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Legislator calls for mandatory jail time for bias, voyeurism crimes
“He was convicted of criminal charges,” she said. “He should have been sentenced to appropriate time in prison. Instead, he received a slap on the hand.” Angelini is researching current bias crime law to determine whether she will work on strengthening
Updated: 05/22/2012 06:36P
Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
Punishment Project at 6:09pm This week, Northwestern and the University of Michigan law schools released a National Registry of Exonerations, a new database chronicling the ever-growing number of exonerees from our nation's criminal justice system.
Updated: 05/22/2012 06:26P
U.S. opens Chipotle securities law investigation
by the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, regarding possible criminal securities law violations for its disclosures related to various probes by government agencies into the immigration statuses of Chipotle's employees.
Updated: 05/22/2012 06:20P
US opens Chipotle securities law investigation
by the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, regarding possible criminal securities law violations for its disclosures related to various probes by government agencies into the immigration statuses of Chipotle's employees.
Updated: 05/22/2012 06:20P
Chipotle: U.S. Attorney's Office adding securities law violations to probe
Chipotle Mexican Grill said Tuesday the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia is investigating possible criminal securities law violations related to the chain's immigration compliance practices. The Denver-based fast-casual chain is also
Updated: 05/22/2012 06:16P
'TELL JURIES ABOUT PREVIOUS CRIMES'
By Dean Herbert The Scottish Law Commission has called for the long-standing blanket ban on such evidence to be lifted because it lacks “both logic and coherence”. In Scotland, jurors are not told of previous convictions until a defendant's guilty plea
Updated: 05/22/2012 06:08P
Thousands take to the streets
outrage over a provincial law aimed at containing the very sort of march they staged. But within three hours of the march's start, police were reporting that criminal acts were being committed as the windows of at least one bank were smashed.
Updated: 05/22/2012 05:29P
File-Sharing Habits Unhindered by Criminal Crackdown
Generally speaking, most people conform to the dictates of the law because the law proscribes bad behavior: don't kill, don't steal, don't set stuff on fire if it doesn't belong to you, that sort of thing. But the effort to lump file-sharing into the
Updated: 05/22/2012 05:27P
Thousands take to the streets on 100th day of strike
outrage over a provincial law aimed at containing the very sort of march they staged. But within three hours of the march's start, police were reporting that criminal acts were being committed as the windows of at least one bank were smashed.
Updated: 05/22/2012 05:23P
Rutgers webcam case rekindles debate over hate crimes
He had no reason to, but I do believe he acted out of colossal insensitivity. The dramatic and emotional saga reignited, in practical terms, some questions where philosophy eclipses law: What is hate, and how can it be a crime?
Updated: 05/22/2012 05:21P
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