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US law enforcement fabricate crimes due to political agenda - Bout
The jail in Colorado is known as the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies', and houses America's most-dangerous and violent criminals. Bout's lawyer wants the decision stalled. RT: You are sentenced to a quarter of a century behind bars. What does it feel like?
Updated: 05/13/2012 10:09A

Thugs in debt to lax laws
"John Brumby's soft-on-crime approach has turned Victoria into a haven for criminal bikie gangs," he said two months before taking the state's reins. But 18 months on, we can today report that Victoria remains the only state to provide an almost
Updated: 05/13/2012 10:07A

States crack down on penalties for choking
Anti-domestic violence groups leading the effort say the laws are intended to not only secure tougher punishments for domestic abusers but also to promote awareness of a crime they say often precedes homicide - yet is chronically under-prosecuted.
Updated: 05/13/2012 09:44A

States cracking down on strangulation attempts
AP Sports News Video States across the country are stiffening penalties for domestic violence assaults that involve attempts to strangle someone. States across the country are stiffening penalties for domestic violence assaults that involve attempts to
Updated: 05/13/2012 09:10A

Sexual offences act flaws cripple fight against such crimes: DA
"On Friday, the Cape High Court held that certain sections of the act, affecting 29 sexual offences, did not contain any penalty clauses, and therefore nobody can be charged with any of these acts...," Democratic Alliance justice spokeswoman Debbie
Updated: 05/13/2012 09:06A

Delegations attending workshop on military criminal law leave country
Luanda– The delegations of Brazil, Nigeria, Zambia and Congo Brazzaville, which attended on 9-11 May in Luanda the international seminar on military criminal law and 6th meeting of International Association of Military Justices, left on Saturday for
Updated: 05/13/2012 09:01A

Study: Most Criminal Cases Resolved With Plea Bargain
A study by Haifa University's law studies department shows that 70% of the cases that are adjudicated in Israeli district courts, which handle major criminal cases, end in a conviction of some sort. Out of those convicted, however, 86% agree to a plea
Updated: 05/13/2012 08:01A

Will take law into hands: Athawale
Ramdas Athawale threatened to take the law into his hands if people responsible for including the controversial cartoon in a NCERT book are not jailed. Mr Athawale on Saturday asked the Centre to take criminal action against the officials involved in
Updated: 05/13/2012 06:07A

Law chiefs grab £10m of crooks' cash and assets
They vowed to make the country a “hostile” environment” for the evil drug dealers, money launderers and fraudsters who were stripped of over £7million in cash, cars, houses, bling and even RACEHORSES in one ongoing case. Another £3.5million was
Updated: 05/13/2012 06:02A

South Florida Women Claim Racial Discrimination At Fontainebleau Hotel Nightclub
*MIAMI BEACH – Florida civil rights and criminal law attorney David Kubiliun is representing four South Florida women who claim they were not allowed to attend an upscale party the Arkadia Lounge inside Miami Beach's famous Fountainebleau Hotel because
Updated: 05/13/2012 05:51A