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5 Oct 2023, 2:48 pm
Criminal defense attorneys practicing here in Texas, both in state and federal court, know all too well that it is a common practice for the government to punish defendants for exercising their rights – especially their right to a trial. [read post]
23 Apr 2022, 1:28 pm
He will be an exceptionally weak speaker, perhaps almost comparable to Dennis Hastert, who was largely a figurehead. [read post]
17 Aug 2021, 3:13 pm
In both Texas prosecutions and federal criminal matters, many – if not most – arrests do not end up as a criminal conviction with formal sentencing after a full trial before a judge or jury, but instead are resolved out of the courtroom in what is called “plea bargaining. [read post]
27 Apr 2021, 1:41 pm
He'd have the Democrats talking about Dennis Hastert and tying him various Republicans, and not about how Democrats have gone way too far with wokeism. [read post]
30 Oct 2019, 5:16 am
[Dallas Morning News] * Lawyers have sought a delay of the trial involving former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's alleged agreement to pay hush money to a former student. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
In a sense, the Republicans in the US House of Representatives have already mimicked that approach by adopting the so-called Hastert Rule (named for the disgraced child abuser and former Speaker Dennis Hastert, although the rule was actually introduced by his predecessor Newt Gingrich). [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 4:47 am
Thomas, Damon Key Leong Kupckak Hastert, Honolulu, HI https://www.jngi.org/gateway-conference/ [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 9:30 pm
Senate by prohibiting either party from implementing a version of the “Hastert rule”—a norm that originated in the mid-1990s under then-Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. [read post]
13 Dec 2017, 5:54 am
[Los Angeles Times] * Former House speaker Dennis Hastert is not to be left alone with children. [read post]
On supervised release, Hastert faces new restrictions on porn, contact with minors - Chicago Tribune
12 Dec 2017, 7:32 pm
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, including barring him from possessing pornography, using sex chat lines or having any contact with minors except in the presence of an adult who is aware of his sexual abuse of boys decades ago. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm
Sometimes lawyers are right about the law and wrong about the proper path.Our elected officials have to stop the wink and a nod to Hollywood, the bishops, the powerful boarding schools, pro sports, the United States Olympic Committee, and their own, like Dennis Hastert. [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 7:15 am
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 24, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter:OJ Simpson faces good chance at parole in Nevada robberyFormer House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves prison after 13 monthsGovernment of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of OntarioSears Canada gets approval to begin liquidation sales Friday High-profile Toronto lawyer Ari Goldkind avoids contempt finding after skipping court for TV appearance Supreme Court of. [read post]
31 May 2017, 8:11 am
That was one of the big challenges that the prosecutors faced in the Dennis Hastert case, remember? [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 7:53 am
For more on public officials entering into plea agreements, read our past discussion in “Dennis Hastert Plea Deal: My Prediction Coming True and The Impact on Future Prosecutions” and “Texas Judge Suzanne Wooten Found Guilty of Bribery, Money Laundering & Plea Deal, No Jail Time. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 6:05 am
[The American Lawyer] * Speaking of Republican leadership, former Speaker and Dickstein Shapiro alum Dennis Hastert trying to get out of paying the rest of that hush money that landed him in prison. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
This is not like the Dennis Hastert scandal where everyone could pretend his problems from the past don’t affect Republicans now.Starr, the son of a minister, was a literal star in the Republican firmament: he clerked for Chief Justice Warren Burger, was appointed a federal appellate judge of the powerful Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1983-89), and then served as the solicitor general (1989-93). [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 2:25 am
Read our posts on the Bill Cosby limitations defense here as well as the limitations defense that applied in the sex abuse allegations against Dennis Hastert. [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 9:37 am
This past April, a federal judge sentenced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, whom the judge called a “serial child molester,” to 15 months in prison while there is a long list of people serving life sentences for marijuana-related offenses. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 3:07 am
We’ve pointed out how the federal prosecutors used some financial tricks to build a case against Dennis Hastert, in a similar strategy, since the sex crime allegations had long passed their statutes of limitations. [read post]
23 May 2016, 9:01 pm
Or, of course, they could just prey on little boys like Jerry Sandusky and Dennis Hastert, both of whom used all-male locker-rooms as their hunting grounds. [read post]
