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DoJ pushes int'l accords against crime
THE Senate has been asked to ratify the treaties signed by the Philippines with China, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland providing for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima wrote the Senate saying the pacts
Updated: 03/04/2012 11:03A

DoJ pushes int'l accords against crime
THE Senate has been asked to ratify the treaties signed by the Philippines with China, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland providing for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima wrote the Senate saying the pacts
Updated: 03/04/2012 11:03A

Study shows federal sentences still vary widely across the nation
He said TRAC doggedly pursued the data because it's vital the public and the courts have evidence that could improve the justice system. "Criminal defense attorneys, for example, have long relied on anecdotal, sometimes gossipy information to advise
Updated: 03/04/2012 10:58A

Northwestern State offering Louisiana's first master's in homeland security
Joe Morris, head of the Department of Criminal Justice, History and Social Sciences, said the university started developing the program after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Courses will cover a variety of security issues, such as international terrorism;
Updated: 03/04/2012 10:45A

Un-Cheating Justice: Two Years Left to Prosecute Bush
She co-authored the special prosecutor law that was allowed to lapse, just in time for the George W. Bush crime wave, after Kenneth Starr made such a mockery of it during the Whitewater-cum-Lewinsky scandals. She was there for the creation of the
Updated: 03/04/2012 10:44A

Federal Sentences Still Vary Widely
On Monday, TRAC planned to launch the first publicly available database of sentencing records, sortable by judge, after a 15-year struggle to get records from a reluctant Justice Department. The center has filed FOIA lawsuits against the department
Updated: 03/04/2012 09:57A

Senate urged to ratify treaty on legal aid with 3 countries
The MLAT is a bilateral mechanism that allows the Philippines and other contracting party governments to assist each other in the investigative, prosecutorial and judicial processes related to criminal matters. The Department of Justice is the lead
Updated: 03/04/2012 09:56A

Culling crime
He adds that there should be a three-strike rule for those that continually break the law. The mayor also suggests that the judiciary should start banning repeat offenders from staying in the city. “There's a provision in the Criminal Code of Canada
Updated: 03/04/2012 09:32A

AP Enterprise: Federal judges give widely disparate sentences, but not along
He said TRAC doggedly pursued the data because it's vital the public and the courts have evidence that could improve the justice system. "Criminal defense attorneys, for example, have long relied on anecdotal, sometimes gossipy information to advise
Updated: 03/04/2012 09:14A

Systemic silencing: No incentive to cry rape
The establishment of these units were mandated by the Rape Victims Assistance and Protection Law that was passed in 1998, just a year after the Anti-Rape Law amended pertinent provisions in the Revised Penal Code. Under these laws, rape has become a
Updated: 03/04/2012 09:06A