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Caretakers turn crime masters at Apna Ghar
PANAJI: Minors in conflict with the law lodged at the state-run reformatory home Apna Ghar, are being used by staff at the home to commit crimes. Caretakers, who have a nexus with notorious gangsters from St Cruz and Merces, allow the boys to escape
Updated: 04/01/2012 07:54P

US Attorney honors law enforcement for PSN program
3 The program really provides long sentences for criminals who have long violent criminal offenses. The program concentrates law enforcements efforts to secure sentences that reflect the violent criminal history of the offenders.
Updated: 04/01/2012 07:20P

Early get out of jail card in sight for prisoners
A criminal barrister and head of the Bar Association's criminal law committee, Stephen Odgers, SC, who recommended the review, said research had shown the length of sentences had no impact on the crime rate. Hundreds, if not thousands, of prisoners who
Updated: 04/01/2012 06:34P

Lyari protests killing of 'criminal'
Enraged residents took to the streets and attacked the law enforcers, who were present in the area for maintaining law and order situation, with petrol bombs. The residents blocked the roads for all vehicular traffic by burning tyres, and in some areas
Updated: 04/01/2012 05:59P

Parents Intend To Continue Flouting Smacking Law – Poll
An independent nationwide poll of parents who have younger children has found that parents are flouting the anti-smacking law, and will continue to do so – despite the potential for prosecution. They also believe that the law has caused a decline in
Updated: 04/01/2012 05:29P

NJ Sexting Law Begins
Under the new law, teenagers will be provided an educational program rather than criminal punishment for a first time offense. By David Chang New Jersey's new “sexting law” officially began on Sunday. New Jersey's new “sexting law” officially began on
Updated: 04/01/2012 05:23P

Senator Chris Coons is cosponsoring a bill that will allow more freedom for
If the bill becomes law, if a federal officer is indicted by a state court for his actions in stopping a violent crime, the case will be moved from the state court to a federal court. In a statement, Coons recalled how he worked closely with law
Updated: 04/01/2012 05:05P

Louisiana's self-defense law differs from Florida's
The teen dies, and the shooter is not arrested because, authorities say, he is protected by Florida's self-defense law. The shooting on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., has triggered a federal investigation and rallies across the country questioning whether
Updated: 04/01/2012 03:14P

Parents to continue flouting smacking law - poll
"In effect, the politicians have criminalised an act of parenting which the parents themselves simply don't equate as a criminal act. Parents are treating the law with contempt." A similar poll of parents in 2011 found a third of parents said that
Updated: 04/01/2012 02:28P

Acquittals, legal defeats dim luster of New Jersey's large corruption sting
One problem: He was charged with crimes he couldn't have committed, a federal judge would later rule in two separate opinions. Today Manzo, a former state lawmaker, is a free man after a bruising legal battle to clear his name, an effort that cost him
Updated: 04/01/2012 12:36P