Criminal Injury Claim – Are You Serious
Legal / Criminal Law
Aplus Legal Advice | 2022.09.19 01:30 |
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Injuries due to criminal activities, can be one of the most complex and traumatic experiences that anyone can suffer. A criminal injury claim in these terrible incidents can profoundly affect both the victim and the victim’s friends and family, leaving both emotional and physical scars that can last a lifetime.
Junk Faxes New California Law Challenged
Legal / Litigation
Aplus Legal Advice | 2022.09.19 01:13 |
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I hate junk faxes. You hate junk faxes. We all hate junk faxes! California legislators passed a law banning them, but it has been delayed to a legal challenge.
Junk Fax Prevention Act
Money Laundering in A Changed World
Legal / Criminal Law
Aplus Legal Advice | 2022.07.31 21:49 |
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If you shop with a major bank, chances are that all the transactions in your account are scrutinized by AML (Anti Money Laundering) software. Billions of dollars are being invested in these applications. They are supposed to track suspicious transfers, deposits, and withdrawals based on overall statistical patterns. Bank directors, exposed, under the Patriot Act, to personal liability for money laundering in their establishments, swear by it as a legal shield and the holy grail of the on-going war against financial crime and the finances of terrorism.
The Insanity of the Defense
Legal / Criminal Law
Aplus Legal Advice | 2022.07.31 17:42 |
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“It is an ill thing to knock against a deaf-mute, an imbecile, or a minor. He that wounds them is culpable, but if they wound him they are not culpable.” (Mishna, Babylonian Talmud)
If mental illness is culture-dependent and mostly serves as an organizing social principle – what should we make of the insanity defense (NGRI- Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity)?
A person is held not responsible for his criminal actions if s/he cannot tell right from wrong (“lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality (wrongfulness) of his conduct” – diminished capacity), did not intend to act the way he did (absent “mens rea”) and/or could not control his behavior).