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Selected Worldwide Criminal Law News and Blog Alerts September 12-13, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

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Source:Google News Alert Service, September 12-13, 2009.

NEWS:

'There should be a zero tolerance policy for this egregious abuse ...
WND.com
"We also found that the majority of allegations (65 percent) involved accusations of criminal sexual abuse rather than non-criminal sexual misconduct. ...
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guardian.co.uk

Alan Duncan, pragmatic liberal reformer of Britain's justice system?
guardian.co.uk
A criminal record only makes it harder to re-enter normal civilian life, turning a significant minority of people into career criminals and so making crime ...
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Prefiguring Real Universal Health Care
Infoshop News
Primarily white neighborhoods, at least in my experience as a white man with a middle-class background, house all the same ?criminal? acts that plague black ...
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All Rights Reserved
The Community Journal
He is still being held there, but this time on a civil, rather than criminal, basis, which will be reevaluated at the beginning of October. ...
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Wrongful convictions prove weakness in judicial system
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
DNA testing of the semen collected at the crime scene finally proved that he was wrongfully convicted. The latest reversal in New Jersey occurred in 2007, ...
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It's Debatable: 'Hill Street Blues' and the gene pool
Mansfield News Journal
Sure, a law-abiding citizen might eventually find it hugely inconvenient to have that DNA record in the criminal database, say, when his genetic footprint ...
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BLOGS:

Kim Anh trial judge's testimony sought during appeal seeking post ...
By Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune
"If this crime would have happened in Texas, both Frank ans LaCaze would have been executed long ago. What difference does it make if any judge would have given a gun to Frank? Years ago police officers could approach a criminal court judge and request the release ... Yes, it's a perfectly routine, legal procedure. After a conviction involving a gun the judge can order the gun destroyed or order it released to someone. This is usually a police officer for obvious reasons. ..."
New Orleans Metro Crime and Courts News - http://www.nola.com/crime/

timesofmalta.com - Reactions to VAT sentences
"They should have been judged by a CRIMINAL COURT PROCEDDING JUDGE AND NOT BY A MINOR CRIMINAL MAGISTRATES COURT. In the UK VAT evasion and for that any major TAX avasion matter is taken very seriously and usually brought before a Judge at the Old Bailey. ... It never had a mechanism to audit the VAT Department procedures and accounts and now we are paying the price as a nation whereby we have been robbed ?10 million. We all know how we are paying for this "missing" money. ..."
timesofmalta.com - http://www.timesofmalta.com/

East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin: Subversion of the rule of law ...
By Voice of East Timor
"Acording to the East Timor Penal Code article 245, section 1, who ever with illegal action frees from prison those who according to the law have lost their freedom or those who help a person to escape are liable to prison terms of between 2 - 6 years imprisonment.'. ... 'This act of intervention in the Timorese judicial system violates the Timorese constitution, the Timorese criminal procedure code and represents a crime under the new Timorese penal code.' " ...
East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin - http://easttimorlegal.blogspot.com/

Samantha Orobator gave Birth to a Baby Girl « Nye Noona
By Nye
"Rhona Friedman, Orobator's lawyer, met her in prison this morning following her return and described her as ?very tired?She is as well as can be expected. She has undergone a very long and drawn-out traumatic procedure and process which ..... I'm not a fan of death penalty by fire squad or any death penalty, just the thought gives me chills, but I do believe that when you do the crime, you pay the time. True that she is currently pregnant and the country's criminal law ..."
Nye Noona - http://nyenoona.wordpress.com/

Teknosis: Larry Becraft analyzes the legal bases of Mercier's ...
By pc93
"They absolutely hate seeing their clients get carted off to prison for alleged tax crimes. I believe the DOJ has a 95% success rate in tax crime prosecutions. And students can find precious few cases in which the patriot income tax protester wins ... That does not mean some government official cannot misapply the alleged law or an actual law. By this I mean to suggest the many of the people in government engage in criminal acts against the people, and many judges give ..."
Teknosis - http://tekgnosis.typepad.com/tekgnosis/

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).