommend policies related to criminal justice and emergency
Updated: 02/29/2012 03:03P
Sammamish representative tapped for County Council committee posts
Following the annual reorganization, the Sammamish representative, Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, serves as chairwoman for the Law, Justice, Health and Human Services Committee. Members recommend policies related to criminal justice and emergency
Updated: 02/29/2012 03:03P
Privacy not at the cost of social morality, argues Muslim board
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code did not suffer from the vice of being irrational, nor was it based on intelligible differentia. Pointing out that consent was irrelevant, he said if criminalisation of a consensual act was a ground to hold a
Updated: 02/29/2012 02:59P
Doctors, lawyers charged in US auto insurer fraud
They said the ring was designed to exploit New York's "no-fault" auto insurance law, which requires vehicles registered in the state to carry insurance that lets drivers and passengers obtain up to $50000 for accident injuries, regardless of fault.
Updated: 02/29/2012 02:59P
Cuomo throws his full weight behind a DNA bill, without 'other' issues
By Reid Pillifant In the weeks since Governor Andrew Cuomo mentioned a new all-crimes DNA database in his State of the State speech last month, the administration delegated Lieutenant Governor and former Rochester police chief Bob Duffy,
Updated: 02/29/2012 02:57P
ID Theft Still Top Consumer Complaints For 2011
The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 2000 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad. Enforcers search the database to research cases, track targets,
Updated: 02/29/2012 02:45P
Did the NYPD's Spying on Muslims Violate the Law?
Mayor Michael Bloomberg – who claimed last year that the NYPD does not focus on religion and only follows threats or leads – is now arguing that, as he said last week, "Everything the NYPD has done is legal, it is appropriate, it is constitutional.
Updated: 02/29/2012 02:42P
Third Arrest for False Report
After having sent out an email alert the night of the supposed assault, police began, “An extensive criminal investigation [that] revealed the report was false and the individual involved fabricated the story in its entirety,” according to Chief Paul
Updated: 02/29/2012 02:38P
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