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NRA Pushed for 'Stand Your Ground' Laws
NRA pushed for “Stand Your Ground” Laws. Okay… And criminals – by a wide margin – oppose them, claiming it makes for a more hazardous work environment. environment. POSTED BY: LOGICSGOOD5 | ********New Florida handbook for criminals will state: shoot
Updated: 03/31/2012 04:35P

Waging a legal 'war on drugs' is doomed to failure
They recommend abandoning an irrational criminal justice approach based mainly on ideology and emotion. Rather than pointlessly locking up more drug abusers, they want Ottawa to turn to “harm reduction” policies scientifically grounded in what works.
Updated: 03/31/2012 04:07P

Mowing people down is bailable offence
After the Oshiwara drink-driving accident last week in which two persons were grievously injured, with one of them, Charu Khandal, 28, still in critical condition, several questions have been raised about the stringency of the current legal system.
Updated: 03/31/2012 03:45P

Case Against Prasanna Silva's Diplomatic Immunity
An organisation representing the international Tamil diaspora is taking legal action against William Hague over the Foreign Office's failure to confront a senior Sri Lankan diplomat accused of complicity in crimes against humanity during the final
Updated: 03/31/2012 03:12P

Calls for anti-discrimination law renewed after gay killed - Today's News Now
The case has prompted a national debate in Chile over hate crimes, with President Sebastian Pinera saying from Asia that his government won't rest until a proposed anti-discrimination law is passed. Four suspects have been jailed on attempted murder
Updated: 03/31/2012 02:48P

Calls for anti-discrimination law renewed after gay killed - Today's News Now
The case has prompted a national debate in Chile over hate crimes, with President Sebastian Pinera saying from Asia that his government won't rest until a proposed anti-discrimination law is passed. Four suspects have been jailed on attempted murder
Updated: 03/31/2012 02:48P

Legislators reject revival of death penalty
MANILA – Members of Congress snubbed the idea of re-imposing the death penalty law saying capital punishment is not an effective deterrent of crime. Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Nicanor Bartolome suggested the revival of the
Updated: 03/31/2012 11:15A

Prostitution still a social problem
Neither, I suppose, would have telling him calmly and reasonably that what he was doing was wrong, that describing himself as a "bodyguard" to justify his exploitive and abusive behaviour toward vulnerable and troubled young women under his spell and
Updated: 03/31/2012 10:33A

Why convictions are so hard to get
Commuters, reading newspapers and getting their news on smart phones, shake their heads in disgust. How did he get away with it? What was the jury thinking? Why did the judge do that? As a former sex crimes prosecutor, when a high profile rape case is
Updated: 03/31/2012 10:26A

Why convictions in sex crimes cases are so hard to get
Commuters, reading newspapers and getting their news on smart phones, shake their heads in disgust. How did he get away with it? What was the jury thinking? Why did the judge do that? As a former sex crimes prosecutor, when a high profile rape case is
Updated: 03/31/2012 10:22A