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Righting the wrongfuls
Detroit Metro Times - Detroit,MI,USA
"Michigan, like most states in recent years, has enacted laws changing criminal justice procedures in response to the more than 200 exonerations nationwide ..."
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Russia Reinvents the Rule of Law
American Enterprise Institute - Washington,DC,USA
"The courts won a significant, though far from complete, victory in the battle for control of criminal procedures over the procurators: judges acquired the ..."
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Legalize marijuana? Schwarzenegger says let's debate it
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
"Maybe instead of spending tax dollars on the ?war on drugs? and prisons, we could sell these drugs to people who choose to use and offer help for those who ..."
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Bloggers, TV, Go Nuts Over Misleading 'Patriot Act' Arrest Claim
Wired News - USA
"He has no prior criminal record. He is being held incommunicado, with limited visits from this mother and attorney in a juvenile facility that if he is ..."
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President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
TPM - New York,NY,USA
"During her tenure in the Clinton Administration, Robinson oversaw the largest increase in federal spending on criminal justice research in the nation's ..."
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ReliefWeb » Document » Committee against Torture begins review of ...
"On 26 June 2006, the Knesset approved the Criminal Procedure (Detainee Suspected of Security Offence) (Temporary Provision) Law, 2006, which is a temporary provision for a defined period of 18 months, and also establishes specific provisions .... Among them, on 12 February 2007, in the case Physicians for human rights et al. v. the Minister of Public Security et al.the Supreme Court held that the State had to provide a bed to every prisoner held in an Israeli prison. ...'
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