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Sheriff candidates share views with voters
Bill Wansley: “I have a high school education and some college hours with a completed course in Criminal Justice through Northeast Texas Community College. I served six years in the United States Marine Corps, deployed in Viet Nam. My career in law
Updated: 05/16/2012 05:26P
TB patient charged in Calif for not taking meds
"The criminal cases we're dealing with generally involve drug users who are harder to treat and manage because the TB medicines conflict with street drugs," he said. "We have to throw these people in jail and treat them as in-patients.
Updated: 05/16/2012 04:53P
Government working on private sector corruption law
Existing laws only criminalise corruption amongst public servants. A manager in a private firm accepting money for awarding a contract isn'ta crime under bribery laws. The distinction was made since public sector corruption takes a toll on efficiency
Updated: 05/16/2012 04:40P
JPMorgan loss target of a criminal inquiry
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has initiated a criminal investigation into the $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase, a law enforcement source familiar with the situation said yesterday. The inquiry is at a very early stage, said the person
Updated: 05/16/2012 04:37P
Norfolk man nabbed under new law
By Daniel R. Pearce, Simcoe Reformer A Walsingham man will be sentenced in November after pleading guilty to a relatively new charge in the Criminal Code of Canada: possession of equipment knowing it will be used to make drugs.
Updated: 05/16/2012 04:28P
Lawyers: Criminal probe targets egg magnate, aides
It's a single community, but the division is sharp when it comes to the cutthroat business of economic development.More >> The states of Missouri and Kansas are divided only by the yellow stripe of State Line Road. It's a single community,
Updated: 05/16/2012 04:05P
Shankman Stepping Down As Federal Public Defender
There are no health issues,” he said this week, the day after the notice for applicants was posted on the website of the US District Court for West Tennessee. “It's just time.” His successor will be appointed by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Updated: 05/16/2012 04:03P
ICC may seem Africa-centric, but hopefully this will come to be seen as
This week alone there's Charles Taylor's sentencing hearing at the special court for Sierra Leone, the opening of Ratko Mladic's trial at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and Khaled el-Masri's extraordinary rendition case
Updated: 05/16/2012 03:33P
Too Big to Jail Brandon Garrett and Corporate Crime
“No, if anything they are kind of similar,” Garrett told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last week. “For environmental cases – are customers going to stop buying the products of a company that makes plastics or steel because their factory was
Updated: 05/16/2012 03:31P
Report: Texas Executed The Wrong Man Because He Looked Like The Real Murderer
Yet a new book written by Columbia Law Professor James Liebman shows that Carlos DeLuna, executed by Texas in 1989, was innocent. According to Liebman, DeLuna was wrongfully convicted and executed for the murder of Wanda Lopez following a botched
Updated: 05/16/2012 03:29P
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