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(AP) — Planned Parenthood ended nonsurgical abortions at its Wisconsin clinics Friday because of a new state law that subjects doctors who perform abortions but don't follow certain procedures to criminal penalties. The law, signed by Gov.
Updated: 04/20/2012 08:09P
Criminal Fugitive Returned to Mexico
A Mexican national wanted for kidnapping and attempted murder in his native country was turned over to Mexican law enforcement on Thursday. ICE-HSI special agents returned 32-year-old Jose Mario Islas-Andrade to Mexico to be tried in a 2008 kidnapping
Updated: 04/20/2012 06:52P
Laws Are For Little People To Obey: Even If They Have No Idea They're Breaking
By Amy Alkon I've been a fan of Walter Olson's Overlawyered blog for years. He chronicles absurdities and abuses in the law and prosecution -- like these on "structuring." ...The federal criminal offense of splitting up bank deposits so as to keep them
Updated: 04/20/2012 06:42P
The PM on lax time for sex crime: what exactly is he talking about?
In the case of a sex crime against a child, there were already mandatory minimum penalties in place for offences like sexual interference, sexual touching and sexual exploitation before the Conservatives began their criminal law reforms.
Updated: 04/20/2012 06:29P
ALEC Will End Work on Gun Laws, Plano Legislator Says
for gun laws. State Rep. Jerry Madden, R-Plano, has served as chairman of the American Legislative Exchange Council's Public Safety & Elections Committee, which focused on developing policies on crime and elections for state governments.
Updated: 04/20/2012 06:23P
Some RCMP applicants self-incriminate during polygraph test
individuals who signed up to be law enforcers with the national police force ended up becoming the subjects of investigations after they admitted to ``serious'' - and previously undetected - criminal offences during the applicant-screening process,
Updated: 04/20/2012 06:20P
Red Bank Police Report - April 20, 2012
All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Criminal Mischief occurring on 4-13-12 at Broad St. Victim reported that unknown subject(s) threw egg at window of business. Ptl. Matthew Ehrenreich. Theft occurring on 1-25-12
Updated: 04/20/2012 06:08P
Appeals court upholds criminal cockfighting laws
April 20 (Reuters) - Congress did not exceed its authority when it passed criminal laws that ban cockfighting, a US appeals court ruled on Friday. After being convicted of operating cockfighting derbies in Swansea, South Carolina, Scott Lawson,
Updated: 04/20/2012 06:03P
FOX Carolina 21Planned Parenthood suspends pill abortions in Wis.
"The added risks of felony penalties for physicians who provide medication abortion are unnecessary and intended to threaten a physician's ability to provide women with medication abortion," Huyck said. "The decision to end a pregnancy is a complex one
Updated: 04/20/2012 06:03P
Editorial: Bullied By Anti-Gay Bigotry
In 2012, an equally, if not more, high-profile verdict in New Jersey v. Ravi focused on the criminalization of the behavior of those who humiliate gay men by hatefully exposing their intimate sexual behavior on the Internet. In just under a decade,
Updated: 04/20/2012 06:00P
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