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Courts ponder: When is juve's prison term effectively 'life'?
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | 10 months ago
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David Royse, The News Service of Florida Posted August 8, 2012 at 8:55 p.m. A district appeals court urged the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to weigh in on how long is too long when sentencing a juvenile for crimes other than murder...Supreme
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Stop-and-Frisk May Soon Hit Judicial Roadblocks
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 11 months ago
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But recent rulings by federal and state courts have now cast judges as the most potent critics of the practice, raising sharp questions about whether the city has sidestepped the Constitution in the drive to keep crime rates low. Sara Krulwich/The
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Battle to firm up competition law
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 12 months ago
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The Competition Commission and Competition Tribunal believe their work is being hamstrung by the Competition Appeal Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal, whose understanding of economic principles is lacking, according to role players in the
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Lawrence Hutchins murder case raises question of unlawful command influence
Manteca :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
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Whatever happens will reopen some uncomfortable questions about military justice, pitting against each other two men who are at opposite ends of the spectrum: one a political appointee atop the Department of the Navy, the other an incarcerated
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Aboriginal land rights upheld by B.C. Court of Appeal
Toronto :: Canada | 12 months ago
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Supreme Court made the right finding, in a 2007 judgment about a Tsilhqot'in First Nation claim, the Appeal Court did reject some of the main reasons the late Justice David Vickers used to reach his conclusions. The end result is that the Tsilhqot'in
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First Latino justice set to be confirmed to 6th District Court of Appeals
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
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The son of Mexican immigrants, Marquez has been on the fast track since his youth, transforming himself from an elementary school student who battled with mastering English to accumulating degrees from Stanford, Harvard and UC Berkeley. And now he is
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NPA takes Sexual Offences Act to appeal court
Natal :: Brazil | 1 year ago
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In May the Western Cape High Court upheld a decision by the Riversdale Magistrate's Court that a man who forcibly fondled a woman in 2009 could not be sentenced because the behaviour had no penalty under the Act. Arnold Prins was charged with
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An eco-stadium? Promises, promises
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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Feelings of betrayal dividing friends, lovers, and political allies have provided grist for Shakespeare and Verdi, among other great scrutinizers of the human condition. It's intriguing to ponder what they would have made of the breakup between the
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NY court: Gold tablet must return to German museum
New York :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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There's been speculation that sometime in the 1940s, Holocaust survivor Riven Flamenbaum may have swapped a pack of smokes for a gold tablet no bigger than a Post-it note, which he kept until his death. But however Flamenbaum got
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Public Eye: Appeals court tosses El Dorado rule on misdemeanor defendants
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | 1 year ago
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The bottom-line question before the higher court was: Can judges ignore a law they don't like and make their own rule? A resounding "No" was the answer from the Sacramento-based 3rd District Court of Appeal. El Dorado Superior Court adopted a local
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