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Law Blog Doc Dump: Ted Stevens Investigative Report
The report, parts of which were revealed in court filings in November, found that prosecutors engaged in “systematic concealment” of evidence in the corruption case that could have helped Stevens defend himself. But it stopped short of a criminal
Updated: 03/15/2012 08:32A
Mozambique Rape Case Pits Tradition Against Law
March 15, 2012 Mozambique Rape Case Pits Tradition Against Law Johannes Myburgh | Pemba, Mozambique Women activists and lawyers are pressing for justice in the December gang rape of a woman in northern Mozambique. Investigators allegedly haven't
Updated: 03/15/2012 08:19A
FHS academy teaches law, order
A criminal justice focus has produced sweet music toward Megan Kidder's current career path. “I took band for three years and thought that that's the area I wanted to go into, music,” said Kidder, a senior in Farragut High School's Renaissance
Updated: 03/15/2012 08:17A
Legal expert calls VR surveillance of railway employee illegal
In the view of Matti Tolvanen, a professor of criminal law, such surveillance fits the definition of a privacy violation. He says that the sanctity of a citizen's home life is well protected under the law, and that such technical surveillance is not
Updated: 03/15/2012 08:07A
Legal expert calls VR surveillance of railway employee illegal
In the view of Matti Tolvanen, a professor of criminal law, such surveillance fits the definition of a privacy violation. He says that the sanctity of a citizen's home life is well protected under the law, and that such technical surveillance is not
Updated: 03/15/2012 08:07A
Moldova on Edge
"They have the means to travel to foreign places where they think the law cannot reach them and where no one will care about their crimes." Since its independence from the Soviet Union two decades ago, Moldova has been one of the places such predators
Updated: 03/15/2012 08:01A
Moldova on Edge
"They have the means to travel to foreign places where they think the law cannot reach them and where no one will care about their crimes." Since its independence from the Soviet Union two decades ago, Moldova has been one of the places such predators
Updated: 03/15/2012 08:01A
International criminal court delivers landmark first ruling
"We are with the rule of law and everybody has to pay for his mistakes and for any crime he commits, but when it will be selectively and targeting only African leaders it should not be accepted," Chad's ambassador to the US, Ahmat Mahamat Bachir,
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:45A
Prosecutor to seek 'close to maximum sentence' in Congo case
The ICC on Wednesday found Lubanga guilty of using child soldiers during a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, its first verdict since starting work almost a decade ago in a move hailed by the UN and world powers.
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:37A
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Crime bill puts too much faith in the watchmen
The trial in American criminal justice has been usurped by the plea bargain, in which the prosecutors hold most of the cards. Canada is not there (yet), but it has happened here. In Ontario, the Goudge inquiry into parents falsely convicted of killing
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:30A
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