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Ukraine's new criminal procedure code
By Pavel KOVALEV, political expert Passed overnight by the Verkhovna Rada, following heated debate, this bill is now in effect as the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) of Ukraine, replacing the previous 50-year-old Soviet-worded one.
Updated: 04/19/2012 04:41A
Weinrieb Law Firm Forms Domestic Violence Division
Due to the complexity and variety of domestic violence charges, it is imperative for an individual charged with a domestic violence crime to retain a criminal defense attorney with expertise in domestic violence cases to aggressively defend and protect
Updated: 04/19/2012 04:39A
Law and Order Lake County
Kevin Czerekaviczius faces charges of criminal confinement, a Class C felony; criminal confinement, a Class D felony; strangulation, a Class D felony, and battery, a Class A misdemeanor. According to a Sheriff's Department release, Czerekaviczius met
Updated: 04/19/2012 03:28A
TN House votes to allow criminal prosecution for harming embryos
House lawmakers voted 80-18 for a measure that would extend criminal punishments for killing a fetus to the first eight weeks of pregnancy. Supporters said the bill would clarify a law passed last year that made it easier to prosecute people for
Updated: 04/19/2012 03:10A
European law role for lecturer at university
Mr Turner, who lives in Lincoln, said: "We are advising the European Commission on very important cross-jurisdictional evidence matters as part of the harmonising of criminal law in the EU. "The recommendations will form part of a legal white paper to
Updated: 04/19/2012 02:16A
'Trade in pirated materials needs checking'
In Zambia, the possession, publication or marketing of obscene materials is a criminal offence but this law now seems defective in view of the proliferation of pirated DVDs and those which contain pornographic material. They are a common sight being
Updated: 04/19/2012 02:07A
Brian Dickerson: Sloppy law snags another medical pot user
One of this column's cardinal principles is that the people who make Michigan's laws should be held accountable when their work is substandard -- even when the lawmakers in question are the people themselves. And so, on behalf of the 3 million other
Updated: 04/19/2012 02:01A
Trayvon Martin: Governor to name task force to look at gun law
Florida's governor will announce Thursday morning who will be part of a task force that will look at the state's gun laws in the aftermath of the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. In March, as outrage was growing about the shooting,
Updated: 04/19/2012 01:28A
Barry University Takes First Place in National Competition at The John
A team from Barry University's Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in Florida was named the national winner at the 2012 National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition. Second place winners represented Harvard Law School. At the competition, the teams
Updated: 04/19/2012 01:22A
Decrying Imaginary Racism
Second, and much more important, was the perception that law-enforcement's decision not to incarcerate the gunman in the immediate aftermath of the shooting reflected a racial bias that pervades the entire criminal-justice system of the United States.
Updated: 04/19/2012 01:13A
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