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Is War on Terror a Crime? According to Rivkin and Casey in the Wall Street Journal, law professors, activist lawyers, and pundits are accusing the attorneys who have advised the President on the war on terror of aiding and abetting criminal activity. Among these advisers are some of country's finest legal minds. Liberal critics are attempting to fix them with responsibility for government actions ranging from Abu Ghraib to denying habeas rights to Gitmo detainees. Maryland?s Court redefines the concept of rape The Johns Hopkins News-Letter reports that the Maryland Court of Appeals (the state's highest court) has redefined the definition of rape to include circumstances when one party withdraws consent after penetration. The Court's decision was announced in Baby v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).