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1 Jun 2021, 6:28 am by Michel Paradis
In 2016, Congress stripped commanding officers of nearly all of their traditional authority to override the verdicts and sentences courts-martial have rendered, not just in sexual assault cases but also in any case involving a serious crime. [read post]
20 May 2021, 7:59 am by Edward T. Kang
Additionally, it should also be noted that the Daubert standard was broadened to include testimony that is not scientific in nature, including testimony grounded in technical or specialized knowledge, which has expanded the applicability of the standard in civil cases. [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 4:00 am by Brooke MacKenzie
Law degree Section 9(1) of By-Law 4 provides that to apply for a license to practise law, a candidate must have one of: A bachelor of laws or juris doctor degree from a law school in Canada that was, at the time the applicant graduated from the law school, an accredited law school. [read post]
13 Mar 2021, 5:00 am by Andrew Delaney
On the impeding charge, defendant first challenges the jury instructions. [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 4:09 pm by INFORRM
These require only a civil standard of proof and can prohibit a person suspected of gang-related activities from doing proscribed actions. [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 10:56 am by Jacob Schulz
A grand jury in March 2010 indicted the nine Hutaree members on two counts of standard firearms charges—but also for attempted use of weapons of mass destruction and seditious conspiracy. [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 3:09 am by SHG
The AG is basically the civil attorney for the state, while county district attorneys prosecute criminal offenses. [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Thompson alleged Trump and Giuliani’s false claims the election was stolen fomented a raid that violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 law enacted after the Civil War to bar violent interference in Congress’s constitutional duties. [read post]
16 Feb 2021, 1:46 pm by Phil Dixon
The jury unanimously found 9 factors in mitigation (and a majority of the jury found four more), but it nonetheless imposed death. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 11:53 am by Philip Bobbitt
Whatever may be the case with Trump’s impeachment by the House when he was a sitting president, how can he be convicted if he is no longer a “civil officer”? [read post]
9 Feb 2021, 12:00 am by Daniel E. Cummins, Esq.
A fair and proper reading of the majority’s opinion does not support this forced portrayal.Granted, Wecht noted in his majority opinion in Graham that the sudden emergency doctrine “should not be understood as a ‘defense’ in the common sense, and the majority finds it ill-advised to use the word ‘defense’ in sudden emergency jury instructions in future cases, notwithstanding that the term features in the current suggested… [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 6:09 pm by Francis Pileggi
Brief Overview of the Case: The procedural background of the case involved an issue of Delaware law that the U.S. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 10:43 am by Daniel J. Hemel
The court in Powell instructed the jury that “the word ‘engage’ implies, and was intended to imply, a voluntary effort to assist the Insurrection or Rebellion, and to bring it to a successful termination. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 10:43 am by Gerard Magliocca
Another insight comes from the only reported criminal case on Section 3, in which a jury was instructed that a “voluntary” act was required to engage in insurrection. [read post]