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Former acting AG for Alaska is charged with sexual abuse of minor on mock trial team

ABA Journal

Clyde “Ed” Sniffen, a former acting attorney general for Alaska, has been indicted on three felony charges of sexual abuse of a minor following accusations…

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US court indicts man for sending death threats to Supreme Court justices

JURIST

The US District Court for the District of Alaska indicted Alaska resident Panos Anastasiou on Wednesday over allegations of sending deadly threats to US Supreme Court justices and their relatives. Attorney General Merrick B.

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Illinois Scores Top Rank in Reintegrating Ex-Incarcerees, Alaska is Lowest

The Crime Report

Pardon Attorney, in the introduction to the report. A companion “report card” ranking all 50 states according to how well they measure up in nine different areas of reentry and reintegration gives Illinois the highest marks and places Alaska at the bottom. Pardon Attorney and current Executive Director of the CCRC.

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Alaska’s Justice System Struggles to Define Mental ‘Competency’

The Crime Report

In Alaska, a man accused of assaulting a woman behind a grocery store who was later found incompetent to stand trial for multiple felonies including assault, sexual assault, and robbery, and was then released back into the community, has highlighted a major flaw in the state’s criminal justice system, reports Alaska’s News Source.

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Injustice With Impunity: A Texas Tale

The Crime Report

Defense attorneys would have protested if they knew what was going on, but county and court officials kept the arrangement quiet among themselves. They complained to an immigration and employment attorney about long hours and poor living conditions. responded by charging all 10 nurses and their attorney with “patient abandonment.”

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

The remaining 97 percent have been decided by plea bargain: an arrangement made between a prosecutor, defense attorney, judge, and the defendant under which an individual enters a guilty or no contest plea in exchange for a reduction in the level of a charge, a reduced number of charges, or the recommendation of a lighter sentence.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. A second activist who filmed the action was convicted of felony conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and conspiracy trespass, a misdemeanor. Zinke , No.

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