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Tajik parents risk prison for sending children to foreign religious schools
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Authorities in Tajikistan are threatening to slap heavy jail sentences on parents who send their children to Islamic schools abroad, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday. Eight fathers are currently in detention
Updated: 04/14/2011 04:57P
White Collar Crime & Investigations Law Update - April 2011
Prosecutors may no longer use the honest services fraud statute as a broad brush to paint actions that do not fit into a larceny story as criminal. The Supreme Court halted this practice on June 24th of last year, when it struck the honest services
Updated: 04/14/2011 04:53P
Pride Festival still in Mammoliti's crosshairs despite city staff declining to
Yesterday, the city staff concluded that, under criminal law and provincial human rights rules, QuAIA is not engaging in hate speech. Case closed? Hardly. Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti and others on council are now threatening to pull not only Pride
Updated: 04/14/2011 04:28P
How the Innocent Get Convicted
Garrett was also the author of a fascinating study a few years ago in which he looked at how appeals courts handled cases were the defendant was later proven innocent by DNA. Here's what I wrote about his findings at the time: Garrett found that of the
Updated: 04/14/2011 04:08P
Business groups can't stop Fla. immigration bills
Others argued that Florida produce would rot in the fields without immigrants to pick the crops and that the bill would be unconstitutional because immigration is controlled by federal law. Supporters said the legislation is needed because the federal
Updated: 04/14/2011 04:07P
Bobby Douglass: Even Retired Players Are Getting into Legal Trouble
Douglass was charged with one count each of criminal trespass to land and criminal damage to property. The 63-year-old Douglass appeared Thursday in Lake County court. A clerk says bond was set at $10000. No matter who they are, no matter what the
Updated: 04/14/2011 03:35P
Meeting the Needs of Crime Victims
That's because our criminal justice system defines crime as an offense against the state, not against the victim. You can see this in the way criminal cases are titled: The State v. Defendant. Crime is defined as "law breaking" rather than "victim
Updated: 04/14/2011 03:34P
Dozens of Girl Guides "arrested"
The exercise was part of Kelowna Law Day, and the Girl Guides were learning about the justice system and earning their law badges. Police pretended to arrest the girls for cultivation. The girls rotated through stations set up for different criminal
Updated: 04/14/2011 03:27P
Twice convicted officer gets probation
“Certain public employees may be entrusted with access to confidential criminal justice information, which state law mandates is private and confidential to be used for official law enforcement purposes only,” stated Attorney General Strange.
Updated: 04/14/2011 03:21P
Bucks County man admits groping four Bethlehem girls; rape charges withdrawn
"Well, that's enough," to meet the criminal code requirements for corruption of minors, the judge replied. His son, Robert D'Ginto Jr., has open cases in Lehigh and Northampton County; he's been in Lehigh County Prison since Jan.
Updated: 04/14/2011 03:01P
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