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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

of the Russian Criminal Code, which prohibits the discrediting of the Russian armed forces. In March 2022, in the weeks following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian lawmakers fast-tracked amendments to the criminal code imposing steep prison terms for words or actions seen as discrediting the military.

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JULY 6, 2022

born between 1999 and 2005 were raised in a home where a parent or co-residing adult faced at least one criminal charge, reports The Hill. The study also found that Black and Native American children, as well as children from low-income households, are exposed to the justice system at twice the rate of their white counterparts.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2024

The Hong Kong government “strongly condemned” self-exiled activist Ted Hui Chi-fung in a statement on Monday for intimidating government officials and obstructing the course of justice by appealing to the public to carry out doxxing against public officers who handled his case.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Irish Department of Justice Wednesday announced a bill that would make it a crime to entice a child to engage in criminal activity. The proposed legislation is aimed to deter adults from involving minors in criminal enterprises. The proposed legislation is aimed to deter adults from involving minors in criminal enterprises.

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JURIST

JUNE 11, 2022

A Bolivian criminal court found ex-president Jeanine Anez guilty Friday of inciting a coup and sentenced her to 10 years in prison. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned Anez’s prosecution, claiming it is an example of the continued cycle of “revenge justice” in Bolivia.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2024

The court ruled that Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) does not provide blanket immunity to every act or omission of a public servant during their service. The two-judge bench of the apex court, consisting of Justice Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, rendered a verdict in Shadakshari v.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. Over and over again, she saw clients put in the hard work to get out of the criminal justice system and rebuild their lives, only to have doors slammed in their faces because of their records.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Justice Department on Wednesday formally banned the use of subpoenas, warrants or court orders to seize reporters’ communications records or demand their notes or testimony in an effort to uncover confidential sources in leak investigations, reports Charlie Savage for the Washington Post.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published a report on Friday calling for accountability for Israel and Palestinian militant groups for numerous violations of international law over the course of the Israel-Palestine conflict and occupation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Share Eight years after the Supreme Court blocked his execution so that it could consider a challenge to Oklahoma’s lethal-injection protocol, the justices agreed on Monday to take up the case of Richard Glossip , who is seeking to set aside his conviction and death sentence. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Diversion programs offer defendants in certain criminal cases to potentially avoid a criminal conviction or time in prison by participating in community service, restitution or educational alternatives. But some cities and counties charge for these programs.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Samidoun, or the Palestine Prisoner Solidarity Network, is an international organization which, it says, “seeks to achieve justice for Palestinian prisoners through events, activities, resources, delegations, research and information-sharing.”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

India’s Madurai Madra High Court Thursday held YouTuber Savukku Shankar guilty of criminal contempt and sentenced him to a six-month imprisonment in a suo moto petition against him for his remark on the Indian judiciary. Of course, they must be backed by materials. Prima facie Shankar had committed criminal contempt.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Is the reluctance of employers to hire individuals with criminal records driving the unemployment rate? A recent RAND corporation study found that more than half of unemployed men in their 30s have criminal records. Employers need to reconsider their protocols about how to respond when applicants have some type of criminal history.”.

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APRIL 8, 2024

During his presidency, Trump successfully nominated three Conservative justices to the nation’s highest court: Neil Gorsuch, who replaced Conservative predecessor Antonin Scalia; Brett Kavanaugh, who replaced the swing-voting Anthony Kennedy, and Amy Coney Barrett, who replaced progressive icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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JURIST

AUGUST 13, 2023

Accordingly, he will oversee the investigation and also make sure that the FIRs are filed according to the unique circumstances of each case by invoking the relevant criminal provisions. The court highlighted that there should be genuine attempts to restore the faith and confidence of the community in the justice system.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For example, James refers to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Florida property, which is currently at the center of a federal criminal case involving Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. James claims that Trump overvalued the Florida property at anywhere between $347 million to $739 million over the course of ten years.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The FBI will not tolerate the intimidation of citizens participating in our criminal justice system, and we will work with our partners to hold legally accountable anyone who threatens or carries out acts of violence against them.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

As the United Kingdom edges closer to a recession, with inflation galloping away at nearly 12 percent, many criminal justice workers are desperate for a pay rise to keep pace with the rising cost of living. The impact is likely to have as serious an impact —if not more so—on UK criminal justice as if the police had stropped work.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Over the course of two months this summer, New Jersey courts have successfully expunged 362,000 low-level marijuana cases from individual’s records, giving many citizens a chance at starting a new life without a harmful criminal record, NJ.com reports. . Of course, this is just one step. Advocates Offer Support.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2023

RSF has taken steps in seeking justice for these journalists by filing complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes against Palestinian journalists in Gaza and an Israeli journalist, calling on the ICC to prioritize these killings. ” He continued, “The reasons?

