[ad_1] SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that elected public officials and their campaign committees may, in limited circumstances, use campaign funds to pay criminal defense attorney fees. The case involved a former Chicago city alderman, Danny Solis, who reportedly avoided federal prosecution by agreeing to cooperate with […]
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State Supreme Court to hear criminal appeals involving racial bias, jury instructions | Courts
[ad_1] The Colorado Supreme Court agreed to review whether an Arapahoe County judge, who is now a justice on the state’s highest court, correctly handled a potentially race-based dismissal of a Black juror, and whether jurors in an Adams County criminal trial should have received the definition of a key […]
35 Google Tricks You Need to Try – Best Google Easter Eggs
RD.COM Tech Internet From functional to fun: The all-powerful search engine is packed with more cool Google tricks than you realized. Getty Images, via google.com Fun Google tricks Searching for information on the internet can get pretty boring, so why not make it a little more entertaining with these Google […]
War criminal definition: Who decides, what are punishments
[ad_1] There are set definitions and processes for determining who’s a war criminal and deciding how they should be punished. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden flatly called Russia’s Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” for the unfolding onslaught in Ukraine, where hospitals and maternity wards have been bombed. But declaring someone a war […]
Data Manipulation, Law Enforcement and Our Future
[ad_1] While we have traditionally considered data manipulation as the practice of altering documents and other information, that definition is changing. When we think about data manipulation now, the alteration of documents and information done with a criminal or harmful intent has become a major concern, but not the only […]
Marinette County approves funds to support City of Marinette Airboat after reconsideration
Last month the Marinette County Board of supervisors approved contributing $43,900 to the City of Marinette towards the purchase of a new 24 ft search and rescue airboat with the caveat that the county be able to use the airboat. However, at yesterday’s County Board meeting a motion was brought […]
Analysis: Calling Putin a war criminal is a bigger deal than you think
[ad_1] A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday didn’t signal any concern that Biden’s remarks would roil talks with Russia. He told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that he’s “ready for […]
Isolators warned they must get official PCR exit test
Health Minister Sabrina Turner at the press briefing (CNS): Health Minister Sabrina Turner said at Thursday’s press briefing that people who have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus who leave isolation before getting an official PCR exit test, regardless of how long they have been in quarantine, will be prosecuted. […]
Westminster update: Government announces investment in criminal legal aid
[ad_1] One thing you need to do Read our advice on how lawyers can show support for those in Ukraine. What you need to know 1. Government announces investment in legal aid The government announced the first substantial injection of funding for criminal legal aid in 25 years on Tuesday […]
The Taxation Processes in Banking Transactions
There are banking transactions that are subject to VAT. This can include, for example, custody fees in the securities area or the rental of safe deposit boxes. Questions about sales tax reductions are fundamentally the business policy responsibility of each individual institute. In case of doubt, only your savings bank […]
To Catch a Conspiracy: Congress Renews ACPERA
Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz On June 25, 2020, Congress approved the renewal and permanent extension of the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act (ACPERA or “the Act”), which limits the civil damages exposure of companies that cooperate with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in self-reporting their own […]
A Conversation with Dr. Emily Wang and Professor Tracey Meares
As many individuals across the United States and in New Haven are engaged in conversations and activism around systemic racism, sparked in part by the disparate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color and recent horrific incidents of police brutality against black men and women, around 170 members of the […]
Law clouds calls for arrests in Breonna Taylor’s death
The entire internet, it seems, is calling for the arrests of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in her Louisville, Kentucky, home. The viral meme goes like this: take any subject and insert a reference to Taylor. For example, on the first day of the delayed baseball season the Tampa […]
US-UK Data Sharing Deal Could Streamline Law Enforcement
Law360 (August 10, 2020, 5:25 PM EDT) — Last month the bilateral data access agreement between the U.S. and the United Kingdom came into effect.[1] It is the first agreement to be put in place under legislation introduced to address contemporary challenges to data-gathering by domestic authorities where data is […]
Arizona recreational marijuana, sentencing reform measures OK’d by judges
CLOSE The measures that could be on the ballot are the Smart and Safe Arizona Act, that would allow people 21 and older to posses up to an ounce of marijuana and would set up a system of licensing retailers, and the Second Chances, Rehabilitation and Public Safety Act, that […]
Rape Case Targets to Be Set in England and Wales Following Record-Low Prosecutions
Why Global Citizens Should Care The United Nations’ Global Goal 5 calls for an end to gender inequality — by eradicating systematic prejudice and putting a stop to sexual violence, among other things. But this will never be achieved without robust legal infrastructure that prioritises the welfare of survivors and offers […]
Pot, criminal justice reform initiatives move closer to ballot | News
PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County judges on Friday rejected challenges to two proposed voter initiatives, one implementing criminal sentencing reform and the other legalizing recreational marijuana. If the rulings are upheld after expected appeals to the state Supreme Court and if enough qualifying signatures are certified by the Secretary of […]