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S v M is a 2007 decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa with import for children's rights and criminal sentencing.The court held unanimously that the best interests of the child must be considered whenever a child's primary caregiver is handed a criminal sentence.
Cape Times billboard following the arrest of Pistorius in February 2013. The bail hearing commenced on 19 February 2013 before Chief Magistrate of Pretoria, Desmond Nair. [3] [19] On the first day of the bail hearing, Magistrate Nair ruled that Pistorius was charged with a Schedule 6 criminal offence, which relates to serious crimes including premeditated murder and requires exceptional ...
12 life sentences plus 75 years South Africa: Serial rapist, went on a raping spree starting in 2012 until he was caught in 2021. [57] Mandisa Ngcobo 2024 12 life sentences plus 55 years South Africa: Planned attack on a drug business, 15 victims were forced into a small bathroom and set on fire. [58] Mthobisi Makhathini Sanele Aubrey Phetha
A man was charged with 76 counts of murder and 86 counts of attempted murder on Thursday for allegedly causing a deadly fire at an apartment building in South Africa last year that was one of the ...
S v Singo [1] is an important case in South African criminal procedure, heard in the Constitutional Court on 12 March 2002, with judgment delivered on 12 June 2002. The presiding officers were Chaskalson CJ, Langa DCJ, Ackermann J, Goldstone J, Kriegler J, Madala J, Ngcobo J, O'Regan J, Sachs J, Du Plessis AJ and Skweyiya AJ.
Here’s where the cases stand: Sentencing in New York hush money case looms Nov. 26. Trump was convicted of falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels ...
A former Detroit-area prosecutor will serve no additional time behind bars after he was sentenced Wednesday on corruption charges that he embezzled more than $600,000 from drug and drunken driving ...
In certain circumstances, robberies and hijackings (and aircraft hijacking) also carry a mandatory life sentence. Section 51 of South Africa's Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1997 prescribes the minimum sentences for other types of murders, rapes and robberies to 25, 15 and 10 years respectively, so parole is almost always granted to prisoners ...