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Law Officers Go To Extra Lengths To Catch Interstate Killer
(DeSoto County, MS) Most people have rarely seen the kind of effort put forth to catch a criminal than with the highway murders of the last week. Now the heat is on, and officers say they're determined to find their man. Since State investigators in
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:01P
Dan Norris
Reason for running and what makes you best: Law enforcement experience, education, training and knowledge of local public safety issues make me the best candidate. My Montgomery County law enforcement experience, upper level management and
Updated: 05/15/2012 06:46P
Brett Ligon
The management staff alone brings over 100 years of experience in criminal prosecution. It is easy to see why the District Attorney's office has changed this community with the help of other law enforcement officials and dedicated members of this
Updated: 05/15/2012 06:46P
Brewer vetoes bill that would criminalize police officers' enforcement of
Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would made criminals of police officers who enforce controversial provisions of a federal anti-terrorism law. SB1182 would have made it a Class 1 misdemeanor offense for a police officer to enforce two sections of the
Updated: 05/15/2012 06:45P
A Tale of Two Carlos: Texas Put An Innocent Man To Death, Concludes Columbia
On Tuesday, Columbia University's Human Rights Law Review (CUHRLR) posted online a 400-page investigation into the execution of Carlos DeLuna, who was put to death in 1989 for the murder of Corpus Christi gas station clerk Wanda Lopez. The crime was
Updated: 05/15/2012 06:28P
Update: Barrett demands Walker explain 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 06:09P
Author to discuss political relations, military and defense
Mr. Missakian is a California product, attending USC as an undergrad (graduated Phi Beta Kappa), Georgetown for law school (what does he think about Sandra Fluke?), where he edited the American Criminal Law Review (is that a magazine about criminal law
Updated: 05/15/2012 06:01P
Police To Fight Crime With Focused Deterrence
A coalition of law enforcement agencies have announced a new plan that they hope will help reduce violence in Kansas City's urban core. The coalition, which calls itself the Kansas City No Violence Alliance, said it will begin using a system of focused
Updated: 05/15/2012 05:55P
Wrongful execution of Carlos DeLuna: highlights from our Reddit discussion
Asking the death penalty to do the work of solid police investigation, crime prevention, etc. is not an effective way to deter crime. The study that i recently published -- Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law -- finds that the death penalty is largely
Updated: 05/15/2012 05:51P
Impacts of Criminal Procedural Law Amendments on Investigations of Bribery Cases
On 14 March 2012, the Decision of the National People's Congress on Amending the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China (the Decision) was promulgated; it will come into force on 1 January 2013. The Decision includes significant
Updated: 05/15/2012 05:36P
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