The use of human carriers for drug trafficking is hidden in obscurity. The evidence about drug couriers is largely drawn from official sources such as law enforcement, customs authorities and court records that collectively reveal a narrow perspective of the global drug market. Definitions of the drug courier tend to ...
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What does the law of search and seizure say the result should be when a warrant authorizes the search of a digital device for evidence of a specified crime but the police find evidence of another crime when the warrant is executed? What is the distinction between the seizure of ...
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On February 14, 2023, a federal jury in Boston, Massachusetts, convicted Russian businessman, Vladislav Klyushin, of participating in an elaborate hack-to-trade conspiracy that netted millions through securities trades based on nonpublic information stolen from U.S. computer networks. Mr. Klyushin, whose company boasted of ties to the Kremlin, was arrested two ...
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On December 12, 2022, billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested at his apartment complex in Nassau, Bahamas, after criminal charges were filed in New York. It was a dramatic fall for the founder and CEO of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange that saw his $32 billion company plunge into bankruptcy. The day ...
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The phrase illegal and cruel punishments was first used by the United Kingdom Parliament in the Bill of Rights 1689 and later adopted in the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States 1791 as cruel and unusual punishments. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 ...
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Plea bargaining is not only commonplace but essential to the administration of the Canadian criminal justice system. In the modern practice of criminal law the bargain is called a joint submission when the prosecutor and defence counsel agree on a guilty plea and also agree to recommend a particular sentence ...
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On December 23, 2018, Luke Myers was a passenger in a truck stopped by the police in Truro, Nova Scotia, for motor vehicle infractions. The truck was uninsured and the investigating police officer arranged for it to be towed to a third party lot. The driver and Mr. Myers were ...
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On August 5, 2022, a search warrant was issued by federal magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that authorized the search of Mar-a-Lago, the residence of former president Donald Trump, in Palm Beach, Florida. On August 8, 2022, the FBI executed ...
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Pegasus spyware, developed by Israeli technology company, NSO Group, can access stored data on a target's mobile phone by a zero click exploit and activate the device's microphone and camera converting it into a listening and surveillance tool. American journalist, Roman Gressier, who broke a series of stories for media ...
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The United States Department of Justice has unsealed a criminal complaint charging a Russian-Canadian national as a co-conspirator in the LockBit ransomware campaign. The alleged LockBit conspiracy has globally emerged as one of the most active ransomware variants. The complaint filed in the United States District Court, District of New ...
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