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By Anand Doobay, Partner in the Fraud and Regulatory Department, Peters & Peters Solicitors
1. Human Rights
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Chyba v District Court...
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DAYTON -- A Dayton police officer was fired Friday for lying about use of force and a sergeant was demoted for failing to report the incident, Police Chief Richard Biehl said.
Officer Patrick Bucci "was dishonest when he said he did not use force and did not see anyone else use force" in the Feb. 26 pursuit and arrest of a motorist in West Carrollton, Biehl said.
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When a citizen witnesses the commission of a misdemeanor, Alaska law allows that citizen to arrest the offender on the spot. Alaska law does not clearly define how much assistance police may give before the citizen's arrest becomes a warrantless police arrest. The Alaska Court of Appeals in Moxie v. State adopted the "delegated citizen's arrest" doctrine, holding that a citizen making an arrest may "delegate" the task of taking an offender into custody to a police officer who did not witness the misdemeanor. The court expressed agreement with California's delegated citizen's arrest doctrine and endorsed the California courts' reasoning. However, the Moxie decision itself did not expressly define the scope of such delegation, leaving it unclear when a delegated citizen's arrest becomes a...
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KNIGHTSEN - "My mother better not have anything to do with this," Rudy Gallego told his wife Kristin shortly after finding their 4- month-old daughter Ramy missing from her bassinet inches from where they slept May 22.
As the couple frantically searched their house and called authorities that morning, Ramy's grandmother was 400 miles south introducing the 14-pound, blue-eyed strawberry-blonde baby to friends as her 2[1/2]-week-old daughter "Katrina.
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other mideast developments SYRIA Critics of Syria's authoritarian regime, at a rare gathering in Damascus, called for a peaceful transition to democracy and an end to the Assad family's 40-year- old monopoly on power. Otherwise, they said, Syria's current chaos might destroy the country. Almost 200 opposition figures and intellectuals took part in the meeting to produce "a vision about how to end tyranny," according to an organizer. EGYPT Amnesty International said Egypt's military rulers have acknowledged carrying out so-called "virginity tests" on female protesters -- the first time the army has admitted to the much criticized practice. Amnesty said in a report that Maj. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a member of the military council ruling Egypt, justified the tests as a way to protect t...
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By MARK MOREY and CHRIS BRISTOL
Yakima Herald-Republic
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BELGRADE, Serbia - Sixteen years after the bull-necked military commander went on the run, a pale and shrunken Ratko Mladic was hauled into a courtroom Thursday to face charges of genocide in ordering torture, rape and the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.
A Serbian government that has changed mightily since Mladic's alleged atrocities trumpeted his early morning arrest as a victory for a country worthy of EU membership and Western embrace. It banned all public gatherings and raised security levels to prevent ultra- nationalists from making good on pledges to pour into the streets in protest.
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Police are leaning toward Shaken Baby Syndrome as the manner of death in the homicide of an infant boy who lived on Hubbell Avenue, Lt. Andrew Cota said Wednesday.
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New interactive data tool allows users to analyze 30-year arrest trends
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. murder arrest rate dropped more than 50 percent over a 30-year period, from 8.8 arrests per 100,000 U.S. residents in 1980 to 4.0 per 100,000 in 2009, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Arrest rates for forcible rape, robbery, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and weapon law violations also decreased significantly over the 30-year period, while the arrest rates for aggravated assault, simple assault and drug abuse violations increased.