Legal Research

Minor offence?
Frontline
The Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2008, which has still not been notified, stipulates that a rape victim's statement to the police should be ...
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U.S. v. MAUSALI
Leagle, Inc.
Indeed, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure require a defendant to "alleg[e] a defect in instituting the prosecution" before trial, Fed. R. Crim. ...
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U.S. v. COOPER
Leagle, Inc.
[Federal] Rule [of Criminal Procedure] 52(b) review ? so-called "plain-error review"? involves four steps, or prongs. First, there must be an error or ...
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Federal Court Rules on Voting Rights of Incarcerated Felons
OMB Watch
They're reflective of the discrimination in the criminal justice system." Lawrence A. Weiser, a Gonzaga University law professor involved in the case since ...
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SPIERS v. ALLISON
Leagle, Inc.
Dept. of Criminal Justice, 239 F.3d 752, 756 (5th Cir. 2001)(quoting Johnson v. Treen, 759 F.2d 1236, 1238 (5th Cir. 1985)). Defendants contend, and the ...
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?Taylor's conspiracy theory is nonsensical?- Prosecutor
Awoko
This is not only in the Taylor's trial it applies across the board - International Criminal Tribunals that when you have a case you have to factor in ...
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PEOPLE v. BERGERUD
Leagle, Inc.
The United States and Colorado Constitutions extend an indigent criminal defendant the right to representation. See US Const. amends. VI, XIV; Colo. ...
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Sexual crime DNA 'not processed'
BBC News
... under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) are kept securely and in a way that guarantees evidence continuity. "Compliance with the procedures is ...
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Freiheit für Muharrem Erbey ! « Die Rostige Laterne
By dierostigelaterne
"The crime of which he's been accused is explained to the deponent, it is told him that he has a right to choose a counsel of defense and that he can benefit from its legal advice, that the counsel of defense has a right to be present at .... For this reason we request that he be released from prison. After the written content of the 147th article of the Code of Criminal Procedures was read the minutes were read and signed by the individual who gave the statement and those ..."
Die Rostige Laterne - http://dierostigelaterne.wordpress.com/

Skeptical CPA: Plea Bargains, No Bargain
By Independent Accountant
"Generally, the more charges and counts, the more the potential prison time. If a defendant exercises his right to a trial, he or she faces all those counts. ... And plea bargains are an essential part of the system, accounting for ... My suggestion: a revision of federal criminal procedure. Henceforth, any government witness or the AUSA can be questioned by the defendant with no right to object! if he chooses not to answer, fine. Let the jurors draw adverse inferences! ..."
Skeptical CPA - http://skepticaltexascpa.blogspot.com/

Dispatch Now 24/7 » Blog Archive » Zuma has met Eugene de Kok ...
By Jan Hennop
"I think the difference between Shaik and De Kock is that Shaik still denies his guilt, and has done practically no prison time for robbing the people of SA (which is what corruption is); on the other hand, De Kock has done hard time in C- Max ... JZ was never convicted of a crime. The Criminal Procedure Act does not allow for guilt by association. The notion of a 'general corrupt? relationship, was a figment of the imagination of a media that was hell-bent to support their ..."
Dispatch Now 24/7 - http://blogs.dispatch.co.za/dispatchnow/

Dialog - UA Faculty & Staff News » Accolades for January 11, 2010
By Lisa Frederick
"with Ida M. Johnson 'Older African American Women and Barriers to Reporting Domestic Violence to Law Enforcement in the Rural Deep South,' Women & Criminal Justice, 19(4): 1-21 (2009). ? 'Drugs, Incarceration, and HIV/AIDS ... ?HIV-Positive Prisoners and Institutional Segregation: A Legal and Health Analysis,' Aiden Renshaw and Emelina Suárez (Eds.), 'Violent Crime and Prisons: Population, Health Conditions, and Recidivism? (chapter 12),' New York: Nova Publishers (2009). ..."
Dialog - http://dialog.ua.edu/