Australia: Perverting the course of justice charges in NSW - Criminal Defence Lawyers Australia
Mondaq
APRIL 29, 2022
Perverting the course of justice is deemed an obstruction to the justice system and taken very seriously by the courts.
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UK government publishes response to human rights decisions from European Court of Human Rights
JURIST
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
The UK Ministry of Justice released a report on Monday detailing its responses to human rights issues flagged by judgments in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and its domestic courts. The report further highlighted that over the course of the reporting year, five declarations of incompatibility were made by domestic courts.
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Moscow court sentences activist Oleg Orlov to 2.5 years in penal colony for ‘discrediting’ Russian military
JURIST
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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Study: Nearly Half of U.S. Children Have Intergenerational Exposure to Crime
The Crime Report
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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Proposed Ireland bill would criminalise luring minors into life of crime
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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Bolivia ex-president found guilty of inciting coup, sentenced to 10 years in prison
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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India Supreme Court narrows immunity cover for acts or omissions by public servants
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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On LawNext: Rasa Legal Founder Noella Sudbury On Simplifying Criminal Records Expungement
LawSites
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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Justices take up bid to overturn Oklahoma death sentence
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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DOJ Will Leave Reporters’ Notes Alone in New Ruling
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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Should Court Diversion Programs Charge Fees?
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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Justice-Involved Swell US Jobless Ranks: Study
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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India Supreme Court directs supervising officer to investigate Manipur Police
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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Why UK Lawyers are Going on Strike
The Crime Report
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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NJ Expunged 362,000 Marijuana Records
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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Do Prison Rehabilitation Programs Really Work?
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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Belarus dispatch: Minsk expands reach of death penalty to include enemies of Lukashenko regime
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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Double jeopardy clause bars Georgia from retrying man acquitted by reason of insanity
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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Race and the Roberts Court
The Crime Report
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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‘All is Still Not Forgiven’
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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New Veterans Justice Commission to Explore Why Ex-Military ‘Fall through the Cracks’
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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North Dakota Pipeline Company Fined $35 Million for Largest-Ever Inland Spill
The Crime Report
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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Study Explores How to Protect Domestic Violence Survivors
The Crime Report
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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Giustizia consensuale No 2/2023: Abstracts
Conflict of Laws
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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Canada authorities lay terror charges on suspected killer of Muslim family
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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Pakistan dispatch: the latest prospect of military trials for civilians unsettles the Constitution and the rule of law
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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Double jeopardy claim after inconsistent acquittal comes before the court
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Georgia will take the justices back to law-school basics – the case could be a question on a law-school examination in criminal law. For Georgia’s part, it points to the state’s undoubted right to define its own criminal law and procedural system. Share Tuesday’s argument in McElrath v. The facts are simple.
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Alaska’s Justice System Struggles to Define Mental ‘Competency’
The Crime Report
MARCH 1, 2022
In Alaska, a man accused of assaulting a woman behind a grocery store who was later found incompetent to stand trial for multiple felonies including assault, sexual assault, and robbery, and was then released back into the community, has highlighted a major flaw in the state’s criminal justice system, reports Alaska’s News Source.
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Good Doc, Bad Doc: Supreme Court Finds Prescriber Knowledge Counts
FDA Law Blog
JUNE 28, 2022
Supreme Court (six justices) issued a noteworthy opinion on criminal liability related to prescribers of controlled substances. Gilbert & Karla L. Palmer — On June 27, 2022, in one of the last opinions issued during its current term, a majority of the U.S. 841) and its implementing regulations (21 C.F.R. 21 U.S.C. §
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At The Criminal Justice Safety Office
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 16, 2022
After all, each of us is subject to some risk of harm, however marginal, when the state’s monopoly on coercion and violence is exercised through an imperfect criminal justice system. . Error is part of the human condition and criminal justice is conducted by humans. . Why would that be true?
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US DOJ announces indictment against India national for assassination plot against Sikh separatist
JURIST
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday an indictment against an Indian national named Nikhil Gupta for an alleged unsuccessful plot to assassinate a US citizen of Indian descent who is a Sikh separatist.
