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Dawood's aide acquitted
He was booked under a stringent anti-organised crime law. Justice Suresh Kait dismissed the police plea and upheld the trial court's order absolving Khalil of the charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) for running an
Updated: 04/24/2012 01:03A
State's gun laws don't protect citizenry
Even police in New Jersey carry firearms only by exception to the law(2C:39-5) which makes possession of a weapon a crime. And exceptions to the law are not automatic. They must be adjudicated in a court of law. Things done by the Nazis are universally
Updated: 04/24/2012 01:03A
Sex crimes education: Title IX transforms colleges' handling of sex assault
Courts have long granted colleges leeway to use lower standards of proof because they are educational proceedings enforcing college rules, not criminal laws. Even before the recent guidance, a majority of colleges were already using the standard of
Updated: 04/24/2012 12:59A
Bleijie calls for lying laws to be re-enacted
He said Labor changed the criminal code in 2006 to remove lying to parliament, making it impossible for offenders to be prosecuted. Mr Bleijie said they repealed the law with the intention of protecting then-health minister Gordon Nuttall,
Updated: 04/24/2012 12:43A
Bleijie calls for lying laws to be re-enacted
He said Labor changed the criminal code in 2006 to remove lying to parliament, making it impossible for offenders to be prosecuted. Mr Bleijie said they repealed the law with the intention of protecting then-health minister Gordon Nuttall,
Updated: 04/24/2012 12:43A
Businessman Michael Issakidis charged as police seize $40m of luxury assets in
Mr Issakidis is expected to appear in Queensland's Southport Magistrates' Court today to face charges of: Conspiracy to deal in the proceeds of crime of $1 million or more, contrary to Sections 400.3(1) and 11.5 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 - which
Updated: 04/24/2012 12:27A
Crime and Drugs Among Top Income Sources
Fedotov said such felonies generate high incomes and help organized crime accommodate and bypass Law enforcement as to find new opportunities to profit. Trafficking, violence and corruption rise as great barriers for the Millennium Goals after the
Updated: 04/24/2012 12:18A
John Edwards: Slimy, Not Criminal
He is now on trial for allegedly violating campaign-finance laws in an elaborate scheme to cover up his love child during his 2008 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Lots of husbands cheat on their wives. Fewer do it while their wives
Updated: 04/24/2012 12:07A
Hacking inquiry spreads to Murdoch's Sky News
Mr Ryley has previously defended the actions of Tubb, saying his investigations breached Darwin's privacy but were in the public interest, but Lord Justice Leveson asked him: “What you were doing was not just breaching someone's privacy,
Updated: 04/23/2012 11:31P
'Sins but no crimes,' John Edwards' defense says
Those were the starkly different portraits of John Edwards presented during opening arguments Monday, the first day of the former presidential candidate's criminal trial on charges that he violated campaign finance laws. Edwards is accused of accepting
Updated: 04/23/2012 11:25P
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