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Criminal law expert addresses Trayvon Martin and other legal questions
Chin is speaking at the Widener School of Law in Harrisburg Monday at 4:30 pm as part of Widener's sixth-annual John L. Gedid lecture. Prof. Chin is also considered an authority on immigration law. In fact, his lecture at Widener is titled State
Updated: 03/24/2012 10:41P
Indonesia: Victims Still Waiting for Truth and Justice
It should not substitute the responsibility of the criminal justice system in the country to investigate and – if sufficient admissible evidence exists – prosecute those responsible for grave human rights violations and crimes under international law.
Updated: 03/24/2012 08:40P
It's the 30th anniversary of Canada's Charter of Rights
Certainly, the greatest impact of the Charter has been in the area of criminal law and most beneficiaries of the Charter have been those charged with criminal offences. But there have been many other beneficiaries, chief among them minorities,
Updated: 03/24/2012 08:21P
Right activists count down to criminalization of animal cruelty
5199 is that it only subjects offenders to fines under the Law on Misdemeanors and they get away with small fines all too often. Reclassifying animal cruelty under the penal code would make crimes against animals -- including the use of animals for
Updated: 03/24/2012 08:12P
'You don't have to suffer alone'
For the past five years in his criminal law practice, he has been a passionate and tireless advocate for people who struggle with mental health issues and addictions. “It was a very personal decision of mine,” he said in a phone interview from the NDP
Updated: 03/24/2012 07:13P
'Gays had freedom in pre-British India'
The note was presented by the AG after a bench of Justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadyaya wanted to know as what was the material before Lord Macaulay who drafted the Indian Penal Code in 1834, to include in it Section 377, declaring gay sex as a
Updated: 03/24/2012 06:56P
Terrorism yet to be defined: Expert
PATNA:Vardhaman University law faculty head Manik Chakraborty said here on Saturday that the criminal justice system of a country cannot be successful until the criminal justice system of the world is taken into consideration.
Updated: 03/24/2012 06:52P
Louisiana House panel endorses bill to expand racketeering laws
Cameron Henry, R-Jefferson, won approval this week for a bill that would expand the state's racketeering laws. The House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice unanimously approved Henry's House Bill 99 and sent it to the House floor for
Updated: 03/24/2012 06:30P
Panel: Review severity of juvenile sentencing
HARTFORD -- State criminal justice officials want to develop plans for reducing the prison sentences of violent juveniles who have shown remorse and rehabilitation, before anticipated rulings from federal and state courts order them to do so.
Updated: 03/24/2012 05:46P
First Conviction Under Law Banning Human Trafficking
DETROIT (WWJ) – Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette Friday announced his new Human Trafficking Unit has secured the state's first criminal conviction charged under the recently passed state law banning human trafficking. After a four-day jury trial
Updated: 03/24/2012 04:56P
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