1. For each additional year that a concealed handgun law is in effect the murder rate declines by 3 percent, rape by 2 percent, and robberies by over 2 percent.
2. Civil law concerns disputes among citizens within a country, and public law concerns disputes between citizens and the state or between one state and another.
3. Mr Tobin, who once lived at the house in Margate, missed two court appearances last week after he was attacked while in custody at Edinburghs Saughton jail.
4. The combating of international crime is divided into three distinct but complementary activities: the exchange of police information; the identification of wanted or suspected individuals; the arrest of those who are wanted on a warrant issued by the judicial authorities.
5. The Maryland Senate voted 35 to 10 yesterday to make it a misdemeanor for teachers, nurses, police officers and other professionals to fail to report suspicions of child abuse to authorities.
6. There are two main classes of criminal courts in England: those in which the trial of the more serious offences takes place before a judge and jury, and those in which less serious offences are tried before magistrates without a jury.
7. Nixon was charged with assaulting a police officer while armed, authorities said. She was ordered held without bond by a judge yesterday in D. C. Superior Court.
8. The bulk of judicial work in Federal courts is conducted by the district courts. About 100000 cases a year are tried, mostly civil cases involving such matters as admiralty law, civil rights and bankruptcy proceedings.
9. The wife of a U.S. Navy officer and two others have been charged in a murder-for hire plot in Newport News, in which her husband was killed for his life insurance policy and other benefits, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday.
10. Outside the three-layer federal court system there are a number of special courts, such as the Court of Claims, the Tax Court, and the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
11. A 15-year-old boy who intentionally ran down a D.C. police officer with a stolen limousine was ordered confined to a school for troubled juveniles at a court hearing yesterday.
12. The attorneys for the parties, or sometimes the judges, may then make a brief statement of the facts involved for the purpose of acquainting the jurors with the sufficient facts so that they may intelligently answer the questions put or them by the judge and the attorneys.
13. The bailiff is an officer of the court whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom, to call witnesses, and to take charge of the jury as instructed by the court at such times as the jury may not be in the courtroom, and particularly when the jury is deliberating upon decision.
14. Three people could face death penalty if convicted of the charges, which include conspiracy to commit murder, according to the U. S. attorneys office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
15. The Supreme Court has the task of interpreting laws which have been disputed in lower courts, and of deciding whether a law passed by Congress or by one of the individual states is in keeping with the Constitution.
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