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Source: Google News Alert Service, April 22, 2009.

NEWS:

Alleged 'Craigslist killer' was heading to Foxwoods with fiancée
Boston Globe - United States
"Ellen Berlin, chief spokeswoman for the Boston University School of Medicine, said Markoff has been suspended because of the criminal charges. ...
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Senegalese Gay Activists Freed
Voice of America - USA
In a packed courtroom in downtown Dakar, the appeals court pardoned all nine defendants and overturned charges of committing unnatural acts and criminal...
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Parole board chairman will step down
Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... Powers formed a committee that included victim advocates, prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys and others to review the board's procedures. ...
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Nations look to Kenya to try pirates
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
They were convicted and are serving prison sentences in Kenya of seven years each. Washington has not ratified the UN-sponsored Law of the Sea, which allows ...
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The future of Nizam-e-Adl
Pakistan Observer - Islamabad,ISB,Pakistan
There were High Court instructions for the Magistrates to give exemplary maximum punishment in certain districts which were counted as inhabited by criminal...
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BLOGS:

Hot Air ť Blog Archive ť Obama flip-flops on potential torture ...
By Ed Morrissey
? 'All of them believe that things were done that probably passed the threshold into criminal law, but that they wouldn?t be things that would trigger a prosecution or even an investigation, because of the existence of these OLC .... I?m saying that if you intentionally provide faulty legal advice knowing that it will lead to a crime, then that should be a crime. The fact that it has to be intentional and in furtherance of committing a crime makes it not a slippery slope. . '.".
Hot Air ť Top Picks - http://www.hotair.com/

News that Fits Ť Fraud with Peril: Levin & Gallagher Lawyers
By Steve Levin
"The Times adds, ?Senators voted to confirm Covington & Burling partner Lanny Breuer for assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division, on an 88-0 vote; Hogan & Hartson partner Christine Varney for assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, on an 87-1 vote; ..... The Connecticut Law Tribune (4/21) reports that Eric Gaynor, 46, an attorney from Orange, CT, ?has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in federal prison for operating a child pornography Web site. ..."
Fraud with Peril: Levin & Gallagher... - http://federalmdlawyers.wordpress.com/

Common Man News: Torture memos reveal brutality of US imperialism
By themancommon
"The memos? evident purpose was to provide legal assurances to CIA interrogators that they would not face criminal prosecution for torture. The first memo, written by OLC counsel Jay Bybee in August of 2002 and addressed to John A. Rizzo ... The ruling elite?s clemency toward those who have committed the heinous crime of torture stands in sharp contrast to its enthusiastic prosecution of those filling up the American prison system?by far the largest in the developed world. ..."
Common Man News - http://themancommon.blogspot.com/

Strange Justice
By bussorah
"Now 48, he spent almost half his life in upstate prisons for rape, robbery and assault charges stemming from a June 1984 crime against a woman in the Bronx. Not until 2006 did DNA absolve him of the 1985 conviction. He was innocent. .... The task force's proposals, as well as those from the Innocence Project and some members of the state legislature, seek to increase the fairness and accuracy of the criminal justice system. Lentol, for one, has sponsored legislation that ..."
Strange Justice - http://stju.blogspot.com/

Scoop: The Bush Admin's Stunning Geneva Hypocrisy
"Then, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush, and other administration officials orchestrated a chorus of outrage, citing those TV scenes as proof of the Iraq's government contempt for international law in general and .... Hersh wrote in The New Yorker's May 24, 2004, issue that "the roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year [2003] by Secretary of Defense ..."
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Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).