JURIST

APRIL 12, 2021

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a petition by Guantanamo detainee Nashwan al-Tamir to dismiss the charges against him and disqualify the judge presiding over his case over conflicts of interest. Thus, the court denied the petitions brought by al-Tamir over these conflicts.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This article will explore the relationship between the theoretical knowledge gained in school and the practiced skills honed as a paralegal on the job through interactions with fellow paralegals, attorneys, and online resources. Receiving guidance from attorneys helped me develop strategies for efficient time management.

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JURIST

JUNE 14, 2023

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc ón announced formal charges against Los Angeles Councilmember Curren Price Jr. The case is in the Superior Court for the State of California for the County of Los Angeles. According to the felony criminal complaint , the state charges Price with two counts of conflict of interest.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2024

This week, Judge Mary Dimke of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington issued an interesting ruling. Bolen, she rejected spousal immunity in a criminal case where she believed the couple got hitched for evidentiary rather thanromantic reasons. facepalms] …I have the worst f [bleep] ing attorneys.”

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 3, 2022

Some other practice areas, like criminal law, may perpetually operate on a “rush” basis, and others on contingency. Urgent matters are those that require immediate attention, such as a client who tells me on Wednesday that they have a filing due to the court by Friday. What to Call this “Rush” Rate?

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A Russian national had his first appearance in an Ohio court Thursday following his extradition from South Korea for his alleged role in a cybercriminal organization. In June, Alla Witte, a Latvian national, was arraigned in federal court for her alleged role in the criminal enterprise. Deputy Attorney General Lisa O.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2022

On September 19, 2013, the Greek Minister of Public Order sent a letter to the Attorney General of the Supreme Court of Athens (“Areios Pagos”) referring to 32 instances of crimes involving members of Golden Dawn, and calling for the launch of a trial to prosecute Golden Dawn as a criminal organisation.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2022

The Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) Tuesday ruled that national governments may not permit the “general and indiscriminate retention” of traffic and location data of electronic communications. The court’s ruling comes from a long procedural history.

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JURIST

JUNE 21, 2021

A Swiss court on Friday handed down the first conviction over Liberia’s 1989-1996 civil war, sentencing Alieu Kosiah to 20 years in jail for various crimes, including rape, ordering murders, and cruel treatment of civilians. The trial also marks Switzerland’s first war crimes trial in a civilian court.

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2022

Hate Crimes Prevention Act in federal court. US Attorney Teresa Moore of the Western District of Missouri commented: Violence against others, motivated by hatred of their sexual orientation, is unacceptable. Robinson admitted that he shot M.S. and violated the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday announced multiple criminal charges against citizens of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In the District of New Jersey, the District Court issued an indictment against four individuals for an alleged conspiracy running from 2008 to 2018.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For decades, attorneys, activists, academics, and even judges have openly critiqued the War on Drugs and its associated harsh enforcement policies such as mandatory minimum sentencing. In 2000, 54 percent of the state court defendants convicted for weapons crimes were black, as compared to 44 percent white.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

Many of them collaborate closely with defense attorneys on case reinvestigation and resolution, exonerating defendants who otherwise had few remaining options. My recent research relies on interviews with prosecutors and defense attorneys from 36 different jurisdictions. Supreme Court case of Brady v. Pursuing Brady Violations.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Share In the midst of a national opioid crisis that claimed more than 100,000 lives in this country over the past year, the Supreme Court will hear a case on Tuesday about the relevance of doctors’ subjective intentions in criminal prosecutions for unlawful distribution of controlled substances. While on the surface, the case, Ruan v.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The paper said a survey of 19 “progressive” city, state and county attorneys in 14 states found that 95 percent reported their policies—which ranged from eliminating cash bail to creating programs that provided alternatives to incarceration—had lowered jail and prison populations without significantly endangering public safety.

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The Crime Report

MAY 31, 2022

This conundrum is at the heart of the justice system in many respects,” writes Matthew Zaia of the Ontario Court of Appeals, the author of the article. In R v Ghotra , involving a child trafficking case, the court in 2021 similarly denied a claim of entrapment. The Court “should strike while the proverbial iron is hot,” Zaia wrote.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

There, local prosecutors in the county’s Early Disposition Courts make plea offers “substantially harsher”—their words—if people accused of crimes merely assert their constitutional rights during negotiation. In these courts, prosecutors withhold all discovery? Rebecca Brown is Policy Director of the Innocence Project.

