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Jury Nullifcation Advocate: Legal Advocate or Criminal?
“Unless the government can show that he's singling out jurors to influence a specific verdict, it's squarely protected by the First Amendment, and they should dismiss the case.” On the other hand, Daniel C. Richman, a former prosecutor who teaches
Updated: 02/25/2011 11:54A
Jury Nullifcation Advocate: Legal Protester or Criminal?
On the other hand, Daniel C. Richman, a former prosecutor who teaches criminal law at Columbia, said the government does indeed have a compelling interest here — keeping intact the integrity of the jury process. “The government has to walk a fine First
Updated: 02/25/2011 11:54A
Gender bias
One such law is the Revised Penal Code (RPC) which took effect in 1932. Let me cite a few examples of certain crimes punished therein which exhibit an “old world” mentality and manifest a gender bias. Article 202 of the RPC punishes vagrants and
Updated: 02/25/2011 10:56A
KUSI News Weather Sports San Diego China drops death penalty for some economic
The newly revised Criminal Law comes into effect May 1. But an expert said the move was unlikely to significantly reduce executions, since people convicted of those crimes in the past have rarely received the maximum penalty and capital punishment can
Updated: 02/25/2011 10:52A
Train Driver Gets 4-Year Sentence for Fatal Crash
The accident left 34 dead and 50 injured, 15 of them severely. Judge Ahmad Rosidin, presiding over the trial at the Pemalang District Court, said the defendant had been proven guilty of failing to observe a stop signal, which carried a maximum sentence
Updated: 02/25/2011 10:37A
Quebec employer going to jail after Bill C-45 conviction
Pasquale Scrocca, the owner of a Quebec landscape company, is facing jail time after an accident at a worksite on June 12, 2006. Scrocca was moving soil with a backhoe as part of a landscaping job when the brakes failed and pinned an employee against a
Updated: 02/25/2011 10:33A
China Scraps Death Penalty for Some…
An amendment to the nation's criminal law took 13 offenses off the list of 68 crimes punishable by death, the country's legislature said. "The 13 crimes that have been exempted from the death penalty are mainly economic and non-violent crimes,"
Updated: 02/25/2011 10:27A
MP calls for restoration of powers to chiefs
Gomoa Awomberew (C/R), Feb 25, GNA - The Member of Parliament for Gomoa East, Mr Ekow Okyere Panyin, has suggested the revision of the Criminal Law to empower chiefs to settle minor offences including stealing, quarrelling and assaults to help reduce
Updated: 02/25/2011 10:26A
Nation,media to decide PPP's sincerity on 10-point agenda
issuance of exclusive value-added tax invoices to defraud export tax refunds or to offset taxes; the forging or selling of forged exclusive value-added tax invoices; the teaching of crime-committing methods; and robbing ancient cultural ruins.
Updated: 02/25/2011 10:25A
Section 498A IPC- Its Use & Misuse
It was introduced in the code by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1983 (Act 46 of 1983). By the same Act section 113-A has been added to the Indian Evidence Act to raise presumption regarding abetment of suicide by married woman.
Updated: 02/25/2011 10:05A
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