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State must pay ex-inmate $2 million
Kristopher Moore, one of Allen's attorneys, said the ruling should send a message to Combs that the state's top financial officer is not qualified to interpret criminal law. "The only body allowed to answer the question of innocence in a case like this
Updated: 05/18/2012 04:07P
Editorial: Safeguarding Data In A High-Tech World
This system of identifying vehicles on our roads has been successfully used by law enforcement to identify unregistered vehicles, stolen vehicles, and those used in crimes. Today, when a car or a license plate is stolen or a license plate number is
Updated: 05/18/2012 04:05P
Pot(ential) Business
Some worried about increases in crime and teen drug use, while others wanted to bring pain relief to people suffering from debilitating illness. Now that lawmakers have approved medical marijuana in Connecticut, and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appears ready
Updated: 05/18/2012 04:05P
Edwards is a cad, not a criminal
It is possible to shoehorn this conduct into a violation of the campaign finance laws. First, the money was not disclosed as a campaign contribution — although, Catch-22, if it had been reported as such, it would have been illegal because it was used
Updated: 05/18/2012 03:51P
After Law Enforcement Urge Congress To Abandon Anti-Holder Witchhunt, GOP
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey warned that Issa's crusade against Holder has “distracted the Department of Justice in its efforts to assist state and local law enforcement — particularly in the area of violent crime prevention and
Updated: 05/18/2012 03:34P
This Week in Civil Liberties (5/18/12)
By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 3:22pm Which law could be used to restrict the right to protest at next week's NATO summit? Which government watch list can you get on but are entirely at the government's mercy if you want to get off?
Updated: 05/18/2012 03:31P
Lawyer: Trayvon Martin's mom disturbed by 7-Eleven video moments before death
Under that law, people are given wide latitude to use deadly force rather than retreat in a fight if they believe they are in danger of being killed or seriously injured, they weren't committing a crime themselves and are in a place they have the legal
Updated: 05/18/2012 03:15P
Texas ordered to pay ex-inmate $2 million in precedent-setting wrongful
Most were freed through DNA testing or because their cases involved a drug detective in the Texas Panhandle town of Tulia who was later convicted of perjury. While DNA evidence has led to most of Texas' exonerations, those cases are expected to dwindle
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:55P
Supreme Court Suspends Justice Orie Melvin in Wake of Pending Charges
The grand jury presentments against Orie Melvin's sisters and testimony at Jane Orie's trial alleged state workers' time was spent on Orie Melvin's campaigns for Supreme Court in both 2003 and 2009 while she was a Superior Court judge. In a Dec.
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:53P
Employment Law Alert -- May 2012
by Ruskin Moscou Faltischek on 5/18/2012 Since we issued last month's Employment Alert informing you that Maryland was the first state to pass a law prohibiting employers from asking for password information, two bills were introduced in Congress
Updated: 05/18/2012 02:51P
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