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The false hope of justice
And in a way, they still are, because we still don't get the idea that criminal justice is a punitive thing, purely and simply. It might make some sense to send a safecracker to jail just to give property owners a break for a few months and the
Updated: 04/02/2011 04:22A
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In this magazine, today, Weekend Observer lays bares evil men's vincibility inspite of their tantrums. Remember, the Ibadan enfant terrible, politician and apostle of African juju called Adelakun. He roamed the landscape during the Awoist days of the
Updated: 04/02/2011 04:11A
Oman: Prosecution of government officials' lawsuit put off
MUSCAT -- The Public Prosecution Department said it could not proceed with the case filed by the sit-in group at the Majlis Ash'shura premises which demanded the trial of government officials for corruption. The Public Prosecution Department based its
Updated: 04/02/2011 03:26A
Up and coming property auctions
Graham Kinnear, managing director at Landlord Assist, says: “We would like to see those websites that offer lists of vacant properties and advice for squatters relating to Section 6 (1) of the Criminal Law Act to be removed from the internet as they
Updated: 04/02/2011 03:18A
Virginia — Title 8.2 - COMMERCIAL CODE - SALES. — Part 4 - Title, Creditors
When goods have been delivered under a transaction of purchase the purchaser has such power even though (d) the delivery was procured through fraud punishable as larcenous under the criminal law. (2) Any entrusting of possession of goods to a merchant
Updated: 04/02/2011 02:57A
Law turns victims into criminals
It requires IRS agents to do something they are not trained to do (become criminal law enforcement officers with forensic knowledge) in a manner which even those who are trained to do it have no right. It allows them to stick their snoots into the
Updated: 04/02/2011 02:20A
D.C. Superior Court judge declares mistrial over attorney's competence in
During his opening statements, Rakofsky repeatedly made reference to children playing “in the projects of Southeast DC, where there was always gambling, guns and drugs.” “There are drugs in the projects of Southeast DC There are guns all the time and
Updated: 04/01/2011 10:48P
Should city pay legal fees for accused cops?
“He was enforcing the criminal law of Illinois overzealously by extracting confessions from criminal suspects by improper means,” the appeals court wrote. “He was, as it were, too loyal an employee. He was acting squarely within the scope of his
Updated: 04/01/2011 09:53P
Is libel a crime?
Justice William J. Brennan spoke for the court: “We are required in this case to determine for the first time the extent to which the constitutional protections for speech and press limit a state's power to award damages in a libel action brought by a
Updated: 04/01/2011 09:37P
Kill on the road. Get off with a ticket.
Currently, Maryland law has no mechanism for criminal punishment of a driver who kills another unless there is evidence of intoxication or gross negligence. Gross negligence is an unreasonably high standard that essentially means proving “reckless
Updated: 04/01/2011 08:23P
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