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Restitution, medical malpractice, and a capital appeal

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Delaware, like many states, has enacted an affidavit of merit law that requires medical-malpractice plaintiffs, in conjunction with filing a complaint, to file an affidavit signed by an expert or the plaintiffs attorney attesting to their belief that the case is meritorious. Shockley was convicted and sentenced to death.

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Supreme Court to decide if Oklahoma must execute Richard Glossip

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solicitors general – Seth Waxman, representing Glossip, and Paul Clement, representing Oklahoma’s attorney general – will appear before the justices, seeking to persuade them to set aside Glossip’s conviction and death sentence and order a new trial. 9, two former U.S. Sneed had said that he was accidentally prescribed the drug for a cold.

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