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RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – A Virginia man is looking for a chance to have a new start and an opportunity to help others after years of struggling with drug addiction. Rudy Carey has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Barrier Crimes that exist in the Commonwealth. “You can’t look at […]
Criminal Law
EU Commission told to improve legal definition of ‘terrorism’
The European Commission should give greater legal clarity on the definition of “terrorism” in EU criminal law – to prevent abuses of fundamental rights and discrimination, a report from the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) found on Thursday (18 November). The EU directive on combating terrorism was adopted four years […]
Healey appeals for hate crimes law overhaul
BOSTON (State House News Service) – Renewing her case to overhaul the state’s hate crimes statute, Attorney General Maura Healey on Tuesday argued that existing law allows for effectively “no difference” in punishment between a racist assault and a punch thrown among feuding bar-hoppers. Healey urged legislators to advance a […]
Greg Abbott orders TEA to find if Texas schools have pornographic books
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott told the Texas Education Agency on Wednesday to investigate criminal activity related to “the availability of pornography” in public schools, saying that the agency should refer such […]
What Is Kyle Rittenhouse Charged With?
Here are the five felony charges Kyle Rittenhouse faces in the trial, numbered the way they are in the amended criminal complaint, which does not list them in order of severity (the most severe is Count 4). For each of the felonies, the complaint also lists an aggravating factor that […]
Trump’s January 6 Strategy and the Steve Bannon Indictment
Updated on Monday, November 15, 2021 at 4:03 p.m. ET Does anyone still remember the Chicago Seven? They were a disparate group of radicals—some who knew each other, some who didn’t—who went to the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 to spark trouble. Trouble did indeed erupt, although maybe not […]
View from the courtroom: Govt to finally criminalise ‘enforced disappearance’ – Newspaper
Following continuous campaigning by international and national human rights organisations, the National Assembly on Nov 8 passed a bill for criminalizing practice of “enforced disappearance”. The bill — Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2021– is aimed at making amendments in the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) […]
Colorado court warning: Stop with the ‘reasonable doubt’ illustrations | Subscriber-Only Content
To prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is a fundamental, easily recognizable principle of the criminal justice system. Judges recite the legal definition of reasonable doubt over and over again to ordinary citizens called to sit on juries. Less clear is whether judges ought to describe in simpler terms what […]
Self-Defense Claims in Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery Cases Are Interrogated
As two closely watched murder trials played out in two different states this past week, juries heard strikingly similar stories: men took up guns in the name of protecting the public, and when they wound up killing unarmed people, they claimed self-defense. In one case, Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot two […]
Weapons charge could have major impact for Rittenhouse | Criminal Law
Weapons Charge Could Have Major Impact on Trial MADISON (WKOW) — Some gun rights advocates view count 6, the dangerous weapons charge by someone under 18 against Kyle Rittenhouse, as a constitutional issue. “I think Kyle was put in a really […]