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Amnesty International report alleges Pegasus spyware targeted India journalists

JURIST

.” This report emerges amidst a global discourse on government use of spyware and in the context of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act , 2023 and recently enacted criminal laws aimed at reform, which have been criticized for increasing state surveillance and being ambiguous.

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Canada Supreme Court Considers ‘Extreme Intoxication’ Defense in Murder Trial

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The law led an Ontario trial judge to convict Chan of manslaughter and aggravated assault, despite finding that he, with no apparent rational motive for the attack, had been in a drug-induced, “not reasonably foreseeable” psychosis that rendered him incapable of knowing that his actions were wrong, or of reasonably controlling them.

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President Reagan shooter given unconditional release by US judge

JURIST

US District Court Judge Paul L. Hinckley was sent to a Washington D.C. Prosecutor Kacie Weston stated during Hinckley’s Wednesday court hearing that this case “has demonstrated the success that can come from a wraparound mental health system.”

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“Decidedly Not Credible”: Federal Court Rejects Spousal Immunity in Criminal Case

JonathanTurley

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. In United States v. United States v. Sims, 755 F.2d

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Texas Supreme Court Lifts Restraining Order Protecting Democratic Legislators from Arrest

JonathanTurley

Last night, the Texas Supreme Court lifted the temporary restraining order. The lack of case law was at the heart of the “fact check” of the PolitiFact. Such fact checks are often challenged as biased, including the well-known fact checking at the Washington Post ( here and here ). Thus, there is no legal clarity.”

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With historical promises in mind, justices weigh state criminal jurisdiction in Indian country

SCOTUSBlog

Share At the last Supreme Court oral argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, the court stepped into a dispute over the state of Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction authority in Indian country. In Indian country, state criminal jurisdiction is limited to crimes involving non-Indians only. federal enclaves).

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Off-duty Virginia police officer sentenced to 87 months for January 6 riot

JURIST

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. in Robertson’s car on the morning of January 6, 2021.