Hike sentence for accidents - MSN India
26 May 2012, 3:46 am
New Delhi: People don't seem to trust the law when it comes to handling motorists involved in fatal accidents. The fact that some people are tempted to take law in their own hands while the helpless ones are forced to take out candle marches for justice ...

Ex-San Leandro officer pleads no contest to marijuana charge, gets light sentence - Inside Bay Area
26 May 2012, 12:40 am
HAYWARD -- A former San Leandro police detective charged last year with giving marijuana to a police informant with whom he was having an extramarital affair has pleaded no contest to a lesser misdemeanor possession charge, a District Attorney's ...

Bank robber foiled by LPD officer in line gets 41-month sentence - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
25 May 2012, 10:52 pm
Allen Azaryan, whose midafternoon attempt to rob the downtown Wells Fargo Bank five months ago was foiled by a Lubbock police officer also doing business at the bank, was sentenced Friday to 41 months in federal prison. And he may wind up closer ...

Inmate serving murder sentence escapes - Baltimore Sun
25 May 2012, 10:02 pm
An inmate serving a 10-year prison sentence for second-degree murder walked out of a Baltimore detention facility on Friday morning, never reported to his scheduled work-release job and was considered escaped by Friday afternoon, according to ...

TEMECULA: Gang member receives 50-to-life sentence in slaying - Riverside Press Enterprise
25 May 2012, 8:15 pm
A 21-year-old man convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a fellow gang member’s girlfriend through the window of her Temecula home was sentenced Friday, May 25, to 50 years to life in prison, authorities said. Jose Adan “Ghost ...

Nevada High Court upholds death sentence for Vietnam vet - Desert Sun
25 May 2012, 5:44 pm
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for a Vietnam veteran who pleaded guilty to the 2007 rape and murder of a Las Vegas widow at an assisted living apartment complex where both lived. Frederick ...

Pakistan officials: Doctor's sentence payback for bin Laden raid, U.S. need to move on - FOX News
25 May 2012, 7:50 am
Top Pakistani government officials on Friday said the 33-year prison sentence for the doctor who helped the CIA track down Usama bin Laden is payback for how the U.S. went about getting the Al Qaeda leader, and they shrugged off criticism of ...

Court clerk who was first to be jailed under Bribery Act has sentence cut - The Guardian
24 May 2012, 6:33 am
A court clerk who made legal history when he became the first person to be jailed under new bribery legislation has won a two-year cut in his sentence. Munir Patel, 22, of Dagenham, east London, was originally handed a three-year prison term for ...

Afridi gets 33 years for treason; US officials critical of sentence - DAWN Group
23 May 2012, 2:12 pm
PESHAWAR: Pakistani authorities have sentenced a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden to 33 years in jail on charges of treason, officials said, a move almost certain to further strain ties between Washington and Islamabad.

Dharun Ravi sentence in Rutgers webcam case renews hate crime law debate - Washington Post
22 May 2012, 10:53 am
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A week before Dharun Ravi was sentenced to jail for using a webcam to spy on a gay college roommate who later killed himself, supporters rallied behind him, arguing that New Jersey laws should be changed so that someone in his ...