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FTC Picks Up Privacy Legal Scholar As New Policy Adviser
Ohm focuses his work on computer crime law, intellectual property, information privacy and criminal procedure, with a strong emphasis on how changing technology impacts individual privacy, according to his university biography.
Updated: 05/21/2012 07:13P
Why wrongful convictions? Lies, mistaken eyewitnesses top the list.
The number is tiny compared with the hundreds of millions of criminal cases handled over the same period, says Samuel Gross, a University of Michigan law professor and lead author. The figure is based on formal decisions by courts or executive officers
Updated: 05/21/2012 07:10P
Will hike in judges' number foster justice?
On the constraint of court rules, observers argued that there was the need for the Federal High Court to review particularly, its criminal procedure rules to effectively marry the provisions in the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State,
Updated: 05/21/2012 07:05P
Government should widen laws to combat widespread labour abuse
The Government should act urgently to stop the widespread abuse of foreign workers, say crime experts at The University of Manchester. Professor Kauko Aromaa and Dr Jon Spencer, from the University's School of Law, say legislation drawn up after the
Updated: 05/21/2012 07:03P
More Than 2000 Wrongful Convictions Since 1989
Two universities have released what they say is the largest database of criminal exonerations in the US ever put together. The registry was assembled by the law schools at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University.
Updated: 05/21/2012 06:58P
Data digitization of criminals to be completed within 2 months, says senior cop
COIMBATORE: The city police have sped up efforts to compile a database of criminals and digitally link all police stations within its limits, for effective maintenance of law and order. The works are part of the Criminal and Crime Integration Technical
Updated: 05/21/2012 06:50P
How America's death penalty murders innocents
The University of Michigan law school and Northwestern University have compiled a new National Registry of Exonerations – a database of over 2000 prisoners exonerated between 1989 and the present day, when DNA evidence has been widely used to clear the
Updated: 05/21/2012 06:50P
Seeing Is Believing: Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Is Possible
The idea of a national criminal justice commission has gained bipartisan support in Congress as well as support from a range of stakeholder groups representing law enforcement, state and local governments. A bipartisan national criminal justice
Updated: 05/21/2012 06:45P
£100 fine if your garden is a tip: Homeowners who dump rubbish face on-the
This week hundreds of AA members will begin a string of litter-picks across the country, adding to the widespread support for the Daily Mail's Spring Clean For The Queen campaign to encourage people to help clean up their communities ahead of the
Updated: 05/21/2012 06:16P
Analysis has Washington County leading the crime-solving pack in 2010
By Tom Walsh, BDN Staff MACHIAS, Maine — The latest report by the Maine Department of Public Safety shows law enforcement agencies in Washington County had the state's best track record for solving crimes in 2010 while Penobscot County had the lowest
Updated: 05/21/2012 06:00P
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