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A Miller resident who recently moved from Chicago was arrested Saturday afternoon and charged with conversion and criminal trespass. “I used to scrap in Illinois, we just moved here,” John Wise, 33, told Gary City Court Judge Pro Tem Itsia Rivera on
Updated: 05/14/2012 05:44P
California ballot measure on death penalty faces legal challenge
The Sacramento-based Criminal Justice Legal Foundation petitioned the 3rd District Court of Appeals today to remove from the November ballot a proposal to abolish the death penalty in California, arguing it violates the state's "single-subject rule"
Updated: 05/14/2012 05:09P
Senate to act on bill to protect remains of crime victims
Michael Ranzenhofer, R-Amherst, that would close a loophole in the state health law that gave a Western New York man who killed his wife the sole rights to her remains. In 2009, Constance Shepherd of Tonawanda was brutally murdered by her husband,
Updated: 05/14/2012 05:00P
Bump California death penalty measure from November ballot, group says
The ballot language is "deceptive" and conflicts with state rules that limit voter initiatives to a single subject the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation argues in a petition filed with the Sacramento-based 3rd District Court of Appeal.
Updated: 05/14/2012 04:50P
Wiley Rein LLP | Criminal Acts Exclusion Triggered without Criminal
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, applying Kentucky law, has held that a criminal acts exclusion applied to bar indemnity coverage for a judgment against a doctor in a medical malpractice action because the doctor admitted the
Updated: 05/14/2012 04:41P
Protesters: No jail for ex-student in Rutgers webcam case
Several hundred protesters gathered Monday at the New Jersey State House to show support for a former Rutgers student convicted of bias intimidation and to call attention to what they see as injustices in New Jersey's hate-crime laws.
Updated: 05/14/2012 04:40P
Relevance of ICC judgment against Charles Taylor to SL
by Neville Ladduwahetty Charles Taylor, the warlord who became President of Liberia from 1997 to 2003 was found guilty by the International Criminal Court in the Hague for "aiding and abetting" the rebel movement called the Revolutionary United Front
Updated: 05/14/2012 04:40P
Lacey Act Reform: Institute for Legal Reform Testimony
It lacks a meaningful mens rea (wrongful intent) requirement, instead imposing vicarious criminal and civil liability on American citizens for violations of a vast, uncharted universe of foreign laws, regulations, decrees and ordinances.
Updated: 05/14/2012 04:23P
Edwards' defense focuses on campaign finance law
GREENSBORO, NC - It was the defense's turn in the criminal trial of John Edwards today. The defense focused on the nuts and bolts of campaign finance law. His attorneys argued the federal government is even split on if Edwards broke the law when
Updated: 05/14/2012 04:21P
Former President George Bush Convicted of War Crimes
Granted, this isn't a powerful country who held this trial, and the conviction won't do much, and it's mostly symbolic...but it will send a clear message to the United States that it is not above international law. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes
Updated: 05/14/2012 04:08P
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