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Victim’s Family in the University of Idaho Murders Appeals Gag Order

JonathanTurley

1030, 1072-1074 (1991), the Supreme Court recognized that “The speech of lawyers representing clients in pending cases may be regulated under a less demanding standard than that established for regulation of the press in Nebraska Press Assn. The Supreme Court rejected that presumption in Nebraska Press Ass’n v. Stuart , 427 U.S.

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Could The Arrest of FBI Agent Undermine The Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

JonathanTurley

While the government can encourage criminal conspirators, the courts ask whether the offense was induced by a government agent and whether “the defendant was disposed to commit the criminal act prior to first being approached by Government agents.” In Jacobson v. United States , 503 U.S.