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The European Parliament “deplores the fact that a number of legal provisions such as Articles 301, 318 and 220(6), in combination with Article 314(2), of the penal code, and Article 7(2) of the anti-terror law, Law No. 5816 of 25 July 1951 -- as well
Updated: 03/10/2011 07:21P
LIBERALS AND NEO-LIBERALS
He, in the company of his home minister, chose to go astray in picking an individual against whom a high court of the country had approved criminal prosecution on the ground of corruption and the case was still pending. The issue is as much of legality
Updated: 03/10/2011 06:44P
Jones Day > Further Internal Control in Spanish Businesses
Criminal liability of legal entities is applicable only with respect to certain offenses specifically identified in the Spanish Criminal Code such as fraud; bankruptcy involving criminal negligence; offenses against intellectual and industrial property
Updated: 03/10/2011 05:55P
Venezuela requested to prevent the criminal way in trials against the media
In her opinion, this "does not mean that government officials lack honor, but it should be defended under civil law instead of using criminal law against a journalist or a media outlet." Botero explained that in the upcoming OAS report on freedom of
Updated: 03/10/2011 05:47P
Criminal Law: Post-Conviction Relief – Effectiveness Of Counsel
Where a defendant sought post-conviction relief on the grounds that his counsel was ineffective for failing to call an alibi witness, sufficient evidence supported the finding that the decision not to call the witness was a
Updated: 03/10/2011 05:30P
Criminal Law: Jury Trial – Waiver – Financial Responsibility Law
Where a trial court conducted a bench trial without first obtaining any waiver of a defendant's right to a jury trial in open court and entered of record, the defendant's felony conviction for leaving the scene of an accident is
Updated: 03/10/2011 05:26P
Criminal Law: Sentencing – Case History Documents – ACCA
Where a district court held that a criminal defendant's case history and 1999 presentencing investigation report were inadmissible for showing predicate offenses under the Armed Career Criminal Act, the case must be remanded
Updated: 03/10/2011 05:16P
Criminal Law: Habeas Relief – Mistrial – Double Jeopardy
(1) Where a defendant in a murder case argued that his second trial violated double jeopardy, the defendant failed to show that the prosecutor intended to force a mistrial in the first trial, so there was no constitutional
Updated: 03/10/2011 05:16P
Criminal Law: Firearm Offense – Constructive Possession
Where the government presented evidence that a defendant had a safe in his office with a gun and ammunition and that he made statements about opening the safe to get his gun, the evidence was sufficient to support the
Updated: 03/10/2011 05:12P
Criminal Law: Effectiveness Of Counsel – Hearsay – Fair Sentencing Act
(1) Where a defendant argued that his counsel was ineffective when he failed to object to hearsay testimony, the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding no reasonable probability that but for the failure,
Updated: 03/10/2011 05:06P
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