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Former Virginia police officer convicted in January 6 Capitol attack case

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A jury for the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday convicted former Mount Rocky police officer Thomas Robertson on all charges related to the January 6 Capitol attack. In addition, the jury found Robertson guilty of the misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

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Should a 7-Year-Old Accused of Rape Be Arrested?

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The case has renewed focus on a bill that has continued to work its way through New York’s State Legislature that would raise the minimum age at which a child may be charged as a juvenile delinquent in family court from 7 to 12 (except for homicide offenses) and divert cases involving younger children to social and other services.

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‘Jailhouse Screening’ Puts Undocumented Immigrants at Greater Risk: Paper

The Crime Report

immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. Brown had to spend three weeks in jail waiting for his court appearance?time time that without the immigration detainer, he would have spent at home.

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Warren Hastings and the Historical Basis for Retroactive Impeachments

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This has remained an open question and much contested in the United States as I noted in my later North Carolina article. Jonathan Turley, The “Executive Function” Theory, the Hamilton Affair and Other Constitutional Mythologies, 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791-1866 (1999).