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Police cadets graduate
The attendants received classes in the Military Service Law, the Qatari Penal Code, special laws, the duties of different police sections, criminal investigation and inquiry skills, human rights, police operations, security guards, first aid, traffic,
Updated: 03/10/2011 05:02P
Prison Escapee Seen in Houston Hospital
HOUSTON - Officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and law enforcement officers are conducting a search for an inmate who escaped from a prison unit in Beaumont. They say video shows he entered a hospital in the Texas Medical Center with
Updated: 03/10/2011 04:56P
House Judiciary Committee won't remove gay sex ban from Kansas law
The House Judiciary Committee was considering legislation designed to cleanup language in the state's criminal code when the panel's top Republican and Democrat removed a provision that would have repealed the law. Rep. Jan Pauls, D-Hutchinson,
Updated: 03/10/2011 04:55P
Hungary's shameful human-rights record
Many of the human-rights violations cited appear to have been perpetrated by law-enforcement officers against the very people they are supposed to serve and protect. Comparing the findings of these reports with the Human Rights Watch 1996 report Rights
Updated: 03/10/2011 04:53P
Panel recommends against dismissal of Widener professor — for now
10 that some students in his spring 2010 criminal law class had complained to administrators about offensive statements concerning women and minorities — including his discussion of the theoretical murder of Ammons, a black woman.
Updated: 03/10/2011 04:45P
Voices: The revolutions of yore
The third branch was the judiciary, learned men of the law who gave up the wig but clung to the robe. The laws were changed little. Laws affecting real and personal property, no change; contract law, no change; criminal law, no change; tort law,
Updated: 03/10/2011 04:44P
Governor Quinn Sets The Right Tone With Abolition Of Illinois Death Penalty
A lifetime in criminal law has taught me one thing above all else: It is all tragedy, every bit of it. As a prosecutor, when I won a case after months of work there was no joy in winning. A conviction does not un-murder a man or un-rape a woman.
Updated: 03/10/2011 04:16P
China making all the right moves but doubts linger
And China has just adopted its own 'Cifius' regulations, to determine if foreign investments affect its national security. This came after several proposed Chinese investments were rejected by foreign governments on the grounds that the investments
Updated: 03/10/2011 04:02P
4 Baltimoreans To Watch
“Who knows what the future will hold?” In 2005, Adam Marks was working in radio sales. Like many, he dreamed of owning his own business. In his mind, he batted around an idea about restaurant couponing and thought up a name for the endeavor.
Updated: 03/10/2011 04:02P
Update in the Case of the Criminal Law Professor Who May Be Fired For His
By The Volokh Conspiracy on 03/10/2011 – 11:45 am PST Readers will remember the case of Lawrence Connell, the tenured Widener Law School criminal law professor who was put on leave and may be fired because of his classroom hypotheticals.
Updated: 03/10/2011 03:56P
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