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List of Jerry Sandusky accusers growing?
"This in all likelihood means that there are other people who have come forward who have accused him of improper sexual conduct," said Wes Oliver, a Widener Law School professor who specializes in criminal law. Asked about the eight supposed accusers,
Updated: 05/04/2012 09:18P
List of Jerry Sandusky accusers growing?
"This in all likelihood means that there are other people who have come forward who have accused him of improper sexual conduct," said Wes Oliver, a Widener Law School professor who specializes in criminal law. Asked about the eight supposed accusers,
Updated: 05/04/2012 09:18P
Crime and mistaken memory
We have about 20 or 30 documented wrongful convictions,” says Alan Young, the co-founder and director of the Innocence Project at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto. Psychological and neuroscience research have chipped away at the
Updated: 05/04/2012 08:59P
Fewer drunk drivers caught since BC law struck down
In the fallout, the province promised that drunk drivers would still be caught and charged the old way -- through the Criminal Code. Since then, an average of about 318 impaired charges has been approved and 456 recommended by police every month.
Updated: 05/04/2012 08:58P
LUMS holds moot on criminal justice system
invited at LUMS on Friday to speak at a conference on criminal justice, titled 'The Criminal Justice System: Towards a Systematic Approach-Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific'. The conference was organised by the Hamdard School of Law, Karachi.
Updated: 05/04/2012 08:57P
Tenacious pursuit of war criminal
The message from the International Criminal Court is that those despots and oppressors engaging in war crimes will be held accountable. The demonstrated tenacity that followed Taylor after he went into exile in 2003, continued through his arrest in
Updated: 05/04/2012 08:51P
Sandusky defense court filing indicates other 'accusers'
"This in all likelihood means that there are other people who have come forward who have accused him of improper sexual conduct," said Wes Oliver, a Widener Law School professor who specializes in criminal law. Asked about the eight supposed accusers,
Updated: 05/04/2012 08:50P
Sindh Assembly: Law and order, a matter of little concern for MPAs
She thought that all these factors were contributing to the deteriorating law and order in the province. Another woman MPA, Shamin Ara Panhwar, however, lauded the efforts of the government and claimed that crime rate has fallen in Sindh.
Updated: 05/04/2012 08:43P
MPA wants Karachi to learn from NYC
Meanwhile, PPP legislator Ghulam Mujadid Isran presented news clips from 2006 when crime was rampant in Karachi, and argued that the PPP-led regime had inherited a bad law and order situation. The PPP legislator also blamed the courts for letting
Updated: 05/04/2012 08:29P
Lyari operation inconclusive: criminals given 48 hours to surrender
The decision to withdraw police and other law enforcers from their positions in Lyari with the deadline of 48 hours to the gangsters to surrender, is said to have been aimed at paving the way for their escape. The surgical operation, which remained
Updated: 05/04/2012 07:44P
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