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Polygamists ought to be criminally prosecuted, lawyer tells Supreme Court
That's the position laid out by the BC attorney general's lead lawyer Monday as the reference case to determine whether Canada's 120-year-old criminal law against polygamy ought to be struck down entered its final phase in BC Supreme Court.
Updated: 03/28/2011 10:22P
Local Shooting Case Heads to Supreme Court
Robert Batey, a criminal law professor at Stetson University College of Law, said the court's justices only decide about 75 cases a year. "It is quite rare for any kind of legal question to go before the United States Supreme Court," he said.
Updated: 03/28/2011 10:21P
Candidates all talk tough on crime
St. Amand, a local criminal lawyer and former MP, said it would be good to see child sex crimes join a trend in the Criminal Code to impose more mandatory sentences for crimes against people. "Violating a vulnerable defenceless child is a despicable
Updated: 03/28/2011 09:53P
2 Ex-Partners Battle Former Law Firm Over 300 Allegedly Swiped Case Files
refrain from working together or for any clients of their former firm, reports the Scottish Sun. The two lawyers formerly headed the criminal law department of the Glasgow firm and the files are estimated to have a value of approximately 500000 pounds.
Updated: 03/28/2011 08:41P
Wrongfully convicted men say NC bill would turn back the hands of justice
There is a new effort underway at the General Assembly to change the rules when it comes to what evidence prosecutors must share with defense attorneys. Men who spent years in prison for crimes they did not commit say a law like this one
Updated: 03/28/2011 07:39P
DPP Law Nominated for Prestigious Law Society Criminal Defence Award
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Updated: 03/28/2011 07:01P
Wisconsin not prosecuting sexting DA
"Our prosecutors have concluded that they cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed a specific violation of a criminal law," Cosh said. Kratz, a Republican, had served as Calumet County's district attorney since 1992.
Updated: 03/28/2011 06:23P
Transgender rights bill killed by election
in the Canadian Human Rights Act, as well as amending the hate crimes and sentencing provisions of the Criminal Code. It passed third reading by a vote of 143 to 135 in February, 2011, but still had to be passed by the Senate before becoming law.
Updated: 03/28/2011 05:53P
Deputy DA loves to teach
Separate from his attorney obligations, two days a week Layh teaches a Texas Civil Litigation and Criminal Law class as part of the paralegal associate's degree at Odessa College. “To be honest, I think I just have that desire to teach, that desire to
Updated: 03/28/2011 05:47P
ACLU: Miss. sentencing law harsher on blacks
The report said the state's criminal code has a rigid and excessive schedule of mandatory minimum prison terms for drug possession that vary according to the weight of the drugs involved. For example, an individual possessing less than one-tenth of a
Updated: 03/28/2011 05:06P
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