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By Colleen Murphy | December 7, 2023
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By Christopher Dunn | December 6, 2023
In the quiet of the Thanksgiving week, the New York Court of Appeals delivered a blockbuster batch of decisions that herald a new day for constitutional claims presented by criminal defendants in New York. The 12 decisions released on Nov. 21 are the first significant group of rulings in criminal cases from the newly constituted Court of Appeals and signal a dramatic realignment of the court's seven judges.
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By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press | December 6, 2023
Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels told reporters Tuesday that the sum represents $1 million for every year Leonard Cure spent imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction. He was killed just three years after Florida authorities set him free.
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By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | December 6, 2023
The lawsuit filed Monday says the officer's body camera video shows the tow truck driver straddling Johnny Hollman Sr. during the tussle Aug. 10, "appearing to sit with his full body weight" on Hollman's head and neck.
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By Colleen Murphy | December 5, 2023
Alexander Shalom, the senior supervising attorney and director of Supreme Court advocacy at the American Civil Liberties Union's New Jersey chapter, argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court for the 100th time last week.
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By ALM Staff | December 4, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Rachel McKane and David Pellow | December 1, 2023
Racketeering charges typically are reserved for people accused of conspiring toward a criminal goal, such as members of organized crime networks or financiers engaged in insider trading. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is attempting to build an argument that seeking to stop construction of the police training facility—through actions that include organizing protests, occupying the construction site and vandalizing police cars and construction equipment—constitutes a "corrupt agreement" or shared criminal goal.
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By Matt Brown | The Associated Press | December 1, 2023
A record number of Black attorneys general, seven in total, are serving today. Two Black attorneys, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, have servedg as U.S. attorney general. And the vice president, Kamala Harris, was the first Black woman elected attorney general.
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By Mason Lawlor | November 30, 2023
Court found their request to replace Georgia's chosen form of government with a completely different one "strains both federalism and Section 2 to the breaking point."
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By Emily Wagster Pettus | The Associated Press | November 30, 2023
"If you get arrested in one of these counties where grand juries seldom meet, you can wind up in jail for months or even years just waiting to be indicted, and you will spend more time behind bars simply because of geographic misfortune," said Cliff Johnson, an attorney who is director of the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
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