Latest Criminal Law News

Homicides Spike In First Three Months Of 2012
If passed, the legislation would allow racketeering prosecutions of anyone directly or indirectly in gang activity through violent crimes, gun and drug crimes or collection of illegal debts. Convictions under the law would carry prison sentences
Updated: 04/12/2012 10:04A

Winston-Salem Attorney Chris Clifton Selected for 2012 'Legal Elite' and
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- Christopher R. Clifton, JD, a Winston-Salem criminal defense attorney and partner in Grace, Tisdale & Clifton, PA, was recently selected by his peers for Business North Carolina's “Legal Elite” and for the 2012 North Carolina Super
Updated: 04/12/2012 09:59A

Civil Rights Crime Committed in Travyon Martin Case?
MICHELLE MALKIN, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: I think you have to look at Eric Holder's record and his history and his legacy as a government official at the Department of Justice under the Clinton administration and now after four years in the Obama
Updated: 04/12/2012 09:54A

Declining to investigate atrocities
William A. Schabas is the author of Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals. He is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London, professor of international criminal law and human rights at
Updated: 04/12/2012 09:49A

Police Deaths Rise As Crime Drops
Maria Haberfeld, chair of the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice says that while it's hard to pinpoint any one factor behind these numbers, there are some trends that emerge
Updated: 04/12/2012 09:22A

PEOPLE v. RAMIREZ
Assistant District Attorney Megan R. Roberts, Office of Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx County, 198 East 161st Street, Bronx, NY 10451, for the People. Heidi Bota, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, Criminal Appeals Division, 199 Water Street,
Updated: 04/12/2012 09:21A

Zimmerman's Fair Trial
Maybe the tough-on-crime prosecutor won't be able to disprove self-defense, given the now-notorious Stand Your Ground law (do read Mother Jones' examination of the money trail behind the law). Maybe the judge won't be able to stand up to the public
Updated: 04/12/2012 09:16A

Man cannot play God
If really the death penalty deters, we may as well impose it on every crime, to have a crime-free society. But I don't buy the supermarket theory of criminal law, as if one has a copy of the Revised Penal Code and choose to commit only any of those
Updated: 04/12/2012 08:57A

Man cannot play God
If really the death penalty deters, we may as well impose it on every crime, to have a crime-free society. But I don't buy the supermarket theory of criminal law, as if one has a copy of the Revised Penal Code and choose to commit only any of those
Updated: 04/12/2012 08:57A

Is John Edwards a Criminal?
By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff (Newser) – Jury selection begins today in the trial of John Edwards, and if it were a crime to be a sleazeball, he'd be going away for life. But what he's actually charged with—failing to report gifts of almost $1 million,
Updated: 04/12/2012 08:35A