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AGO Returns Cirus' Charging Sheet to Police
(JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal) The Attorney General's Office on Tuesday returned the charging sheets on its troubled prosecutor Cirus Sinaga to police, demanding improvements and pointing out that several necessary articles of the Criminal Code had failed
Updated: 03/29/2011 09:36A
China adopts amendment to the Criminal Law to outlaw bribery of foreign officials
8 of the PRC Criminal Law, criminalizing bribery of foreign government officials and "international public organizations" to secure illegitimate business benefits. This amendment goes into effect on May 1, 2011. The PRC did not have any law addressing
Updated: 03/29/2011 09:14A
Syrian Government Resigns in Wake of Violent Demonstrations
demonstrators that also included the release of more than 200 prisoners, steps to combat corruption, a media law guaranteeing more freedom, improving living standards for residents of border areas and changes to criminal law to ban random arrests.
Updated: 03/29/2011 09:07A
PEOPLE v. SAWYER
Defendant now argues that the trial court violated his due process right to a fair trial and abused its discretion by ordering him restrained during trial. In People v. Duran (1976) 16 Cal.3d 282, the California Supreme Court "reaffirm[ed] the rule
Updated: 03/29/2011 08:27A
PEOPLE v. BAKER
(See People v. Macklem (2007) 149 Cal.App.4th 674, 686-696.) It is sufficient to consider only whether she interrogated him and we hold she did not. "[T]he term `interrogation' under Miranda refers not only to express questioning, but also to any words
Updated: 03/29/2011 08:25A
BC's Bountiful polygamy case: There are no sides, only layers
The fact that BC Civil Liberties and West Coast LEAF are on opposite sides of the question (which is: is the criminal law prohibiting polygamy constitutional) is not unusual. The civil liberties approach to such questions is often at odds with the
Updated: 03/29/2011 07:41A
Political violence and unlawful behaviour
When is a criminal act permissible on political grounds? By criminal acts, I do not mean the simple and principled non-compliance which can be labelled "civil disobedience". I mean instead positive actions which breach criminal law, such as offences
Updated: 03/29/2011 07:34A
Herman Cain Wouldn't Appoint Muslim Judges, Cabinet Members
Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the
Updated: 03/29/2011 07:32A
Liable for libel?: Armenian newspapers reeling under “decriminalized
Rights groups in Armenia have expressed serious concerns over the magnitude of recent application of an amended legislation removing criminal liability for libel but making media softer targets for current and former officials seeking compensation on
Updated: 03/29/2011 07:22A
Case of Haines City Officer's Shooting Heads to United States Supreme Court Today
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: 03/29/2011 06:39A
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