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After days of armed attacks, World Food Program scraps North Darfur operations
JURIST
DECEMBER 31, 2021
All of the program’s warehouses in the city were raided over the course of three days this week, and attackers made off with upwards of 5,000 metric tons of food, as well as portions of the warehouse structures, according to a statement released Thursday by the WFP. The shuttering is expected to affect some two million people in the area.
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Application of legislation limiting what is a gang crime doesn’t violate state constitution
At the Lectern
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Proposition 21, passed in 2000, made defendants eligible for increased punishment, including the death penalty, if they were gang members who committed murder “to further the activities of the criminal street gang” and it incorporated the definition of “criminal street gang” in Penal Code section 186.22(f).
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In opioids “pill mill” case, justices grapple with physician intent
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 2, 2022
For nearly 90 minutes on Tuesday, the court grappled with the question of whether good faith is a defense for doctors criminally prosecuted for unlawful distribution of controlled substances. The oral argument tea leaves were difficult to read, and there was no evident split among the justices that tracked any kind of ideological divide.
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Every Prosecutor’s Office Should Be Investing in Data
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Local prosecutors hold enormous power over the outcomes of criminal cases. But as more and more communities demand new approaches to prevent crime and promote justice – and as misinformation about justice reform abounds – it’s long past time to unlock the black box of prosecution. Now, more need to follow suit.
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Kenya dispatch: discovery of graves and starving victims at ‘death fast’ cult camp shocks country, prompts investigation and arrests
JURIST
APRIL 26, 2023
Even various members of government have come out to condemn the acts of Pastor Mackenzie and the manner in which the security agencies have handled the situation: “Our criminal justice system failed the people of Kilifi in the same way it has failed the country countless times. This is a colossal failure of the State.
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Lengthy Prison Terms Not ‘Significant Deterrent’ to Crime: Report
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Research shows criminal careers typically end within a decade, and that recidivism rates fall measurably after about a decade of imprisonment, wrote Senior Research Analysts N azgol Ghandnoosh and Ashley Nellis in a briefing paper released Thursday. In Washington, DC, the level was even higher in 2020, at 39%. Over 770,000 people in U.S.
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The History of Inmate Education
Blackstone Career Institute
MARCH 28, 2024
Just three years later, 250 incarcerated people at San Quentin Federal Prison in California were enrolled in courses at the University of California. Inmate education initiatives now include distance learning programs, partnerships with community colleges and universities to provide accredited degrees, and digital literacy courses.
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Can Your Birth Year Predict Future Arrest Rates?
The Crime Report
JUNE 23, 2021
Now, a group of Harvard University researchers say in an unprecedented longitudinal study that they’ve identified another societal marker that can be used to predict the trajectory of criminal behavior: the changing social and historical context of when someone comes of age based on when they were born. . Sampson and Ph.D.
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What is a Public Defense Paralegal?
Paralegal Bootcamp
JULY 25, 2022
A program in criminal justice is a common choice because this exposes students at an early stage to a range of law-related subject matter. Jodi Bowen is a writer and advocate with a lifelong passion for social justice and community work. About the Author. Billable Hour Boot Camp.
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5 Benefits of Inmate Education
Blackstone Career Institute
APRIL 12, 2024
Reduction in Recidivism According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics study (compiled data from 2005-14) of 30 states, 68% of released prisoners were arrested within three years, 79% within six years, and 83% within nine years. Many of our students have a sponsor that helps supporting them financially throughout their course.
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Subjective intent of wrongdoing required to convict doctors under Controlled Substances Act
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Share With a majority opinion that will be one of Justice Stephen Breyer’s last for the Supreme Court, the court on Monday ruled 9-0 that two alleged opioids “pill mill” doctors could not be convicted absent a jury finding that they subjectively believed they were wrongfully dispensing pills. The case, Ruan v.
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The Collaborative Courtroom: A Proposal
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 11, 2021
But let’s notice that we have built an entire culture of adversarial criminal justice practice around this simple device for assisting juries. Everyone sees the entire criminal justice process, from arrest through sentencing, as a zero-sum war between irreconcilables—between a vengeful state and an accused individual.
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No ‘Villains’ Other Than Attacker in Uvalde Shooting: TX Legislators
The Crime Report
JULY 20, 2022
“Other than the attacker, the Committee did not find any ‘villains’ in the course of its investigation. The director of the Criminal Justice Center at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Tex. There is no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives,” the committee wrote in its report.
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