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Supreme Court justices appear split on US sex offender law
Christian Science Monitor
Kagan replied that the federal civil commitment program was necessary and proper to the responsible administration of the federal criminal justice system. ...
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'Squawk Box' Convicts Given Bail Pending Appeal; Brady Violation?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Prosecutors originally brought the criminal case way back in 2005. After the first trial, in 2007, a jury acquitted the men of securities fraud and other ...
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The Long Vindication
Austin Chronicle
Although Barrs' attorneys, including former criminal defense lawyer Keith Kisner, who had only recently graduated from law school, tried to have the ...
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Texas Forensic Science Commission releases details about allegations of ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Most surprising to the North Texas criminal justice community was criticism of the institute and its chief of physical evidence, Tim Sliter, ...
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: enforcement trends in 2010 and beyond
Lexology (registration)
[5] As a result of the focus on individual criminal liability, a number of foreign citizens now face time in American prisons. ...
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Race Relations and Law Enforcement in the United States of America ...
By admin
"It is also true that the African-Americans have a higher criminal propensity than any other single group in the United States of America. At this point, there cannot be any legal justification for resorting to crime and the reasons are .... in state prisons for drug felonies; Hispanics account for 20.7%, (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Summary Report 1998, cited in Race Law Enforcement & Prison, 2008). ..."
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Paralegal SLO: CA prison plan, pending appeal, OK'd by panel judges
By Paralegal SLO
"Defendant may be entitled to a dismissal of criminal charges upon a showing of selective prosecution for improper purposes, amounting to a violation of right to equal protection of law. ... Upon a proper prima facie showing by a defendant charged with a crime against a law enforcement officer (such as resisting arrest), the defense may be entitled to discovery of complaints by other people against the officer in order to try to show a pattern of aggressive behavior by the ..."
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Terry Glavin: Cover-up. What are the Liberals hiding? - Full Comment
By NP Editor
" 'Canadian diplomats stationed in Kabul warned the former Liberal government in 2003, 2004 and 2005 that torture was commonplace in Afghan prisons. In spite of these warnings, the Martin government signed an agreement with the ..... The action may have been a war crime, as judged from a position of total knowledge, but if the troops weren't in a position to know about even the allegation of torture, there's no opportunity for the criminal intent to be complicit in it. ...' "
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