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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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Who’ll Shoot First? How Relaxed Gun Rules Fuel a ‘Small Arms Race’

The Crime Report

Vigilante Justice Firearm Laws. The law professors detail that the small arms race arises from three main “troubling” legal implications, and it’s looking at the examples of Wisconsin and Georgia’s laws that “exemplify this perilous confluence.”. Legal Solutions.

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Are Victims of Police Shootings Entitled to Crime Victims’ Compensation?

The Crime Report

The paper’s author, Valena Elizabeth Beety, a professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, argues that as current legislation stands, VCFs automatically disqualify victims of police shootings and their families because of who the perpetrator is. “A Who is a Victim? .

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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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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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Assault or Self Defense? The Arrest of Former Broncos Player Raises Tough Legal Questions

JonathanTurley

However, the law also states that, except for a couple of limiting provisions, “a person employing protective force may estimate the necessity of using force when the force is used, without retreating, surrendering possession, doing any other act which he has no legal duty to do or abstaining from any lawful action.”

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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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