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Law enforcement agencies act in unison to take down Houston-wide check theft ring
The criminal organization is also accused of recruiting numerous individuals, some of whom were homeless, to cash the fraudulent money orders at various check cashing locations. Concurrent investigations into these organized criminal acts were linked
Updated: 04/26/2012 11:09A
CHPA Applauds Alabama's Adoption Of HB 363
By adopting a drug offender registry, the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center will maintain electronic records of individuals convicted of felony drug charges and synch that data with the state's current real-time stop-sale technology,
Updated: 04/26/2012 11:08A
Deep Dive: Edwards trial criminalizing politics?
some are concerned expanding the boundaries of finance law, you make a complicated situation worse. this is not a civil charge, it's criminal. if convicted, he could get 30 years in prison. the same threat hangs over every public official who takes
Updated: 04/26/2012 11:01A
Deep Dive: Edwards trial criminalizing politics?
some are concerned expanding the boundaries of finance law, you make a complicated situation worse. this is not a civil charge, it's criminal. if convicted, he could get 30 years in prison. the same threat hangs over every public official who takes
Updated: 04/26/2012 11:01A
Charles Taylor guilty of aiding war crimes
There is no death penalty in international criminal law and Taylor would serve out any sentence in a British prison. United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay described the conviction as "immensely significant," saying it sends out a message that
Updated: 04/26/2012 10:57A
Illinois Senate OKs crime victims rights amendment, sends to House
It also would better inform crime victims of court proceedings. The proposal is named “Marsy's Law” after a California woman who was stalked and killed in 1983 by her ex-boyfriend. A week after the murder, the deceased woman's mother was confronted by
Updated: 04/26/2012 10:56A
Feds plan appeal
Last month, the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down Canada's bawdy house provisions as unconstitutional and amended the pimping provisions of the Criminal Code so that only those exploiting hookers will be prosecuted. But on Wednesday, Justice Minister
Updated: 04/26/2012 10:52A
Feds plan appeal
Last month, the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down Canada's bawdy house provisions as unconstitutional and amended the pimping provisions of the Criminal Code so that only those exploiting hookers will be prosecuted. But on Wednesday, Justice Minister
Updated: 04/26/2012 10:52A
Sierra Leone: Landmark Conviction of Liberian Ex-President - World Less
The Hague — The conviction on April 26, 2012, of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, for serious international crimes during Sierra Leone's brutal armed conflict provides justice for victims and shows that no one is above the law,
Updated: 04/26/2012 10:41A
Window cleaners fined: Competition Authority uses public prosecutor
The public prosecutor had qualified the cartel as a criminal organisation and prosecuted the behaviour under criminal law. However, the Court of Appeal of The Hague ruled that (part of) the window cleaners' behaviour qualified as a cartel infringement
Updated: 04/26/2012 10:39A
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