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RAY v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
Leagle.com
Kentucky Rule of Criminal Procedure (RCr) 9.16 requires a court to separate charges when it appears joinder of offenses would be prejudicial. ...
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Harriet Harman's 'unreliable statistics on rape scare off victims'
Daily Mail
The review by Baroness Stern appeared to put an end to years of claims by ministers that laws and criminal procedures for dealing with rape need radical ...
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Drug dealers get jail for 'despicable' crimes
Independent Online
The State closed its case in December, and last month all 15 accused brought an application for discharge in terms of Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure...
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CUNNINGHAM v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Leagle.com
Rule of Criminal Procedure 703(C) provides: After sentencing, unless the sentencing judge otherwise orders ... psychiatric, psychological, and pre-sentence ...
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U.S. v. SYKES
Leagle.com
The district court enhanced Sykes' sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 USC § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii), having determined that he had previously ...
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Web Resources: The Legal Workshop « Prison Law Blog
By sara
The authors give an overview of how we ended up with a system in which the federal courts are (theoretically) supposed to regulate state criminal law and procedure primarily via federal habeas corpus litigation. ... So the basic assumptions behind our system of punishment ? that the punishment happens only during the prison term, and that the way to punish someone proportionately ?more? for a proportionately ?worse? crime is to extend their sentence ? are misguided. ...
Prison Law Blog - http://prisonlaw.wordpress.com/

Osgoode Hall Law School Library - Recent Acquisitions » RECENT ...
By adambrosi
Title: Discussion du projet de loi sur les prisons à la Chambre des Députés (session de 1844) : précédée de l'exposé des motifs et du rapport de la commission, suivie de notes critiques et d'un résumé général. ... Title: Introduction to crime, law and justice in Hong Kong / edited by Mark S. Gaylord, Danny Gittings and Harold Traver. Publisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2009. Description: x, 259 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: Criminal justice, Administration ...
Osgoode Hall Law School Library... - http://www.yorku.ca/oslawlib/lawlibrary/

UNHCR | Refworld | 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices ...
Children younger than six whose mothers had been convicted of a crime often lived in prison with their mothers, particularly if they had no other relatives. This practice was dramatically reduced under the direction of the CPD and in conjunction .... The Criminal Law Reform Working Group, which included local legal experts and international rule of law advisors, completed its revision of the criminal procedure code and submitted it to the Taqnin, the legislative drafting ...

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Texas Prison Watch: Texas Mulls Deporting Foreign-National Inmates
By PRCC
AUSTIN - State officials again are considering pursuing deportation for foreign nationals serving time in Texas prisons for nonviolent crime, according to the Austin American-Statesman. .... If you wish to take legal action, you must also make sure the above described grievance procedures have been completed in most cases. TCRP does not handle the following types of cases: Criminal defense, parole, family law (including child support, child custody, and divorce), ...
Texas Prison Watch - http://texasprisonwatch.blogspot.com/