Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Mehal Jain April 2, 2018 5:27 pm Change Font Size The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AM Khanwilkar on Monday issued the notice to the Centre and the state of Rajasthan in the PIL filed by Gulbahar Bibi, wife of Afrazul Khan who had succumbed to death on account of a hate crime in December 2017 in Rajasthan. Following the murder, videos of the assailant Shambhulal Regar committing the offence, along with his speech justifying the act of lynching had been uploaded on the Internet. “He (the accused) has even uploaded two videos from the (Jodhpur Central) jail!,” exclaimed Justice Chandrachud on Monday. Senior counsel Indira Jaising, appearing on behalf of the petitioner, submitted, “Where an undertrial prisoner has abused the facilities of the jail, he may be transferred…” In the 2005 judgment in Kalyan Chandra Sarkar v. Ranjan … [Read more...] about SC Notice To Centre, Rajasthan On PIL By Widow Of Hate Crime Victim Seeking Accused’s Transfer
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North Carolina police issue broad warrants for data from Google users near crime scenes
Home Daily News North Carolina police issue broad warrants… Criminal Justice By Jason Tashea Posted March 27, 2018, 1:26 pm CDT Police in North Carolina are using search warrants to collect cellphone location data of individuals near a crime scene. NBC affiliate WRAL reported that the Raleigh police department used so-called reverse warrants four times last year to demand data from Google regarding user accounts in close proximity to the location of crime. Lacking specificity, these warrants do not identify a suspect. “We are willingly sharing an awful lot of our lives with Google,” Jonathan Jones, a former prosecutor and director of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition at Elon University told WRAL. “But do people understand that in sharing that information with Google, they’re also potentially sharing it with law enforcement?” The warrants pertain to people with Google accounts, which includes those with an Android operating system on … [Read more...] about North Carolina police issue broad warrants for data from Google users near crime scenes
Cyberthreats 101: The biggest computer crime risks lawyers face
Home In-Depth Reporting Cyberthreats 101: The biggest computer crime… Digital Dangers By Mary Ellen Egan March 2018 Shutterstock Last March, attorney Jeffrey Wicks was being held at digital gunpoint. Wicks—head of a small firm handling criminal defense and civil and family law cases in Rochester, New York—was being extorted by cybercriminals who were holding his firm’s data for ransom. Wicks had apparently opened an email attachment that locked down his computer and his firm’s network. The data was encrypted, and the hackers were demanding 20 bitcoins in return for the decryption keys to unlock the firm’s files. At that time, one bitcoin was worth about $1,200, meaning the cybercriminals were demanding about $24,000 for the safe return of Wicks’ data. (At press time, the bitcoin value was more than $11,000.) After a few rounds of negotiations, Wicks ended up paying $5,000 for the network’s data. (He refused to pay for the locked data … [Read more...] about Cyberthreats 101: The biggest computer crime risks lawyers face
MNLU Mumbai (CRCJ) – IJM: One Day Workshop on Transnational Crimes with Special Focus on Human Trafficking, 20th March 2018
Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai is one of the premier institutions of India imparting legal education. International Justice Mission (IJM) is a global organisation that protects the most vulnerable from violence and oppression. IJM collaborates with local, state and national governments and grassroots organisations to protect the poor from violent forms of injustice, such as bonded labour and sex trafficking in India. With the onset of globalization, crimes have transgressed the national borders necessitating the international regulation. Primarily states enjoyed exclusive monopoly on the legitimate use of force to check crime within their territorial limit as one of the attributes of state sovereignty. The evident amplification of crimes of transnational nature like cross-border organized crime, international terrorism, drug and human trafficking requires extraterritorial monitoring. The extra-territorial nature of such crimes has led to the development of a new … [Read more...] about MNLU Mumbai (CRCJ) – IJM: One Day Workshop on Transnational Crimes with Special Focus on Human Trafficking, 20th March 2018
Supreme Court agrees to review case of death-row inmate who can’t remember his crime
Home Daily News Supreme Court agrees to review case of death-row… U.S. Supreme Court By Debra Cassens Weiss Posted February 26, 2018, 12:46 pm CST The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment prevents the execution of an Alabama inmate who can’t remember his crime. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Vernon Madison, who suffers from vascular dementia and can’t remember killing a police officer in 1985, AL.com reports. The New York Times had prior coverage of the case in a column by its former Supreme Court reporter, Linda Greenhouse. Madison had suffered a stroke in January 2016. Afterwards, a cognitive assessment showed a significant decline from previous scores, according to the cert petition. He couldn’t recall any of 25 elements in a brief story vignette, couldn’t remember the alphabet past the letter “G,” and couldn’t remember the name of the previous … [Read more...] about Supreme Court agrees to review case of death-row inmate who can’t remember his crime