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Pot ring bust yields 19 arrests, over $1 million in drugs
A year-long federal investigation into a large-scale pot ring based out of Contra Costa County culminated in law enforcement arresting 19 people and seizing massive quantities of marijuana, weapons and cash Wednesday morning, according to the DEA
Updated: 05/16/2012 08:01P
Drone Assassination Legal and Moral Violations by the Numbers
Premeditated murder is a crime in all fifty states and under federal criminal law. These murders are also the textbook definition of assassination, which is murder by sudden or secret attack for political reasons. In 1976 US President Gerald Ford
Updated: 05/16/2012 07:54P
The United States: Where Pregnancy is Probationary and Your Body is A Crime Scene
This is particularly true in the case of insidious chemical endangerment laws, which demonstrate as Bei Bei Shua's case does, the danger of turning health issues into criminal issues. Chemical endangerment laws in particular ignore actual scientific
Updated: 05/16/2012 07:50P
The United States: Where Pregnancy is Probationary and Your Body is A Crime Scene
This is particularly true in the case of insidious chemical endangerment laws, which demonstrate as Bei Bei Shua's case does, the danger of turning health issues into criminal issues. Chemical endangerment laws in particular ignore actual scientific
Updated: 05/16/2012 07:50P
Bill C-38: How Harper's Trojan Horse Will Undo Canada
This includes ratifying and making the Shiprider a legal and permanent program which will require amending the Criminal Code, along with the RCMP and Customs Act. The joint initiative officially known as the Integrated Cross-Border Maritime Law
Updated: 05/16/2012 07:48P
Bill C-38: How Harper's Trojan Horse Will Undo Canada
This includes ratifying and making the Shiprider a legal and permanent program which will require amending the Criminal Code, along with the RCMP and Customs Act. The joint initiative officially known as the Integrated Cross-Border Maritime Law
Updated: 05/16/2012 07:48P
Gurgaon hit-and-run ignites legal debate over treatment of accused
From Alistair Pereira to Sanjeev Nanda, the question of whether hit-and-run drivers should be charged under a stringent section (Section 304-II) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) or a lenient one (Section 304A) has been a matter of debate among legal
Updated: 05/16/2012 07:16P
Justice for Srebrenica
Already the court can claim other achievements, says Gerhard Werle, the author of a standard textbook on international criminal law and professor at Berlin's Humboldt University. It established the standard of individual rather than collective guilt
Updated: 05/16/2012 06:38P
War crimes courts and tribunals proliferate
The first Hague convention of 1899 tried to formulate laws prohibiting war crimes. The international criminal court, founded in 2002, is the latest embodiment of the determination to outlaw genocide and crimes against humanity.
Updated: 05/16/2012 06:19P
Law enforcement officer deaths increase
So far a dozen educators have requested hearings after their contracts wereMore >> You can be the key to solving crime. A recent violent home invasion in Albany is proof. A long-time criminal charged with beating a 79-year-old Albany woman in her home
Updated: 05/16/2012 06:17P
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