A new California law prohibits law enforcement from using threats or lies to get a minor to confess to a crime. The law faced opposition, but now a conservative district attorney is urging law ...
Imagine a justice system that recognises torture is wrong—but only sometimes. Picture a courtroom where a confession extracted from a terrified suspect can still be used for a conviction, depending on ...
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Washington State's bill to tackle sexual abuse has another legal problem when it comes to discerning between what speech is confidential and what is not, according to contract law professor Mark ...
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating an “anti-Catholic law” in Washington state that threatens priests with up to one year in jail if they fail to report child abuse ...
The Washington Capitol is pictured in Olympia April 11, 2020. Washington state's Catholic bishops asked the federal court to block a new state law they say forces priests to choose between breaking ...
Catholic clergy members in Washington may be forced to choose between excommunication or disobeying the government because of a recently signed law that requires them to break the seal of confession ...
Imagine a justice system that recognises torture is wrong—but only sometimes. Picture a courtroom where a confession extracted from a terrified suspect can still be used for a conviction, depending on ...
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