Word: legalism
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...most any episode of CSI will tell you, DNA testing is a staple of modern crime investigations. But only now is the U.S. Supreme Court wading into the murky legal terrain surrounding high-tech fingerprints in forensics. A sharply divided court ruled on June 18 that prisoners do not have a constitutional right to DNA testing that could prove their innocence, deciding against an Alaska man convicted of rape and assault who sought a more sophisticated test of genetic material found at the crime scene. Four Justices supported the man, William Osborne, but the court's majority said the decision...
...streets in his first public address since the outcome of last Friday's disputed presidential election. He insisted there had been no fraud in the result, describing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election win as "definitive." He added that the "Islamic establishment would never manipulate votes and commit treason. The legal structure in this country does not allow vote-rigging. If the difference was 100,000 or 500,000 or 1 million, well, one may say fraud could have happened. But how can one rig 11 million votes?" For Khamenei, the election was proof positive that democracy in Iran was there...
...What would a better law look like? The Delhi court suggested that because children are usually put to work by their families, a more effective legal tactic to fight this kind of human trafficking would be to prosecute the family members as well as the placement agency. Sinha of the NCPCR says that the court's suggestion - though not legally binding in any way - could be a step in the right direction. "When you are talking about child Labor, no action is trivial," she says. "Every action is important because it is a step forward." Vikram Srivastava from Child Rights...
...India's existing laws on child labor haven't been effective for a mixture of legal and cultural reasons. The Child Labor Act prohibits any child below the age of 14 to be employed as a domestic help or in eateries, carrying a punishment for employers of up to 3 months of imprisonment and a fine of about $200, or both. The legislation, however, is in conflict with the older Juvenile Justice Act, which is also applicable in prosecution of child labor cases, but defines children as under 18. The conflicting ages make prosecution a cumbersome process, and the pervasive...
...PSNI said in a statement it would accept the decision. "Nevertheless, the investigation into this atrocity remains active and ongoing. Police will continue to endeavor to use every possible legal means to access information which may assist their inquiries...