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In New York state, a new look at the wrongly convicted
Reuters
But advocates say the system still lags for a far larger pool of people -- who are part of the 90 percent of criminal cases where no DNA evidence exists, ...
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Nigeria: Death Sentence - Nationals Differ On Call for Abolition
AllAfrica.com
He stated that our criminal justice procedure which is not the best at the moment should be overhauled before we retain death sentence. ...
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Court denies bail for war weapon plane suspects
Bangkok Post
The Criminal Court has denied bail to the five crew members of a cargo aircraft carrying weapons from North Korea and impounded in Bangkok. ...
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Fighting Wrongful Convictions
BU Today
The law students believe the conviction-driven culture of criminal prosecution needs to change. Levine says DNA testing, often challenged by prosecutors, ...
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Guantanamo Detainee Deaths
The Baltimore Chronicle
In August 2008, over two years later, investigators from the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) released "a heavily redacted report (concluding) ...
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Blood-spatters, fingerprints and other clues
St. John's Telegram
DNA testing has also led to the exoneration of people previously convicted of crimes. In one of the most publicized cases in this province's criminal...
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Nigeria: 'I'm Glad to Suffer Hardship For Democracy in Gombe'
AllAfrica.com
Again I will say that I have not regretted being kept in prison without bail even though I am entitled to it by the law and procedure of the court. ...
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ACLU Says Obama Is Creating ?Impunity? for Torturers
The New American
?It would be a dangerous precedent to conclude that lawyers who played a critical role in an illegal program are immune from criminal investigations,? ACLU ...
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State Still Puts Kids In Felons' Hands
The Ledger
So can thousands of other Floridians with criminal pasts. Since 1985, the Department of Children and Families has cleared 5803 people to work with kids ...
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AP Enterprise: Gaps in DNA banks lead to tragedy
Minneapolis Star Tribune
I'd rather fingerprints be used for non-criminal, citizen types. MADISON, Wis. - During what police say was a 20-year killing spree in Milwaukee, ...
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Secrecy in Government... on any level - National Corrections ...
"Rockport Mayor Todd Pearson claims that officials are ?unduly burdened? by the ?onerous? criminal penalties in this law. But that burden is intentional. When public officials feel comfortable to the point of not watching what they say, the law gets broken. ... It also includes commutation, which means that the sentence is changed (as was requested in my client's case from death by injection to life in prison), or in a non-capital case, to time already discharged. ..."
Latest Activity on National Correctio... - http://tcoc-investigations.ning.com/

People v. Julian R | California Court Opinions
By Admin
"In setting that confinement period, which may be less than, but not more than, the prison sentence that could be imposed on an adult convicted of the same crime, the court must consider the ?facts and circumstances? of the crime. .... He contends, however, that because the juvenile offender scheme now favors punishment over rehabilitation, it is now more like the adult criminal justice system. Therefore, Julian argues, the commitment procedure for a juvenile ward should ..."
California Court Opinions - http://lawzilla.com/blog/

Another Competition Law Class Action Milestone in Canada ...
"They had paid agreed-upon fines totaling $731 million (USD) and a number of their executive officers paid fines and served prison terms for their related criminal conduct. In the first instance, the British Columbia Supreme Court chambers judge ... Because it rejected plaintiff's argument, the chambers judge had found that liability was not a common issue in the case and class proceedings were not the ?preferable procedure? for the fair and efficient resolution of the ..."
Antitrust Today - http://www.antitrusttoday.com/

The Santa Barbara Independent Hope and Help Behind Bars
? 'People want to change, they just don't know how,' said John, who himself served 26 years in prison and found sobriety through AA members' visits and their message of hope. Now he works in the recovery field. ... People who change their minds change their behavior. Those who do the crime should to the time. Evenso, nobody was born wanting to be a criminal, an alcoholic, a rapist, a thief, and the other many labels for miscreant behavior. The way out is the way through. ..."
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