Jailing Without Trial Rejected in Canada
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TORONTO, Feb. 23 -- Canada's Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down the use of secret testimony to imprison and deport foreigners as possible terrorist suspects, ruling that the procedures violate Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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TORONTO (CP) - A New Brunswick man who was allegedly planning a shooting spree before it was thwarted by a friendly dog was sent back to jail Friday after prosecutors refused to let him plead guilty to weapons charges.
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Ministers have backed down on proposals allowing people suffering from mental illness who have not committed a crime to be locked up.
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There were calls today for terror suspects being held without charge in British prisons to be brought to trial, following criticisms from a high-level United Nations anti-torture body.
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JAKARTA - An Indonesian court yesterday rejected an attempt by alleged Jemaah Islamiah leader Abu Bakar Bashir to be released from jail, clearing the way for his trial under tough anti-terror laws.
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Ja Rule will plead not guilty to a Canadian assault charge.   For real.
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LETHBRIDGE, Alta. (CP) - Sending an RCMP officer to jail for shooting a drunken prisoner who grabbed his gun would amount to cruel and unusual punishment, Mike Ferguson's lawyer argued Thursday.
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A federal judge rejected a request by prosecutors to send former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry to jail for violating his probation in a criminal tax case.
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Britain's highest court ruled Thursday that the government cannot detain terror suspects indefinitely without trial.
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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair revived a plan yesterday for jailing terror suspects without trial after three men eluded police monitoring and disappeared, but he likely faces a new battle with civil liberties campaigners, judges, and political opponents.
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(OfficialWire) -- 12/16/04 -- Britain&#39;s highest court ruled Thursday against holding terror suspects without trial, saying the government cannot detain terror suspects indefinitely without trial.
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A federal judge has refused to revisit the prison sentence he handed Mike Danton for the former St. Louis Blues player's failed bid to have his agent killed, again foiling the inmate's push to be transferred to his native Canada to serve his time.
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REGINA (CP) - Saskatchewan's highest court has rejected an appeal by two men convicted in a bloody home invasion that killed an senior Regina couple.
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VANCOUVER  (CP) - A man accused of sex-torture crimes - some allegedly involving children in foreign countries - will go to trial, a provincial court judge ruled Thursday.
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A federal judge has rejected a man's bid for exoneration in a child-molestation case explored in a noted documentary film, saying he filed his appeal too late.
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A US military judge Monday rejected a defense motion to bar evidence gained from a key suspect&#39;s computer in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.