criminal-law

The judge was on the verge of declaring a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's murder case. Then her defense attorney requested time to seek an emergency stay from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Hana Shaikh, LL.M. (Criminal law), Crescent School of Law, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, TN ABSTRACT In the administration of criminal justice, witnesses play a crucial role since their evidence often helps courts resolve contentious factual issues and reach fair decisions. However, witnesses may be prevented from freely and honestly testifying by pressure, threa…

Vietnam has charged a 23-year-old man with rape after an American student said she was assaulted during a group holiday

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Arman Nasir, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), Aligarh Muslim University ABSTRACT The enactment of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), which officially commenced on July 1, 2024, marked the formal retirement of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC), a colonial-era statute that dictated India’s substantive criminal law for over 160 years. Framed by the Indian Parliament as a monumental step toward the decoloni…

This is further work from my original paper submitted, this is produced. I have tried to capture the essense of my more detailed work. I have posted and timestamped on substack, X and Linkedin from many months ago. The criminal law’s treatment of mens rea reveals that legal responsibility is not attached merely to an observable act or an intelligible explanation produced afterwards. Liability dep…

Granville Salvadore, BBA. LLB. (Hons.), MIT-WPU School of Law Research Intern, Centre for Crime Sciences and Forensic Intelligence ABSTRACT Serial-offender investigations frequently rely on behavioural similarity across offences, yet similarity alone cannot establish common authorship, identify a suspect, or support legal liability. This article develops a forensic decision-making framework for m…