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LexBlog

MARCH 29, 2012

Modern technology continues to improve the life of attorneys, paralegals and legal secretaries throughout the United States. The Legal Assistant has added recently their newest product, The Family Law Assistant (TFLA). The Legal Assistant has added recently their newest product, The Family Law Assistant (TFLA). Expert Database.

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LexBlog

MARCH 29, 2012

Modern technology continues to improve the life of attorneys, paralegals and legal secretaries throughout the United States. The Legal Assistant has added recently their newest product, The Family Law Assistant (TFLA). The Legal Assistant has added recently their newest product, The Family Law Assistant (TFLA). Expert Database.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

A frequently invoked ground for Supreme Court review of a case is when it is “necessary. to settle an important question of law.” But offering the court an important legal issue is not alone enough to get a case heard. Sometimes, the court is just fine with the way the Court of Appeal has settled the issue.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 21, 2021

That scene came to mind when Attorney General Merrick Garland testified in Congress to assure members that he does not believe that parents protesting at school board meetings are domestic terrorists. Recently, the Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring the reporting of charity donors.

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The Crime Report

JULY 28, 2022

District and state attorneys nationwide are facing increasing pressure to prosecute every case the police bring to their desks. But we must not conflate being unwilling to prosecute cases up front with being an unfit district attorney. When prosecutors look to alternatives, they are quickly labeled “soft on crime.”. Rebecca Dunlea.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. The first and most awarded ODR platform – used by courts, corporations, law firms and more. The technology disappears and the attorney can get on with the matter versus dealing with multiple apps or interfaces. Dashboard Legal.

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The Empowered Paralegal

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Completing law school is just the start of your journey. You need to make sure that you know what it takes to be a reasonable attorney. The most common areas include family law, personal injury and even criminal law. You also need to have good communication school so that you can pass your case well in the court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2022

One of those is Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj, who in now in middle of a controversy over an alleged misrepresentation of the criminal record of a felon in order to secure a lower sentence in a plea deal. Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge James Plowman removed Biberaj and her office from the case.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Cooley , the Supreme Court upheld a power that tribal governments have long assumed they possessed as a basic necessity of ensuring public safety. Breyer’s opinion begins by embracing the court’s long history of describing and upholding tribal government powers as “retained inherent sovereign authority.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah has pleaded not guilty in US federal court Friday to murdering three US soldiers In Afghanistan in 2008, according to Reuters. Najibullah entered the plea in a Manhattan federal court after the prosecutor unveiled the new charges last week.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We apply Natural Language Processing and a semantic knowledge graph to the process that attorneys use to research, analyze and write complex legal documents. Our system inherently understands legal relationships and keeps up with changes in the law. Attorney users $199/mo. Demo video: Video on page: [link]. Founded: 11/1/2019.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard argument on Tuesday in Denezpi v. United States , which examines whether the federal government can bring criminal charges in federal court against a defendant previously found guilty in a Court of Indian Offenses for an offense stemming from the same act.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 23, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether to revive two federal gun restrictions struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

Share With a majority opinion that will be one of Justice Stephen Breyer’s last for the Supreme Court, the court on Monday ruled 9-0 that two alleged opioids “pill mill” doctors could not be convicted absent a jury finding that they subjectively believed they were wrongfully dispensing pills. The case, Ruan v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 22, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. In three of the past four terms, the Supreme Court has rejected broad readings of white-collar criminal laws urged by the federal government. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In Dubin v.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. The first and most awarded ODR platform – used by courts, corporations, law firms and more. The technology disappears and the attorney can get on with the matter versus dealing with multiple apps or interfaces. Dashboard Legal.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

There are so many different factors when considering whether or not it’s worth it to become a litigation paralegal, including the size of the law firm you work for and the attorney you work with at that firm. A litigation paralegal is a legal professional who provides vital support to attorneys who work in the area of litigation.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this subsection shall be on information filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. (a-1)

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

In comparison, subway crime had dramatically declined in the three decades prior to the pandemic, largely because of high ridership and “consistent” civil and criminal law enforcement. “In Gelinas also recommends the new mayor work with district attorneys to help chronic fare evaders with mental health issues.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. Attorney Matthew M. in Robertson’s car on the morning of January 6, 2021. The men were sentenced in the District of Columbia.

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