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Currency case: Charges against Karmapa dropped
The Karmapa was charged under Section 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He was the 10th accused in the seizure of currencies of 26 countries, including 120197 Chinese yuan and around Rs. 5.3 million in Indian currency,
Updated: 05/21/2012 11:08A
Study: 2000 convicted then exonerated in the US in 23 years
Edmunds is one of more than 2000 people falsely convicted of a serious crime who have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new national registry painstakingly assembled by the University of Michigan Law School and
Updated: 05/21/2012 11:07A
Sudanese female minor sentenced to death by stoning
Intisar Sharif Abdalla, believed to be between 15 and 17 years of age (although prison authorities claim she is 20) was sentenced to death in accordance with Article 146 of the Sudanese criminal law albeit without legal representation.
Updated: 05/21/2012 11:06A
Foundations Award Justice Pioneers
Recipients include an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and lecturer at Harvard Law School whose film will explore the groundbreaking role that states can play to further more humane and rational drug policies, and a California law student who, as a teenager
Updated: 05/21/2012 10:53A
Move over, CSI. It's usually good old fashioned police work that catches most
Dettelbach said that the use of stings and informants sometimes gets a bad rap in the media; some people try to paint the methods as a form of entrapment. The techniques have been fundamental to stop crime for decades, well before “Law & Order” made
Updated: 05/21/2012 10:48A
Report: 101 People Sentenced To Die Were Later Exonerated
Report: 101 People Sentenced To Die Were Later Exonerated | A new report by the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project of Michigan and Northwestern law schools, chronicles over 2000 cases where a person convicted of a crime was later
Updated: 05/21/2012 10:38A
Report: 101 People Sentenced To Die Were Later Exonerated
Report: 101 People Sentenced To Die Were Later Exonerated | A new report by the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project of Michigan and Northwestern law schools, chronicles over 2000 cases where a person convicted of a crime was later
Updated: 05/21/2012 10:38A
What to Expect as a First Year Law Student
During the first year, you will take some combination of Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal Research and Writing, Property Law, and Torts, with the possibility, in some cases, of an elective in your
Updated: 05/21/2012 10:33A
Charges against Karmapa in criminal conspiracy case dropped
The Karmapa was charged under Section 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He was the 10th accused in the seizure of currencies of 26 countries, including 120197 Chinese yuan and around Rs.5.3 million in Indian currency,
Updated: 05/21/2012 10:22A
Governing Policing
The independent auditor's report: In 2006, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Baltimore City Police Department claiming that BPD was improperly arresting thousands of individuals each year who were not and could not be prosecuted.
Updated: 05/21/2012 10:17A
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