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The bill indefinitely extends [AP report] a 2007 law, which expires next year, that calls for a full and complete accounting of racial killings, many of which have been closed cases for decades. More than 100 cases have been examined so far with one conviction, but more cases are continuously being identified.
I find high-profile, white-collar sentencing cases to be among the most interesting and dynamic because they often require a judge to balance and calibrate competing punishment theories and goals. Because most white-collar offenders are not violent and oftenhad a successful/productive life before getting into trouble, the need for severe punishment to incapacitate or specifically deter an offender from committing future crimesis often diminished.
Chauna Banks, 54, is running for re-election as District 2 representative of the East Baton Rouge Metro Council. ORG XMIT: TAgnrYkN09WVqtp5RqTo ORG XMIT: BAT1610041654530733 Chauna Banks, 54, is running for re-election as District 2 representative of the East Baton Rouge Metro Council.
The action is being taken following a Call 6 Investigation that found a student expelled for sexual misconduct can move from university to university without school officials ever knowing about their past. Congressman Andre Carson is co-sponsoring the Safe Transfer Act which would require universities to note sexual misconduct findings on a student's transcript if that student is found to have violated the school's rules or policies with regards to sexual violence.
His Nixonian campaign mantra of "law and order" demonstrates no empathy for those ensnared in the criminal justice system. Trump is not the first presidential candidate who, while running, assured his followers he would address the nation's perceived lackluster enforcement of criminal law.
Two groups of complainants in the drug cases against Senator Leila de Lima before the Department of Justice formally opposed her motion to have the cases transferred to the Office of the Ombudsman. The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption and the duo of former National Bureau of Investigation deputy directors Reynaldo Esmeralda and Ruel Lasala filed on Friday their five-page joint opposition with the panel handling the preliminary investigation of the four consolidated complaints.
The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday said Alabama could execute an inmate convicted of killing a convenience store clerk, a decision handed down after a whirlwind of legal fillings and two court-ordered delays. Justices twice paused the execution as attorneys for Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, argued for a delay, saying a judge shouldn't have been able to impose the death penalty when a jury recommended he receive life imprisonment.
The California warehouse where a horrific fire left dozens of people dead did not have any evidence of smoke detectors, was equipped with a makeshift stairwell and had no exits on the second floor, officials said Wednesday. The officials described a terrifying scene that played out as fire ripped through the building, known as the Ghost Ship, on Dec. 2, with people inside the darkened structure overcome by smoke as the building's only exit was blocked by flames.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during a vigil at the Center on Halsted in the Boystown neighborhood held to honor the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting on June 13, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Mayor Rahm Emanuel sponsored a resolution that calls on Gov. Bruce Rauner to publicly support his efforts to promote Chicago as a sanctuary city for immigrants, according to the Chicago Tribune .
Among the proposed legislation addressing immigration and border security issues in Texas is Senate Bill 108. The bill, filed by State Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, would increase mandatory minimum sentences for undocumented immigrants convicted of a first-degree felony.
If you read about or saw the descriptions of a recent incident in which a good samaritan in Florida came to the rescue of a Lee County deputy who was being beaten, you probably assumed that what the good samaritan did was legally justified in the state. But what do the actual statutes in the Sunshine State say? James Phillips, of the Katz & Phillips criminal-defense law firm in Orlando and a U.S. Law Shield of Florida Independent Program Attorney, researched the details of the incident and produced the following YouTube video to explain what the laws in the state are and how they might apply in this case: "Recently, a good samaritan who possessed a CWFL [Concealed Weapon Firearm License] came to the rescue of a Lee County deputy.
Director Jeff Nichols, who made two excellent movies in Mud and Take Shelter , released a very good movie earlier this year called Midnight Special . Loving , written and directed by Nichols, recounts the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose interracial marriage was ruled illegal by the state of Virginia in 1958, banning them from the state and sending their lives into constant turmoil.
Austin is poised to be Texas' first so-called sanctuary city, and the christening couldn't come at a more difficult time. With a president-elect and state legislature vowing to slash funding for sanctuary cities, unity is being challenged in unprecedented ways.
Weed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying marijuana should be legal. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play out? Not by a long shot.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine whether the nation's busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who's intellectually disabled, which would make him ineligible for execution under the court's current guidance. Lawyers for prisoner Bobby James Moore, 57, contend that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal court, ignored current medical standards and required use of outdated standards when it decided Moore isn't mentally disabled.
The only way to quickly deport 3 million immigrants is to first make them into criminals-and he'll have the tools to do so on day one. William Diaz-Castro is about to become one of thea "criminal illegal immigrants" whom Donald Trump campaigned against for 17 months-and whom, as president-elect, he now plans to deport immediately.
Weed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying marijuana should be legal. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play out? Not by a long shot.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights, a 50-year-old state agency charged with investigating claims of illegal discrimination, has seen its staff shrink by almost half from its historic peak in 1990. The steady drop in full-time enforcement officers and other staff comes amid a growing workload in recent years and heightened racial tensions in Minnesota over the past year.
The quoted question in the title of this post comes from the headline of this AP article . Because there are a numberof strange and confusing elements to this AP piece, I am not sure it does even a reasonable job trying to answer the question it poses.
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... During the Labor Day weekend, when many people are celebrating and preparing for the upcoming school-year, Dakota Access, a... Donald Trump has announced that Steve Bannon-former head of the online racist platform Breitbart-will be a senior adviser in... There's no doubt that if you're charged with a crime, it's good to be rich.