Results tagged “districtcourt”

CNET reports, via Reuters and the South China Morning Post, that a courts in a city in Shandong province have been using a computer program to help calculate sentences in more than 1,500 criminal cases:

Shanghaiist’s first memory of public sexual harassment in this city dates back to high school, when buses were extremely crowded and rules about what boys shouldn't say and what they shouldn't touch had not yet been implemented. Actually ... wait a minute ... has anything changed since sexual harassment laws were put into place last year? (Yep, last year.) Ms. Sun, in this Beijing Times report, obviously doesn’t think so after she was molested by a 40-something-year-old man on the bus. She called police, who later took both of them to the police station. Sun said she sought the help of one male passenger who was sitting next to her, but he said he couldn't be a witness because he didn’t notice the encounter -- he was watching TV. Sun was told to leave the station and the middle-aged molester was asked to stay. The story doesn't say what happened after that.

Of course, it is happening in the United States: