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Sanctions Required to Curb Online Rumors
China now has a number of laws and regulations which outline punishments to be meted out to rumormongers, including criminal law and regulations on information services on the Internet. According to the criminal law, promulgating rumors,
Updated: 04/15/2012 10:20A
The Right to an Interpreter for Criminal Defendants with Limited English
M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and has interned in the police department and the district court in Turnopil, Ukraine. Here Dasevich discusses the need for interpreters in the criminal justice system, and how courts can
Updated: 04/15/2012 10:09A
Legal View: At trial stage, only court can release passport
On the other hand, the police and public prosecutors are allowed to arrest any suspect in case of a crime. However, they may release the suspect on bail after recording his statement and summon him to attend the court. In your case, if the case has
Updated: 04/15/2012 10:08A
Do we need a law against incest?
All the same – large parts of modern criminal law cannot be adequately explained without the moral views behind the rule. If a man hacks off part of his body, boils it in sauce hollandaise and serves it to a friend, people in this country tend to find
Updated: 04/15/2012 08:07A
Police say law makes job harder
That means 70000 grams have been prevented from “potentially being diverted by meth criminals,” said the release from the nonprofit association, which bills itself as facilitating “cooperation between law enforcement, healthcare professionals,
Updated: 04/15/2012 06:02A
Law gives Zimmerman aces in hole
At least two dozen states since 2005 have adopted laws similar to Florida's, which broadly eliminated a person's duty to retreat under threat of death or serious injury, as long as the person isn't committing a crime and is in a place where he or she
Updated: 04/15/2012 05:57A
'Stand your ground' gives Zimmerman legal advantage
Martin's shooting has unleashed a nationwide debate on the validity of these laws, which exist in some form in most of the country and which prosecutors and police have generally opposed as confusing, prone to abuse by criminals and difficult to apply
Updated: 04/15/2012 05:21A
Woman 'distraught and depressed' over murder charge in death of sister-in-law
Kristin Rushowy Staff Reporter The woman accused of second-degree murder in the death of her sister-in-law is “distraught and depressed” over the charges, her lawyer says. Deepak Paradkar said his client, Mandeep Punia, is also “very saddened” and that
Updated: 04/15/2012 05:18A
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo | Employment-Related CORI
The remaining changes from the 2010 overhaul of the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) law will go into effect on May 4, 2012, and several provisions affect Massachusetts employers. We first addressed changes to the CORI law in an alert
Updated: 04/15/2012 04:44A
'Stand your ground' gives Zimmerman legal edge; data unclear on laws' effect
Martin's shooting has unleashed a nationwide debate on the validity of these laws, which exist in some form in most of the country and which prosecutors and police have generally opposed as confusing, prone to abuse by criminals, and difficult to apply
Updated: 04/15/2012 04:02A
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