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Grand Jury recommends: indict Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Obama
renewamerica.us - Washington,DC,USA
"In 1946, The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure were adopted. In those procedures, they made a rule to punish runaway grand juries. ..."
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Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA
"Under the plan, veterans could go through a treatment program and, if they complete the program, have their criminal file sealed. ..."
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Ex Minister Roncevic Could Get 10 Years in Prison
Javno.hr - Zagreb,Croatia
"In that case, the minister would answer for the criminal act of abusing his official position and powers, which is punishable with between one and ten years ..."

Torture memos reveal brutality of US imperialism
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
"The memos' evident purpose was to provide legal assurances to CIA interrogators that they would not face criminal prosecution for torture. ..."
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JUSTICE MINISTER INTERVIEW
Javno.hr - Zagreb,Croatia
The new Law on Criminal Process is in process of being adopted and, among other things, there is mention of the possibility of postponing its adoption due ..."
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Police make arrest in 1989 homicide case
LimaOhio.com - OH
Early on, a couple witnesses offered testimony in exchange for plea deals in their criminal cases in another county, but the prosecutor wasn't willing to ..."
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Acknowledging the 4th Strike: Rethinking the Right to Inmate ...
Intellectual Conservative - Phoenix,AZ,USA
"34 The prison receiver's demands come amid California's record $42 billion budget deficit, as the State struggles to make difficult choices for its law ...
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BLOGS:

MPR: News Cut: Live-blogging Midmorning: Getting 'less tough on ...
By bcollins@mpr.org (Bob Collins)
"We never got tough on crime. That implies a uniform application of law enforcement. That simply doesn't happen, for a variety of reasons. Our prison sentences are ridiculous, and are not 'data driven'; they're driven by grieving, angry people. .... i never mentioned high crime, only minority groups. By conflating the two you really show your true colors. Also, if you had any understanding of the constitution and criminal procedure you would know whether any MOVE members ..."

Bush Torture Memos Released By Obama: See The Complete Documents
By The Huffington Post News Team
"The nazi officers who committed those war crimes did horrific medical experiments and surgical procedures on live, non-anesthetised subjects, often children. They butchered in cold blood, and gassed to death, millions of men, women and children, and dumped their bodies .... Every crime is in the past, isn't it? So Obama's reluctance to prosecute does suggest he may prefer to throw out the criminal law system entirely if he doesn't want to prosecute crimes 'in the past'. ..."
President Obama on The Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/big-news/

Pakistan: Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2008 - U.S. ...
"The law stipulates detainees must be brought to trial within 30 days of their arrest. Under both the Hudood and standard criminal codes, there are bailable and nonbailable offenses. Bail pending trial is required for bailable offenses and ... individuals remained in pretrial detention for periods longer than the maximum sentence for the crime for which they were charged. Human rights NGOs estimated that approximately 50 percent of the prison population was awaiting trial. ..."
Religious Persecution of Ahmadiyya... - http://www.thepersecution.org/

North Country Gazette � DOCS To Close Facilities, Changes Detailed
By North Country Gazette
"The 2009-10 State Budget, adopted in April 2009, makes numerous changes in the law that affect the Department of Correctional Services, including prison closure and reform of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. The 2009-10 State Budget, for the fiscal year that began .... Class B felony criminal sale of a controlled substance (CSCS) to a child, which involves someone over the age of 21 committing CSCS 3 or CSCS 4 to a person who is less than 17. Operating as major trafficker, ..."
North Country Gazette - http://www.northcountrygazette.org/

On the use of torture | Samizdata.net
"During his 2008 Presidential campaign, Barack Obama described Guantanamo as a "sad chapter in American history" and promised to close down the prison in 2009. After being elected, Obama reiterated his campaign promise on 60 Minutes and ..... To be guilty of a crime, one must violate a specific criminal law. The criminal law invoked here is 18 U.S. C. sec. 2340 and 2340A. Those who are calling for prosecution need to read the statutes. A plain reading of the language makes ..."
Samizdata.net - http://www.samizdata.net/blog/

Gord's Poetry Factory: Obama Gives Full Immunity to The CIA ...
By gordon coombes
"At the very least, those who wrote and authorized the memos knowing full well that they were instructing others to torture must be held accountable to the law. ?We must have a criminal investigation if the U.S. is to reclaim its moral .... The implication of his statement, and the fact that he has not, this far into his term, ordered his Attorney General to appoint a prosecutor to investigate those who were responsible for the crime, given what he clearly knows about its ..."
Gord's Poetry Factory - http://gordspoetryfactory.blogspot.com/

Dr. Orly Taitz, Dossier 6, Attorney General Eric Holder, Solicitor ...
By citizenwells
"Due to the above I renew my demand upon all the law enforcement agencies listed in this dossier to conduct immediate criminal investigator, I demand on behalf of my clients Quo Warranto proceedings to resolve those issues once and for all. ..... She was sentenced to a state prison term > of 8 years, imposed but stayed, and placed on supervised probation for 3 > years as part of a plea agreement. Liberi was sentenced on ten felony > counts ranging from Grand Theft, ..."
Citizen Wells - http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/

Firedoglake � Why Obama Took Prosescution of CIA Officers off the ...
By looseheadprop
"It has been standard operating procedure for the neo-cons to blame CIA for perceived failures and weaknesses in US policy. Once in the drivers seat, the Bush administration made a habit of blaming bad decisions on the supposed ..... For CIA officers, as for US Armed Services members, they are ALL responsible for their criminal acts, even if they get a nice shiny memo from OLC that wishes away international law and the international treaties the US has duly ratified. ..."
Firedoglake - http://firedoglake.com/

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