Criminal Law Archives

Quebec court docket ruling on police stops ‘vital’ in combat towards racial profiling, attorneys say

March 21, 2023

Legal professionals combating towards racial profiling are applauding a Quebec Superior Court docket resolution prohibiting police throughout the province from making motorized vehicle stops with out trigger. Though Decide Michel Yergeau stated Tuesday that the choice will not eradicate racial profiling in a single day, Quebec attorneys are highlighting the significance of suspending the apply, often known […]

Supreme Court docket to look at regulation that limits reporting of legal proceedings

March 21, 2023

Criminal Law

By Canadian Press Oct 20, 2022 | 10:36 AM OTTAWA — The Supreme Court docket of Canada will have a look at whether or not a regulation banning publication of sure proceedings in legal issues applies earlier than the choice of a jury. A consortium of main media shops requested the highest courtroom to listen […]

Weed Apartheid in Israel and Palestine

March 18, 2023

Criminal Law

In bars and cafes throughout Israel, the air is thick with hashish smoke. For years, smoking weed has been socially permissible in Israel regardless of being technically unlawful. Patio tables in cities like Tel Aviv are dotted with individuals overtly rolling joints and lighting up and not using a second thought. Sarcastically, smoking pot is […]

America’s ‘most harmful’ legislation? Illinois candidate warns of ‘anarchy’ after felony justice overhaul

March 18, 2023

Criminal Law

Crime in Illinois might “spiral uncontrolled” after a brand new legislation overhauling the state’s felony justice system goes into impact in January, the mayor of a Chicago suburb stated. “After I stated that that is probably the most harmful legislation I’ve ever seen, I consider that,” stated Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau, who’s working for […]

MCIR: Tunnel imaginative and prescient places blinders on legal justice system

March 18, 2023

Criminal Law

Sabrina Butler sat terrified within the dimly lit interrogation room in Columbus, Mississippi. White males towered over the 17-year-old Black grieving mom. She killed her son, didn’t she? they fired at her. She killed him, they advised her repeatedly, for over 4 hours. It was only a stroll, she thought to herself. She got here […]

Supreme Court docket to look at regulation that limits reporting of legal proceedings

March 18, 2023

Criminal Law

By Canadian Press Oct 20, 2022 | 11:36 AM OTTAWA — The Supreme Court docket of Canada will take a look at whether or not a regulation banning publication of sure proceedings in legal issues applies earlier than the number of a jury. A consortium of main media shops requested the highest courtroom to listen […]

Russian courtroom upholds U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner’s nine-year drug sentence

March 18, 2023

Criminal Law

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is seen on the underside a part of a TV display as she waits to seem in a video hyperlink offered by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service previous to a listening to on the Moscow Regional Courtroom in Krasnogorsk close to Moscow on Oct. 25.Alexander Zemlianichenko/The […]

Busted at 18, an Ontario man says he misplaced his profession to Ottawa’s damaged pot pardon course of

March 18, 2023

Criminal Law

Chris O’Neill of Stittsville, Ont., says he misplaced his job final week due to a 33-year-old conviction for possession of hashish — the one legal conviction he is ever had. And he tells CBC Information he is getting no assist in any respect from the federal authorities’s course of for suspending legal data for marijuana use. The […]

“laws to advance an extended overdue modernization, group, and revision of the District’s complete prison code”

March 15, 2023

Criminal Law

From the workplace of Councilmember Charles Allen: “On Friday, October 21, at 2pm, the DC Council’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Security will meet to vote on the Revised Legal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA), laws to advance an extended overdue modernization, group, and revision of the District’s complete prison code. The laws was launched […]

We Surveyed U.S. Sheriffs. See Their Views on Energy, Race and Immigration

March 15, 2023

Criminal Law

During the last decade, debates about police violence, mass incarceration and different felony justice points have usually centered on police chiefs and prosecutors. However sheriffs demand equal consideration. In an more and more partisan America, they foyer state legislatures and Congress. They run jails and perform evictions. They determine how aggressively to research and arrest […]

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