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Packers player's sex case takes one day
That's rare but not unprecedented, according to a UW-Madison law professor. “It's obviously a departure from the usual procedure, but it is not unheard of in the court system,” said David E. Schultz, a UW-Madison professor who teaches criminal law and
Updated: 03/05/2011 11:20A
US report says Phl probes severely constrained by limited bank access
The report also cited human and drug trafficking, official corruption and investment scams as principal sources of criminal proceeds. With the Philippines' geographic position attractive to human and narcotics traffickers, and relatively open sea
Updated: 03/05/2011 10:54A
Packers player's case takes one day
That's rare but not unprecedented, according to a UW-Madison law professor. “It's obviously a departure from the usual procedure, but it is not unheard of in the court system,” said David E. Schultz, a UW-Madison professor who teaches criminal law and
Updated: 03/05/2011 09:50A
Supreme Court upholds ruling against Montreal strip clubs
According to the Criminal Code, it is illegal in Canada to be found "without lawful excuse, in a common bawdy-house." The judge in the 2007 case noted prostitution can occur even if the individuals don't "complete" a sexual act.
Updated: 03/05/2011 09:33A
America's much abused moral authority
that "several of the exceptional (interrogation) techniques, on their face, amount to violations of domestic criminal law and the (military criminal code)" and put "the interrogators and the chain of command at risk of criminal accusation".
Updated: 03/05/2011 09:00A
Tories must respect the law
The campaigns then returned the money to produce advertising. The resulting ads carried a "tag line" referring to the local candidate but according to the Elections Canada, they qualified as national advertising. Campaign spending rules are in place
Updated: 03/05/2011 06:10A
Political party must respect the law
Parliamentary secretary Pierre Poilievre likes to refer to the in-and-out affair as a "five-year-old accounting dispute." Surely five-year-olds comport themselves better than this. That the situation has festered for five years does not exonerate the
Updated: 03/05/2011 05:01A
Medvedev instructs to propose on better law over illegal gambling
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko noted the criminal schemes that violate the federal law on lottery games in their reports to the president. “The imperfect legislation, which regulates the relations in
Updated: 03/05/2011 02:53A
Turning a blind eye to the blood-thirsty clerics
Pakistan's blasphemy laws date from 1860 when colonial administrators wrote a single section dealing with religious offences into their new criminal law code. Section 295 provided for the punishment of anyone who “destroys, damages or defiles any place
Updated: 03/05/2011 02:00A
No law or code of conduct against torture
Every year there are scores of fake encounters in which the 'criminal' is killed by the police. In Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan by population there are fake police encounters on the special directions of top provincial authorities to the
Updated: 03/05/2011 01:55A
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