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California prosecutors charge three Alameda police officers with involuntary manslaughter of detainee Mario Gonzalez in 2021

JURIST

That statute criminalizes “the unlawful killing of a human being without malice … in the commission of a lawful act which might product death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection.” News reporters have compared the series of events to the death of George Floyd in 2020.

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Bosnia Constitutional Court rejects appeal by man convicted of war crimes

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The Court of BiH, Section I for War Crimes, awarded the first-instance verdict against Šušnjar in 2019, finding him guilty of committing war crimes against civilians under Article 142 in conjunction with Article 22 of the Yugoslavian Criminal Code and sentencing him to 20 years in prison, a verdict upheld by the Appellate Panel in March 2020.

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ICC approves formal investigation into Philippines ‘war on drugs’ 

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In July 2020, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stated that the Human Rights Council should consider new accountability measures in the “war on drugs.” The panel noted that victims alleged crimes including murder, torture, imprisonment, sexual violence and enforced disappearance.

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Does a Crackdown on Right-Wing Domestic Terror Threaten Everyone’s Civil Liberties?

The Crime Report

Capitol, elected officials and terrorism experts revived previous calls for Congress to pass a domestic terrorism statute that would empower the federal government to investigate and pursue white supremacists and other domestic terrorists with the same tools it uses to go after international terrorism. but as individual criminal cases.

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Can the ‘War’ on Gun Violence Learn From the Mistakes of the War on Drugs?

The Crime Report

In a paper first published in the Fordham Law Review and posted online last month, Levin argued that the “widespread recognition” of the failure of aggressive drug enforcement “has ushered in a moment of great possibility for criminal justice reformers.”. My aim is not to suggest an apples-to-apples comparison between guns and drugs.

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Justices to decide what it means to “use” a locomotive

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Share The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and railworkers. Union Pacific also emphasizes several ways in which LeDure’s broad reading would “break the statute.” The court will hear argument on Monday in LeDure v.

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The Supreme Court doesn’t decide all important issues

At the Lectern

The contested legality of a statute making a significant change to the state’s criminal law, that’s certainly “an important question of law.” Marquez (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th Lippert (2020) 53 Cal.App.5th Bucio (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th 5th 304, review denied ). Lippert ; People v.

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