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...urged her to do the latter, saying the data may not even be admissible in court because of the manner in which it was obtained. Other officials and experts warned that the government would be sending the wrong message by striking such a shady deal. "The German rule of law obliges the state to tax people equally, but the state should also not deal with criminals," Moris Lehner, a professor of international law at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University, tells TIME. "The informant acquired the data through a criminal act, and the government has to weigh up its obligations very...
...Harvard Law School officials are still in discussion regarding potential responses to the deportation of an Egyptian-American HLS student from Israel in December...
...bill has won the vigorous endorsement of law enforcement (at least six groups) who say it is a "no-brainer." As it is, federal officers are "10 steps" behind the bad guys, says John R. Ramsey, national vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, because they are busy spinning their wheels, serving subpoenas on third parties or conducting long-term surveillance, trying to pierce the corporate veil. Changing the rules is such a priority that these groups are willing to redeploy homeland-security funds, intended for first responders, to pay for the implementation, because they figure it will...
...Jude Law, as Dr. John Watson, Holmes’s trusty sidekick, gives his most memorable performance since 2004’s “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.” It helps that the writers chose to grant Watson a more active role in the proceedings than he typically takes in the traditional Sherlock Holmes storyline. In fact, there is no “elementary, my dear Watson” moment in this film. Though Holmes is clearly ahead of the intellectual curve, Watson is self-confident and able to hold...
...jailed on sodomy charges, walked into a Kuala Lumpur courtroom to face the same charges once again. In August, the government charged the politician with sodomy for the second time in his career, in this case, with a 23-year-old former aide, Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Under Malaysian law, consensual sodomy or sex acts "against the order of nature," as it is described in the law here, is punishable with up to 20 years in jail...