Latest Criminal Law News

WSP to host Kiwanis Youth Law Enforcement Career Camp
Many students who attend this week-long camp go on to have careers in the criminal justice field. Washington State high school juniors and seniors with an interest in law enforcement as a career will have an opportunity to spend a week this summer
Updated: 03/23/2012 10:43A

Tony Byrne's court bid to challenge Gordon Wood will be a legal first
Tony Byrne will make legal history by becoming the first family member of a victim to seek to take over a criminal appeal. His lawyers are drafting grounds for him to lodge an application and seek leave to appeal to the High Court following the state's
Updated: 03/23/2012 10:35A

Ontario court ruling Monday could set new legal precedents for prostitution laws
An Angus Reid poll last year showed Canadians are deeply divided on how to deal with prostitution laws: 36 per cent believe the Criminal Code provisions related to communication and brothels are fair to the purpose of protecting the public good.
Updated: 03/23/2012 10:33A

Texas Tech Law School presents Criminal Law Symposium
By BRITTANY HOOVER The Texas Tech School of Law and the Law Review will present the sixth-annual Criminal Law Symposium: The Sixth Amendment, a continuing legal education program for those interested in learning about current developments in criminal
Updated: 03/23/2012 10:27A

ORHAN KEMAL CENG?Z
I was trying to explain yesterday that those popular allegations claiming that journalists are being tried for their journalistic activities in the Ergenekon case were already being tested by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Updated: 03/23/2012 10:19A

State Debate Local Caylee's Law
The local bill would make it a criminal offense for a parent or guardian who not to report a child missing within 24 hours. By Chris D'Alessandro Connecticut lawmakers are debating a bill that would require reporting a child missing within 24 hours.
Updated: 03/23/2012 10:05A

State Debates Local Caylee's Law
The local bill would make it a criminal offense for a parent or guardian who not to report a child missing within 24 hours. By Chris D'Alessandro Connecticut lawmakers are debating a bill that would require reporting a child missing within 24 hours.
Updated: 03/23/2012 10:05A

International Accountability and the Alien Tort Statute
JURIST Guest Columnists Jennifer Green and Sahadev Gowda of the University of Minnesota Law School, say that corporations must be held accountable for international law violations through use of the Alien Tort Statute... Last month, the US Supreme
Updated: 03/23/2012 09:14A

Crime Report: DWI Arrests, Car Damaged at Wantagh High School
On March 13, Ron Jacoby, 47, of Jericho was arrested on Sunrise Highway near Wantagh Avenue in Wantagh and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of controlled substance, driving while intoxicated and one vehicle and traffic law violation.
Updated: 03/23/2012 09:08A

Scenery of the crime
His hero, game warden and lone-wolf law enforcement officer Joe Pickett, battles "environmental terrorists, rogue federal land managers, animal mutilators, crazed cowboy hit men, corrupt bureaucrats, homicidal animal rights advocates and violent
Updated: 03/23/2012 09:04A