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Police using analytics to track offenders
Two high-profile murders of college students in North Carolina during 2008 have led to the creation of CJLEADS (Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data Services), an analytics project that aggregates a slew of disparate data stores and is
Updated: 04/21/2011 02:54P
Lunch Break: 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: 04/21/2011 01:34P
IT'S JUST MY OPINION
We are most familiar with such legal specialties as business law, criminal law, tax and estate planning, family law (divorce), litigation and personal injury. However, there are actually 260 areas of legal practice, some of which are quite esoteric,
Updated: 04/21/2011 01:20P
Oklahoma Governor Fallin makes state executions easier, limits abortion rights
On Monday, Fallin signed Oklahoma HB 1991, which amended the criminal procedure law in Oklahoma to eliminate the wording "ultrashort?acting barbiturate" to simply read "lethal quantity of a drug or drugs". This will enable prison authorities to use
Updated: 04/21/2011 11:55A
Consumer watchdog
His reply, 5 minutes later, was simple: "All diseases including AIDS". My friend Thuso is on very dangerous ground. Offering cures for AIDS is illegal, as is offering cures for cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Maybe he shouldn't have offered to cure
Updated: 04/21/2011 10:29A
Court orders framing of charges against Ashok Todi in Riz case
Ninth fast track court judge Amit Chattopadhyay directed that Todi, his brother Pradip Todi, brother-in-law Anil Saraogi and Pappu be tried under Section 306 (abetment to suicide), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the
Updated: 04/21/2011 10:14A
Investigation Committee to check events around death of Sverdlovsk Fair Russia
According to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin, a criminal case upon the death of the secretary of the Fair Russia party bureau in the Sverdlovsk region, a 40-year Sverdlovsk resident
Updated: 04/21/2011 09:26A
New site for Shannan Gilbert, possible victim of Long Island serial killer
The site, FindShannanGilbert.com, is sponsored by attorney Robin Sax who specializes in criminal law, the right of victims, Constitutional rights and family law. Visitors to the site can submit anonymous tips, read about Gilbert and peruse facts about
Updated: 04/21/2011 09:03A
Florida Law Prof Accused of Shoving Student Who Criticized Him, Gets One-Week
A University of Florida law professor was suspended for a week based on allegations he shoved a student who criticized his handling of a room mix-up during exams. Criminal law professor Kenneth Nunn got a letter from the dean
Updated: 04/21/2011 08:51A
Amendments to Bulgaria's criminal code can curb media freedom, warns OSCE
Amendments to Bulgaria's criminal code can threaten media freedom, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovi?, said today, the press service of the organization announced. The changes, adopted by Parliament last week,
Updated: 04/21/2011 07:52A
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