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Philadelphia district attorney sues Elon Musk for PAC money giveaways for illegal lottery

JURIST

Krasner noted in his press statement that the “civil action neither precludes nor requires potential future action under Pennsylvania criminal law.” The program is only available to voters in certain swing states, including Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. He’s paying them to sign the petition.”

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Congress Debates Federal Law That May Change How Police Are Prosecuted

The Crime Report

Code requires one of the toughest burdens of proof in criminal law to convict officers, allowing the Justice Department to charge officers who “willfully” deprive a suspect of civil rights, which aren’t specified.

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Truth, Lies and Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

Often it’s to ensure fairer and more responsive treatment at the hands of a justice system that otherwise offers them few other options, says a Rutgers University law professor.

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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022

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Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 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. We need your vote! Founded: 7/6/2021.

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Murder, They Wrote: Bush and Tlaib Publish Column Accusing Police of Covering Up Killing of Protester

JonathanTurley

They claim that the evidence shows that “Georgia State Patrol officers shot and killed Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Terán, a nonviolent activist” after one officer accidentally killed another. 18 incident was bought legally in September 2020 by Manuel Esteban Paez Teran.”

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

SCOTUSBlog

As a result, most of eastern Oklahoma is now understood to be Indian country — a development that, according to the state, has disrupted the criminal justice system there. Castro-Huerta ’s legal issues are narrower than those in McGirt. Georgia (1832). federal enclaves).

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In sequel to McGirt, justices will again review scope of state prosecutorial power in Indian country

SCOTUSBlog

Oklahoma , the most monumental federal Indian law decision of the new century. The legal issue is whether states possess criminal jurisdiction over crimes committed by non-Indians against Indians within Indian reservations concurrent with the federal government’s power.