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Amnesty International report alleges Pegasus spyware targeted India journalists

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.” This report emerges amidst a global discourse on government use of spyware and in the context of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act , 2023 and recently enacted criminal laws aimed at reform, which have been criticized for increasing state surveillance and being ambiguous.

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The Case for Punishing ‘Police Bystanders’

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For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman writes that Congress and state legislatures should enact criminal laws mandating a “duty to intervene” in their colleagues’ misuse of force.

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Virginia Doctor Convicted of Decade-Long Drug Distribution Conspiracy

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An Arlington County doctor has been convicted on all but one count of oxycodone distribution in a 21-count indictment naming her as part of decade-long drug distribution conspiracy, Salvador Rizzo reports for the Washington Post. Ball testified at her trial in U.S.

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Media companies investigating data leak uncover global abuse of cyber-surveillance technology

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The list of numbers includes the editor of the Financial Times, Roula Khalaf, co-founder of Indian news website The Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan, and associates of the murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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President Reagan shooter given unconditional release by US judge

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Hinckley was sent to a Washington D.C. After Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity at trial but has since received mental health treatment. mental hospital for treatment but since 2016 has resided in Virginia.

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Black Crime Victims ‘Systematically Excluded’ from Victim Rights Efforts

The Crime Report

The neglect is fueled by media coverage, Ravid concluded after analyzing a dataset of 10 years of articles from The Washington Post’s coverage of federal and state homicide cases from Virginia, Washington D.C., Itay Ravid is an Assistant Professor at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. and Maryland.

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‘Just Prosecutors’ Take Lessons From Hip Hop, BLM

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criminal legal system and turns even so-called progressive prosecutors into “win-seekers rather than neutral agents of justice,” warns a Virginia law professor. criminal legal system, needs to be fundamentally reimagined. This academic year, the WLU Law students voted him Faculty Member of the Year.