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Eavesdropping Law Shut Down Pending Lawsuit
This has created controversy when it comes to recording the police doing their daily activities, but a Federal Court just shut down this eavesdropping law after reviewing a pending lawsuit. Illinois law says recording the police without their consent
Updated: 05/15/2012 04:23P
Investigating an Execution
has occurred before addressing its implications for our criminal justice system and ourselves as moral human beings? How should lawyers and legal scholars engage the public on these issues, and what role can law students and law reviews play?
Updated: 05/15/2012 04:16P
Strong Marijuana Smell Does Not Justify Warrantless Search of Hotel Room
The two women were then arrested and later charged with burglary (Penal Code § 459) and grand theft (Penal Code § 487 (a)). In response to the charges, the two suspects filed a motion to suppress under Penal Code § 1538.5, arguing that there had been
Updated: 05/15/2012 04:07P
George W. 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: 05/15/2012 04:04P
U.S. Said to Start Probe of $2 Billion JPMorgan Trading Loss
Chief Investment Office The trading occurred in a portfolio of credit investments at a unit of the bank called the Chief Investment Office, which makes trades to balance the bank's assets and liabilities. The unit made trades in credit default swaps.
Updated: 05/15/2012 04:00P
Barrett to Walker: What's up with your legal defense fund?
Scott Walker's Democratic rival demanded Tuesday that the Republican disclose what advice state election officials gave him that prompted the formation of a criminal defense fund connected to a secret probe of his associates.
Updated: 05/15/2012 03:50P
In child abuse cases, law enforcement blesses the obstruction of justice
And, he said, the mother of a child in a wheelchair confronted Mr. Jungreis's mother-in-law, saying the same man had molested her son, and she 'did not report this crime, so why did your son-in-law have to?' ” That Times article also reported the
Updated: 05/15/2012 03:47P
Some sex offenders could be released
This comes after problems were reported with the Criminal Procedure (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 32 of 2007. The law states that it is against the law to sexually assault someone, but does not prescribe a punishment.
Updated: 05/15/2012 03:42P
Criminal Charges Against Pro-Life Advocates Dropped in South Dakota
Ms. Short spoke with the Sioux Falls city attorney, explaining that based on precedent in relevant case law the ordinance at issue was unconstitutional in its permit requirement. Following this conversation, the group was allowed to continue their
Updated: 05/15/2012 03:35P
US blacklists 2 lieutenants of Indian crime lord
A former Mexican law enforcement official has pleaded guilty in US District Court to aiding members of a violent Tijuana-based drug cartel, including helping traffickers get away with a double homicide in 2010. A former Mexican law enforcement official
Updated: 05/15/2012 03:26P
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