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Suspect jailed, but not charged, after rotting body found in home
A man who was arrested after a decomposed body was found inside a Tacoma home remains jailed but has not been charged. John Ben Jones Jr. came into Pierce County court wearing a suicide prevention smock as he was ordered to be held in jail for 72 hours
Updated: 03/23/2012 06:53P
ALEC's Corporate Backers Silent On "Shoot First" Law
Among the voices absent from the national debate over Florida's law are those of the major corporations and industry groups who provide the bulk of the funding for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the shadowy right-wing organization
Updated: 03/23/2012 06:53P
Law Enforcement K-9 Teams Support New State Legislation (VIDEO)
“Our communities invest a lot in these K-9s and when they do their job and catch a criminal we want them back on the road catching more criminals, enforcing the law and protecting the public not spending 10 days in quarantine,” said Chief Sullivan.
Updated: 03/23/2012 06:51P
Trayvon Martin case puts NC self-defense law in spotlight
But laws like North Carolina's are now in the spotlight after an unarmed teenager in Florida was shot to death last month. The “Castle Doctrine” provides protection from criminal and civil penalties for those who use guns to defend themselves in their
Updated: 03/23/2012 06:48P
Morocco: Girl's Death Highlights Flawed Laws
Despite reforms in Morocco's 2004 family code, girls and women are far from being protected under the law when they are the victims of violence. (Rabat) – Morocco should enact a meaningful law on domestic violence and repeal the penal code provision
Updated: 03/23/2012 06:30P
Ravi's High-Profile Media Campaign Both Savvy and Risky
“Judges are people too,” said Jenny Carroll, a professor criminal law at Seton Hall Law School. “If the sense is that there is a surge in the public against giving Ravi a 10-year sentence, then a judge may feel hesitant before he imposes such a harsh
Updated: 03/23/2012 06:10P
Ergenekon, journalists, European Parliament
It notes that the national judicial authorities have relied on concrete evidence when they arrested the petitioner alleging the existence of evidence and reasons to suspect -- the meaning of Article 91 § 2 and Article 100 of the Code of Criminal
Updated: 03/23/2012 06:08P
Killer of 16 Afghans :US soldier faces criminal charges
By Katrina Jones - Mar 24th, 2012 (No Comment) Washington: Criminal charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) were formally preferred today against US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. The charges allege that, on or about March 11,
Updated: 03/23/2012 06:02P
Human trafficking in Calgary a bigger problem than originally thought
The Criminal Code charge of human trafficking has rarely been laid and there are no known convictions in Alberta, yet half of the agencies surveyed in a study released Friday said they have come into contact with victims.
Updated: 03/23/2012 06:02P
SCC: Native background must be a factor in sentences
They are a "remedial provision designed to ameliorate the serious problem of overrepresentation of Aboriginal People in Canadian prisons and to encourage sentencing judges to have recourse to a restorative approach to sentencing." In one of the cases,
Updated: 03/23/2012 05:50P
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