Latest Criminal Law News
Law professor's suit against casebook co-author is dismissed
The two professors wrote a criminal law casebook that Aspen Publishers released in 2005. Judge Susan Illston's Dec. 23 decision dismissed with prejudice
Updated: 01/03/2011 10:25P
Law against online impersonation not needed in Canada: experts
A new California law that makes it illegal to impersonate someone online is not necessary in this country because the Criminal Code already prohibits
Updated: 01/03/2011 07:05P
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe Announces Pardons
Rock District Court), the fact that all terms of the applicant's sentence have been completed and there have been no further criminal-law violations.
Updated: 01/03/2011 06:23P
Divided Canadian Supreme Court Infertility Treatment Ruling
not fall under the criminal law power, but belong to the jurisdiction over hospitals, property, and civil rights, and matters of a merely local nature.
Updated: 01/03/2011 05:52P
Sharia and Day to Day Existence
Muslims might seek to modify, eg, banking regulations to reflect Islam's ban on usury, or certain family and criminal law provisions (most of this applying
Updated: 01/03/2011 04:10P
Ceremony scheduled for Jan. 14 to swear in new district judge
53, is spending the next few days wrapping up her private law practice that primarily consists of criminal law and civil litigation.
Updated: 01/03/2011 03:30P
Ampatuan protests bid for state witnesses
The 62-page memorandum was submitted to Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes of Regional Trial Court Branch 221 on December 29. The main suspect in the November 23,
Updated: 01/03/2011 03:16P
More Va. inmates destined for local jails
Anthony S. Barkow, executive director of the Center of the Administration of Criminal Law at New York University, said keeping inmates in local jails can be
Updated: 01/03/2011 03:00P
DoJ Appoints New Deputy Attorney General
He also counseled businesses on securities, regulatory, and criminal law issues. While in private practice in 1995, Cole was tapped to serve as Special
Updated: 01/03/2011 01:42P
COURT REFUSES TO GRANT EX-JUDGE RICHARDS BAIL
When the court resumed, the trial magistrate ruled that the accused will not be granted bail now. He then adjourned the matter to Monday, 3rd January 2011.
Updated: 01/03/2011 01:10P