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Bill to fill overdose loophole advances in Illinois Senate
"The law is designed to discourage people from offering dangerous, illegal substances to people, causing their death," Haine told the Senate Criminal Law Committee Wednesday. "The law is obstructed if all the drug dealer has to do is go out of state,
Updated: 05/24/2012 01:10A
Wendi C. Thomas: $350 fee to expunge criminal record likely to shackle progress
Do you think certain nonviolent offenders should have to pay a $350 fee to have their record expunged, as mandated by the new state law? This is good news, given how often a criminal record keeps an offender from finding a job.
Updated: 05/24/2012 01:01A
Jindal signs law to crack down on sex offenders and gangs - KSLA-TV
Currently, sex offenders are required to register and provide certain information to law enforcement agencies, including their address, vehicle license plates, and on-line identifiers. Depending on the crime committed, offenders are supposed to
Updated: 05/23/2012 11:50P
'War on Drugs' opponent sees legal reform as human rights issue
“There's half a million people locked up tonight in the United States for violating the drug law — not for violent crime, not for predatory crime, but for engaging in an activity which our grandparents or great-grandparents could have,
Updated: 05/23/2012 11:34P
Former AG says legal defense fund may make Governor "culpable"
In a new attack ad, Barrett's campaign puts Scott Walker's legal issues front and center, pointing out that he's hired criminal attorneys using money from a legal defense fund. The Governor has not said who that fund was set up for, but under state law
Updated: 05/23/2012 11:24P
Does your attorney have a criminal background?
Those are some of the findings of the KHOU-TV 11 News I-Team after analyzing records from various criminal courts along with documents from the Texas State Bar. In 1996, she was caught using powder cocaine, on video, during an undercover law
Updated: 05/23/2012 11:12P
Crime Stoppers reveal new high-tech ways to help fight crime
MIKE HASKEY Instead, it's a method of catching criminal suspects that uses today's technology -- text messages, smartphone apps and websites. The Valley Area Crime Stoppers revealed Wednesday its foray into a brave new crime fighting world.
Updated: 05/23/2012 10:50P
Is it time to reconsider Australia's drug laws?
Rather than decriminalising drugs, taking away the profit motive of organised crime syndicates is an effective action that law enforcement can use to combat the drug trade through seizing assets that are deemed proceeds of crime, which in turn makes
Updated: 05/23/2012 10:09P
On the run for 12 years... but killer who holed up in Strabane could soon be
Under current Irish legislation an expert group, known officially as the Mental Health (Criminal Law) Review Board, must examine his mental condition within six months. The board, comprised of consultant psychiatrists and other medical and legal
Updated: 05/23/2012 09:56P
Committee OKs bill to expand drug-induced homicide law
Bill Haine, D-Alton, introduced the amendment last week, which has passed the senate's Criminal Law Committee. It would allow prosecutors to charge someone with drug-induced homicide even when the delivery of the drugs to the victim occurred outside
Updated: 05/23/2012 09:31P
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