Ukraine Plans NATO Referendum: Poroshenko says NATO membership to be decided by poll – Video

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NSA Shri Ajit Doval Sir on Excellence in Leadership hosted by Vidarbha Management Association – Video

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NSA to meet President, common Opposition leaders in Sri Lanka

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National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval, who will be in Sri Lanka on Monday, will meet top leaders of the newly-formed common Opposition platform, in addition to meeting President Mahinda Rajpaksa, The Hindu learns from political sources in Colombo.

Mr. Doval is on Monday scheduled to deliver the keynote address at Galle Dialogue 2014, an international conference on maritime security and cooperation in the coastal town of Galle in southern Sri Lanka.

The Presidents office confirmed that the NSA was scheduled to meet Mr. Rajapaksa. In his meeting with the President and Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Mr. Doval is expected to discuss maritime security in Sri Lanka and Maldives. China's increasing role in the island may also be raised. Just over a month ago, the NSA met Presidents brother and Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in New Delhi, to convey Indias serious concerns over Chinas growing military presence in the island. According to political sources Mr. Doval, during his visit, is expected to meet Maithripala Sirisena, who recently defected from Mr. Rajapaksas ruling party to be named common Opposition candidate in the upcoming presidential elections, and former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who is backing him. He will also meet leaders of the United National Party the main Opposition party that has joined the common platform the Tamil National Alliance and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress .

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Suit brings change in jail bookings

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LAGRANGE A looming settlement in a federal class-action lawsuit has forced some Indiana jails to change the way they handle bookings, even as similar lawsuits work their way through the states courts.

Lawsuits have been filed in at least five counties alleging violations of Fourth Amendment rights. A lawsuit involving a LaGrange County man and woman who were arrested in 2008 near a meth lab is expected to be the first to be settled. Suits also are pending in Allen, Whitley, Clark and St. Joseph counties.

The cases have focused largely on the cost of loss of liberty and have exposed jail policies that violate the Constitution, The Times of Northwest Indiana reported.

In Whitley County, for instance, Huntington resident Lawrence Bickel sued the sheriff in 2008 after he was arrested without a warrant on a Thursday in 2006. Bickels detention was not judged to have probable cause until the following Monday, because the county had a policy of taking arrestees to court just once a week regardless of when they were detained.

In LaGrange County, where Amanda Strunk and Joshua Cleveland were held for three and seven days, respectively, Sheriff Terry Martin blamed the violations on the countys prosecutor and two judges.

We found out there was a problem. We corrected the problem, Martin said of a new policy he said was crafted with the cooperation of everyone but outgoing Prosecutor Jeff Wible. Everybody agreed on it except for one person.

The new policy requires his officers to sometimes lengthen their shifts to finish paperwork related to arrests by not only their departments officers, but others, as well.

Theres a lot of paperwork in law enforcement as it is, Martin said. Weve just added on.

Attorney Christopher Myers, of Fort Wayne, the lead attorney for plaintiffs in the lawsuits, said case law makes it clear that a sheriff is responsible for enforcing Fourth Amendment rights because he holds the key to the jail.

Myers said his law firm researched the issue after hearing from inmates around the state complaining their jail stints were too long.

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11.25.14 | The Second Scoop: Ferguson Riots, The Curve, Good Gal w/ a Gun, Belt-fed M16 upper – Video

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Court to Decide if Second Amendment Covers Stun Guns

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The highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to decide whether a state law that prohibits private citizens from possessing stun guns infringes on their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. In an unusual twist, the Supreme Judicial Court is also being asked to examine whether the Second Amendment right to defend yourself in your own home applies in the case of a homeless person. Jaime Caetano, a homeless woman, was convicted of violating the state ban after police found a stun gun in her purse during a supermarket shoplifting investigation. She appealed, arguing that a stun gun falls within the meaning of "arms" under the Second Amendment and that self-defense outside the home is also protected. Prosecutors argue that the Second Amendment does not establish a constitutional right to own a stun gun. Oral arguments are scheduled Tuesday.

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Grantham seeking second term in Colo. Senate

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Kevin Grantham is hoping voters will re-elect him to his second and final term in the Colorado State Senate, representing District 2.

When the Republican ran for office the first time, he said there was a change in direction in the state and in the country that many people in conservative areas didn't agree with. A number of people asked Grantham to run for office so he could take their values to Denver, and he said that's exactly what he's done.

"There is unfinished business that needs to be taken care of when it comes to things like energy policy and Second Amendment rights," he said. "We are still heading in the wrong direction, and the conservative values of this community are not being reflected right now in total up in Denver."

He said he wants to make sure the people and their values continue to be represented.

"I think they saw that being done with me, and I hope they will put their trust in me just one more time, and we'll continue to fight for those things" he said.

During his last four years, Grantham said many of the issues he fought for are items that didn't pass, and some of the things he fought against did pass.

"The gun control legislation and the way our Second Amendment advocates up there fought for Constitutional rights was outstanding, but ultimately, we didn't have enough votes," he said. "Certainly, I am proud of the fight that we waged. Even then, at the same time, there is still legislation that needs to happen other than that."

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Homeless womans stun gun a right-to-bear-arms case

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Originally published November 28, 2014 at 6:04 PM | Page modified November 28, 2014 at 6:56 PM

BOSTON Jaime Caetano was beaten so seriously by her former boyfriend that she ended up in the hospital. So when a friend offered her a stun gun to protect herself, she took it.

Caetano, who is homeless, never had to use it but she now finds herself at the center of a Second Amendment case headed to the highest court in Massachusetts.

The Supreme Judicial Court is being asked to decide whether a state law that prohibits private citizens from possessing stun guns infringes on their right to keep and bear arms. In an unusual twist, the court is also being asked to examine whether the Second Amendment right to defend yourself in your own home applies in the case of a homeless person.

Arguments before the court are scheduled Tuesday.

Police found Caetanos stun gun in her purse during a shoplifting investigation at a supermarket in 2011. She told police she needed it to defend herself against her ex-boyfriend, against whom she had obtained multiple restraining orders.

During her trial, Caetano, 32, testified that her ex-boyfriend repeatedly came to her workplace and threatened her. One night, she showed him the stun gun and he got scared and left me alone, she said.

She was found guilty of violating the state law that bans private possession of stun guns, devices that deliver an electric shock when pressed against an attacker.

In her appeal, her lawyer, Benjamin Keehn, argues that a stun gun falls within the meaning of arms under the Second Amendment. Keehn wrote in a legal brief that the states ban cannot be squared with the fundamental right to keep and bear arms. He also argues that self-defense outside the home is part of the core right provided by the Second Amendment.

Massachusetts is one of five states that ban stun guns and Tasers for private citizens, said Eugene Volokh, a constitutional-law professor at UCLA who has written extensively about Second Amendment issues. The devices are used by law-enforcement agencies around the country.

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