By Brendan Farrington | The Associated Press | March 31, 2023
The bill passed on a 29-10 vote and will allow the death penalty with a jury recommendation of at least 8-4 in favor of execution. The House still needs to approve the bill. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis supports the proposal.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Frederick P. Sisto | March 31, 2023
The article makes the case that the presumption of detention has been misapplied and overused in the case of defendants with no prior records.
By Emily Saul | March 30, 2023
The statement attacks both Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and President Joe Biden.
By Emily Saul | March 30, 2023
As former Executive Deputy AG, Bragg led that office's Special Investigations and Prosecutions Unit, which investigates and prosecutes cases in which unarmed individuals die during interactions with law enforcement.
By Andrew Denney | March 30, 2023
In a case that attracted national media attention, Tioga County businessman Calvin Harris was accused of killing his wife Michele Harris in the hours after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Neither Michele Harris' body nor a murder weapon were ever found and the fourth trial for murder charges against Calvin Harris, in 2016, ended in acquittal.
By Emily Saul | March 30, 2023
The charges on which the former president was indicted were not immediately clear, though the grand jury has been hearing evidence relating to hush-money payments made in 2016 during his first run for president.
By Jane Wester | March 30, 2023
The indictment emphasized that Figueroa was subject to the U.S. Courts' Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees, along with SDNY personnel policies preventing him from recommending particular attorneys to members of the public.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | March 30, 2023
"We recognize that 'Preston' has been effectively overruled by intervening Supreme Court precedent, and thus we hold that, under Pennsylvania law, conspiracy to commit robbery does not constitute a 'crime of violence' for purposes of the career offender enhancement," the appeals court said.
By Jane Wester | March 30, 2023
New charges weren't part of the reason for his extradition from the Bahamas in December, his lawyer argued.
By Jeffrey Collins | The Associated Press | March 30, 2023
Judge Clifton Newman returned to Cleveland State University, where he earned his law degree in 1976, to discuss his career and the six-week trial that ended in Murdaugh's murder convictions for killing his wife and son and life sentence.
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