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Updated: 'This Is Not Where He Lives': Ga. Judge Candidate's Qualification Challenged

"[H]e lives in Chattanooga with his new bride and thus is ineligible to hold Georgia office," said attorney Julie Oinonen of Williams Oinonen in Atlanta,.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut Should Require Notice to Defendants That Uncharged Misconduct Will Be Used in Sexual Assault Cases

By enacting the proposed discovery rule, Connecticut would fall in line with several other states that have adopted such a provision, the editorial board writes.
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National Law Journal

Sentencing Appeal Highlights Supreme Court's 'History and Tradition' Focus, Debate

When the text of the Constitution "does not tell us the answer...we usually look to history," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said. "We might not like it, but unless we're just making it up, I don't know where else we're going to look."
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Daily Report Online

Update: Arbery's Killers Ask 11th Circuit to Overturn Hate Crime Convictions

A panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over the Black man's killing. The appellants' lawyers argued that evidence of past racist comments they made didn't prove a racist intent to harm.
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Law.com

Court Overturns Vehicular Assault Conviction: 'Utility Vehicle' Does Not Meet Definition of 'Motor Vehicle'

Ohio had two definition of "motor vehicle," one that applies to traffic laws, and one that applies more broadly to various chapters of state law and criminal laws, the opinion said.
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Daily Report Online

Judge Versus Congressman: John Barrow Challenges Most Junior Justice Andrew A. Pinson

As the appointed incumbent seeks to retain his Supreme Court of Georgia seat through election, a former congressman is relaunching his race to become a justice.
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National Law Journal

From Caesar to Navalny: Trump Allies Make Their Case(s) Against Prosecuting Former President

Trump's supporters at the high court include more than 20 Republican states, 28 members of Congress and two former U.S. attorneys general.
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Daily Report Online

Ga. Set for First Execution in Years; Lawyers Say Man Is Intellectually Disabled

The planned lethal injection of pentobarbital is set for 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. In their request for clemency, the condemned man's lawyers called his trial "a shocking relic of the past" and said the local public defender system had severe shortcomings in the 1990s.
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Daily Report Online

McAfee Clears Way for Trump to Appeal Ruling Keeping Willis on Georgia 2020 Election Case

The Fulton County Superior Court judge has granted a request by defense attorneys seeking permission to ask the Georgia Court of Appeals to review his decision to allow the district attorney to remain on the case.
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Daily Report Online

Trump Seeks to Appeal Decision Not to Disqualify Fulton DA From Ga. Election Case

The filing asks Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to grant a certificate that would allow his decision to be reviewed by the Georgia Court of Appeals.
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