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

In the paper, entitled “Inmate Assistance Programs: Toward a Less Punitive and More Effective Criminal Justice System,” the authors conclude that the benefits of the programs outweigh many of the criticisms.

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APRIL 15, 2022

The most significant barrier to criminal justice reform may not be deadlocked politicians or conservative special interests, but the “law enforcement lobby,” warns a forthcoming essay in the Minnesota Law Review. Finally, restricting the lobbying capacity of law enforcement interest groups may reduce the lobby’s influence. “We

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JURIST

JULY 6, 2022

The amendments also had an impact on Article 67 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, which pertains to sentencing for crimes that are not ultimately carried out. The Committee’s futility over Belarusian criminal justice was illustrated in 2012 with the executions of 25-year-old factory workers Vladislav Kovalyov and Dmitry Konovalov.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 1, 2022

His attorneys argue that ordering him and his two eldest children to testify violates their constitutional rights because their answers could be used in a parallel criminal investigation, reports The Guardian. Lawyers for the Trumps also asked the appellate court for a stay to spare them from questioning while it considers the matter.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 7, 2021

District attorneys around the country are deeply involved in lobbying for tough criminal justice legislation, but the minority of prosecutors who push for reform measures exert a powerful influence on state legislators, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Law School.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Scholars have argued that the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, has applied a color-blind analysis to the law, churning out opinions that privilege white people, reinforce police power, and fortify carceral systems. There is a need to be vigilant against racial stereotypes influencing the criminal process.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 14, 2022

associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, about her research on the impact of the criminal justice system on marginalized groups. Her work emphasizes the needs of defendants in the criminal justice system, who she refers to as justice-involved people.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Share So what would you expect if a state supreme court wrote an opinion directly inconsistent with “perhaps the most fundamental rule” of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in the area, an opinion that would get a failing grade in any law school course on criminal law? But that does not undermine the value of the ruling.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2022

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will head a 15-member national commission to explore why military veterans become entangled in the justice system and devise approaches to help them avoid it. The commission will conduct a two-year inquiry into why so many military veterans land in jail or prison, said Army Col.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Republican opponent Thomas Viore, backed by a number of state attorneys around the state had centered his campaign on Raul’s support of the SAFE-T Act , a major overhaul of the state’s criminal justice system aimed at providing alternatives to prison for some offenders. Fox for The Boston Globe.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

The Department of Justice this week filed criminal charges under the Clean Water Act against Summit Midstream Partners LLC, a North Dakota pipeline company that discharged 29 million gallons of produced water from its pipeline near Williston, North Dakota, over the course of nearly five months in 2014 and 2015, reports the Devils Lake Journal.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The study will work to change this by merging intimate partner violence safety factors and pretrial safety factors and validate their effectiveness for use in pretrial decision-making using criminal justice data and reports from survivors throughout the pretrial period. According to the U.S.

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MARCH 2, 2024

It explicitly prohibited using mediation as a means of justice for such crimes, a notable departure from previous Spanish laws. This shift, following the 2012 European Directive, reignited a contemporary debate on the advantages and disadvantages of employing mediation in criminal cases, particularly in cases of gender violence.

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2021

1)(b) of the Canadian Criminal Code, which defines terrorism as an act committed “in whole or in part for a political, religious, or ideological purpose” that intentionally “causes death or serious bodily harm,” among other potential qualifications. The added terrorism charge is pursuant to section 83.03(1)(b)

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2023

Criminal procedure was used as a tool for rounding up all dissidents with little regard for the intensity of their individual crimes. Reports indicate that 102 individuals have been charged so far and are awaiting trials by a military court for offenses including criminal intimidation, rioting and assault on government officials.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It’s been decades since the intersection of forensic science and criminal justice first became a pop culture phenomenon, popularized by countless TV shows, movies and books. For years, ProPublica has reported on these dubious techniques as they’ve wormed their way into every corner of our real-life criminal justice system.

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