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Ammiano proposes Sex Offender Registration Act
“Sex offender” is a blanket category in California's criminal code. When allocating resources to track them, there isn't much discrimination by corrections officials between first-time, non-violent offenders and high-risk sexual
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:55A
China drops death penalty in 'symbolic' move
The official Xinhua News Agency said it was the first time the communist government has reduced the number of crimes that are subject to the death penalty since 1979, when the Criminal Law took effect. But an expert said the move was unlikely to
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:34A
PEOPLE v. AVILES
When shown his rap sheet, defendant explained it contained misdemeanors and the prosecutor was trying to make him look like a bad criminal. Defendant's common law wife testified that she waited in the car while defendant went into Save Mart.
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:34A
Beijing proposes death penalty for organ traffickers
Previously those convicted of forced organ removal were charged with illegal business operation, since there is no specific offence covering the act in China's criminal law, the report said. The amendment was submitted Wednesday to the National
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:34A
PEOPLE v. JOHNSON
The trial court sentenced defendant to eight months in state prison on count 1, two years in state prison on count 2, two years in state prison on count 3, and 180 days in county jail on count 4. The court stayed the sentence on count 2,
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:33A
PEOPLE v. MOORE
Several decades ago, former section 1387 provided that an order dismissing a criminal action was "a bar to any other prosecution for the same offense if it is a misdemeanor, but not if it is a felony." (Burris v. Superior Court (2005) 34 Cal.4th 1012,
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:32A
China drops death penalty for some crimes
State media say the Standing Committee of China's legislature, the National People's Congress, approved the amended Criminal Law on Friday. The revision rules out capital punishment for smuggling, theft, financial fraud and 10 other nonviolent offenses
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:32A
PEOPLE v. LEWIS
The trial court determined that the plea was knowing, intelligent, free and voluntary, and that there was a factual basis for the plea. The court accepted the plea, found appellant guilty, and found that he admitted the special allegations.
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:32A
China scraps death penalty for some crimes
The standing committee of China's National People's Congress passed an amendment to the nation's criminal law that took 13 offences off the list of 68 crimes punishable by death, the legislature said on its website. “The 13 crimes that have been
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:31A
PEOPLE v. PEDROZA
The information also alleged that the robberies were committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang. Appellant pled not guilty and was tried by jury. He was found guilty of robbing Ordonez (count 2) and of commercial burglary.
Updated: 02/25/2011 07:30A
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