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Excerpts from the Koschman judge's comments
“Actually, they are complementary rather than diverging — the citizen's right to a criminal justice system that draws its legitimacy from the confidence of its constituents and dispenses justice fairly and impartially. “Also implicated are government
Updated: 04/09/2012 06:54P
Magnitsky Doctor No Longer Faces Charges
But "in December 2011, amendments to the Criminal Code reduced the statute of limitations for several charges," including the one against Litvinova, the Investigative Committee said in a statement. The decision was made last week but was not announced
Updated: 04/09/2012 06:18P
Mass. Dem Senate hopeful seeks immigration law fix
By BOB SALSBERG AP BOSTON - A federal immigration law mandating that fingerprints taken from crime suspects by local law enforcement officials be turned over to the FBI creates barriers between police and immigrant communities and should be improved
Updated: 04/09/2012 06:01P
Edwards legal team shuffled many times before trial
Raleigh, NC — Jury selection is expected to begin next Monday for the criminal trial of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but the legal team accompanying Edwards to the federal courthouse in Greensboro will be far different from
Updated: 04/09/2012 05:58P
The Call Blog: Four Cops Shot, Mayor Renews Call For Tougher Gun Laws
All of the current incidents all share the same particularity that the individuals, whether criminal, law-enforcement/military, loving husband, etc-etc, disregarded the respect of anothers life. And laws. A gun is just the extension of a persons .
Updated: 04/09/2012 05:35P
The Call Blog: Four Cops Shot, Mayor Renews Call For Tougher Gun Laws
All of the current incidents all share the same particularity that the individuals, whether criminal, law-enforcement/military, loving husband, etc-etc, disregarded the respect of anothers life. And laws. A gun is just the extension of a persons .
Updated: 04/09/2012 05:35P
Barrister heads to Cambodia to bring justice to victims of the Khmer Rouge
Barrister Keith Raynor said he had always been interested in international criminal law. The tribunal was set up by the UN and Cambodian government in 2006 to try former members of the Pol Pot regime for genocide and crimes against humanity between
Updated: 04/09/2012 04:54P
Miller & Chevalier | Four Miller & Chevalier Members Named to the 2012
Richard Hibey, Homer Moyer, Jr., Barry Pollack, and Mark Rochon have been named to the 2012 International Who's Who of Business Crime Defence Lawyers list. Miller & Chevalier is among the top Washington, DC law firms in terms of number of white collar
Updated: 04/09/2012 04:48P
St. Louis Student Among Moot Court Competition Winners from KU School of Law
VanBlarcum and Ben Winters, Owatonna, Minn., both third-year students, won the award for best brief in the Herbert Wechsler National Criminal Law Moot Court Competition in Buffalo on March 31. They competed against 25 other teams from a list of
Updated: 04/09/2012 04:38P
Owatonna Student Among Moot Court Competition Winners from KU School of Law
Winters and fellow third-year law student Christi VanBlarcum, St. Louis, won the award for best brief in the Herbert Wechsler National Criminal Law Moot Court Competition in Buffalo on March 31. They competed against 25 other teams from a list of
Updated: 04/09/2012 04:38P