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Michigan School Shooting Case Could Open the Door to More Novel Prosecutions

The Crime Report

The unusual step of charging the parents in relation to the recent Michigan school shooting could ultimately embolden prosecutors to criminalize parents when their kids commit a crime and set a kind of precedent that will hit minority parents the hardest, reports Bloomberg Law News.

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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial. Other states have minimal standards.

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Paralegals: What If Your Client Claims Innocence?

Paralegal Mentor

Cooley Law School. In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Ohio Supreme Court, and trial and appellate courts in Ohio and Michigan.

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‘Search Warrants Rot Law Enforcement’: Paper

The Crime Report

Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law where she teaches criminal law and procedure, as well as trial advocacy and critical race theory. Before joining the University, she was a tenured Associate Professor at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

After growing up in the segregated South, Drew Days attended Yale Law School, worked as a civil rights lawyer alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., He also taught criminal law and trial practice at the George Washington University School of Law. Drew Saunders Days III. 29, 1941 – Nov. Aimee Stephens.

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Cannon Fodder: The Media Piles on Federal Judge After Lionizing Manhattan Judge

JonathanTurley

Her mother escaped Cuba after the revolution and she grew up with a deep-seated faith in the rule of law. She graduated from Duke University and, after a stint as a journalist, graduated from Michigan Law School magna cum laude. Cannon is a Republican and has the temerity to follow a conservative jurisprudence.