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criminal liability
Coverage of criminal liability in the Nexus archive.
- Brazil Revives Its Plan to Try 16-Year-Olds as Adults
Brazil is reviving a plan to lower the age of adult criminal liability from 18 to 16. Speaker Hugo Motta assigned Mendonça Filho to draft the amendment report, with a 38-member committee set to begin work in August after the parliamentary recess. The judiciary committee has already cleared the text as the first hurdle.
- Code is ‘functional’ free speech under the First Amendment: Coin Center
Coin Center argues that code is 'functional' free speech under the First Amendment, as crypto software developers face concerns over potential criminal liability for publishing their software, following recent high-profile convictions.