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Study Says US Should Consider Foreign Justice Policies
“In cases in which the offense is related to the personal use of drugs, treatment should be the first response rather than incarceration,” said the study. * Scale back sentences, especially for drug convictions: “No other comparison nation has
Updated: 04/19/2011 08:41A
The Latest Enemies of Iran: Dogs and Their Owners
In past years, animal-rights activists in Iran have persuasively argued that sporadic campaigns against dog ownership are politically motivated and unlawful, since the prohibition surfaces in neither the country's civil laws nor its Islamic criminal
Updated: 04/19/2011 08:07A
Harsher punishment on patricide faces abolishment
Those who murder their spouses, parents, parent-in-laws and other family members are currently subject to harsher criminal punishment. This will likely change as early as next year, with an ad-hoc criminal law reform committee,
Updated: 04/19/2011 07:41A
PEOPLE v. DAVENPORT
The court also rejected defense counsel's argument that Meiko's new account was equally vulnerable, stating that there was no indication that a criminal had the new account number. The court concluded that "someone who commits a forgery takes the risk
Updated: 04/19/2011 07:09A
PEOPLE v. MILES
On January 3, 2005 the trial court declared doubt as to Miles's competence to stand trial and suspended criminal proceedings. (§ 1368, subd. (a).) According to defense counsel, Miles's mother indicated Miles had a psychiatric history of paranoid
Updated: 04/19/2011 07:08A
IN RE CHRISTOPHER F.
446 ["The rule that a criminal defendant who is incompetent should not be required to stand trial has deep roots in our common-law heritage. . . . [¶] By contrast, there is no settled tradition on the proper allocation of the burden of proof in a
Updated: 04/19/2011 07:08A
PEOPLE v. BOWERS
Around the time of "last call" at 2:00 am on January 26, 2007, appellants Corey Johnson and Brenda Bowers and two unnamed women got out of their car near the Saints and Sinners bar in Culver City. Bar patrons Vanessa Castro and Melvin Alegria were
Updated: 04/19/2011 07:08A
There must be limits to our tolerance for repeat offenders
This is the penal law's lowest category of offense and is not even classified as a crime. The legislation being pushed by Donovan is an evenhanded, sensible response to a very real problem plaguing the criminal justice system in New York.
Updated: 04/19/2011 07:03A
Harsher punishment for killing family members likely to be abolished
Those who murder their spouses, parents, parent-in-laws and other family members are currently subject to harsher criminal punishment. This will likely change as early as next year, with an ad-hoc criminal law reform committee,
Updated: 04/19/2011 06:55A
Ministry to abolish parenticide clause
The clause on parenticide, which places additional criminal penalty on murderers who have killed their parents, is to be deleted from the criminal law. The criminal law revision committee met in the Supreme Prosecutor's Office on Monday and resolved to
Updated: 04/19/2011 06:21A
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