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State Bar Association honors Kane sheriff
The Illinois State Bar Association is honoring Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez with its 2012 Law Enforcement Award. The award recognizes law enforcement officers for conduct that promotes justice and brings “honor and respect to the entire criminal
Updated: 04/24/2012 09:17P
Reed College Chooses Oregon's Attorney General as President
Mr. Kroger, who was elected to his current post in 2008, is a Yale University and Harvard Law School graduate who taught criminal law at Lewis & Clark Law School after serving as an assistant US attorney in New York, where he had a reputation for
Updated: 04/24/2012 09:11P
Lawsuit exposes rift in high-profile Bucks law firm
Webster is a past president of the Pennsylvania Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and has chaired the Bucks County Bar Association's Criminal Law Section since 1999. She has represented numerous criminal defendants in headline-grabbing trials.
Updated: 04/24/2012 08:27P
Citizen's arrest bill gives more power to rent-a-cops, police warn
or adequate training to safely and lawfully make arrests in a manner proportionate to the circumstances,'' Eric Gottardi, vice chair of the Canadian Bar Association's National Criminal Justice Section, told a parliamentary committee recently.
Updated: 04/24/2012 08:22P
Supreme Court takes up Arizona's immigration law
The Obama administration pushed back hard and early, arguing even before the law was implemented that it unconstitutionally trod on the federal government's exclusive rights to enforce immigration laws and conduct foreign policy.
Updated: 04/24/2012 07:45P
Senators approve abortion law changes
State law already requires that an abortion be performed by a physician, but the Ward measure creates a specific criminal statute. Supporters of the bill cited cases in Pennsylvania and Maryland in which doctors who had lost their licenses were
Updated: 04/24/2012 07:31P
Evidence from criminal cases piling up at Eau Claire Police Dept.
A state law passed in 2005 says law enforcement must keep all criminal evidence until the convict is out of prison and off probation. Although the law was enacted to cut down on wrongful convictions, it's creating some cramped quarters at the Eau
Updated: 04/24/2012 07:30P
Ex-BP engineer arrested on first criminal charges in Gulf oil spill case
In a statement, Attorney General Eric Holder said prosecutors "will hold accountable those who violated the law in connection with the largest environmental disaster in US history." Federal investigators have been looking into the causes of the blowout
Updated: 04/24/2012 06:19P
Honest-services law covers independent contractors -9th Cir.
The court found that the federal criminal law applies not only to employees, but also to anyone in a relationship of trust with the victim. Brano Milovanovic and five others were charged with devising a fraudulent scheme to dupe the Washington State
Updated: 04/24/2012 06:13P
Controversial Arizona Law Reaches Supreme Court
He observes that when he was solicitor general in the Bush administration, the Supreme Court sided with Texas in a death penalty case, citing the state's sovereign right to administer its own criminal justice system, even though the state had clearly
Updated: 04/24/2012 06:06P
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