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15 Apr 2021, 11:07 am by Dani Selby
Although Maryland already had a law that enabled wrongly convicted individuals to seek compensation from the state, only exonerees who have been pardoned or who have a writ of actual innocence approved by a prosecutor were considered eligible for compensation. [read post]
15 Apr 2021, 10:31 am by Matt Larsen
  Both the prosecutor and officers had withheld information about several of those suits, and upon learning this Fraser succeeded in getting his conviction thrown out. [read post]
15 Apr 2021, 7:32 am by John Elwood
Death row prisoner Frederick Whatley argues that he was denied effective assistance of counsel when his lawyer allowed him to be tried for murder and sentenced to death while wearing shackles — indeed, reenacting the crime with a toy gun while in shackles, with the prosecutor playing the role of the victim. [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 4:07 pm by INFORRM
The Secretary of State for Justice during the Second Reading of the Bill described concerns about “annoyance” as a “canard” (see further below). [read post]
Around 40 percent of people on death row in Nevada are Black, even though Black people make up just 9 percent of the state’s population. [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 7:01 am by Jonathan Holbrook
” I’ve gotten a few questions recently from law enforcement officers and prosecutors about ghost guns and the applicable law, so this post provides a summary of three topics: (i) what are ghost guns; (ii) why are they coming up as an issue now; and (iii) what do our existing state and federal laws say about them? [read post]
The bill seeks to introduce a formal presumption against prosecution and requires prosecutors to “give particular weight” to certain matters, such as the conditions that service members were exposed to during deployment, in relations to criminal proceedings for overseas offenses that were committed by service members before five years of the date of trial. [read post]
Prosecutors will be looking to see evidence of an evolution of policies and procedures that reflect the outcomes of regular, ongoing assessments. [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Four Ohio Bills Would Stiffen Penalties for Demonstrators” by Anna Staver (Columbus Dispatch) for MSN Legislative Issues Montana: “State Supreme Court Quashes GOP Subpoena Seeking Internal Judiciary Emails” by Mike Dennison (MTN News) for Missoula Current The post Wednesday’s LobbyComply News Roundup appeared first on State and Federal Communications. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 11:57 am by Victoria Gallegos
Over the past two weeks of the murder trial, prosecutors argued that Chauvin killed Floyd by pinning him to the ground. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 9:41 am by Melody McDonald Lanier
While most crimes in the United States are handled by the state courts, federal prosecutors can choose to prosecute a hate crime, especially if the circumstances are extraordinary. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 3:26 pm
Hate crime cases require the prosecutor to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the intent behind the person’s actions was motivated by the victim’s protected status. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 11:23 am by Tia Sewell
Prosecutors said that the men belonged to a Facebook group named “/K/alifornia Kommando. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 9:23 am by William Ford, Victoria Gallegos
The committee will hear testimony from Michael Bolton, inspector general for the United States Capitol Police. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 8:19 am by Patrick@nimblelight.com
The statute under which the Rape Shield Law is set forth states the following: § 3104. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 7:17 am by Marie Nioche
This should give an opportunity to Europe, in particular through its new European Public Prosecutor’s Office, to assert its digital sovereignty through the individual fundamental rights that it continues to promote without undermining the security and strategic interests of its Member States”.The third article, by Vincent Richard (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg) presents the new Regulation (EU) no 2020/1783 adopted on 25 November 2020, which recasts Regulation (EC) no… [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 6:47 am by Attorney Neil Z. Burns
A prosecutor can claim that her leaving the scene is evidence of her consciousness of guilt, however, she did claim that the air bag deployment prevented her from stopping immediately. [read post]