Retro Gamer

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“How should we, as a society, seek to enact justice? What is the appropriate balance between rehabilitation and punishment? Is capital punishment ever appropriate? These issues affect my client, the so-called ‘Wicked’ Wainwright.” “Your honour, my cl

NPR

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Officials said 1,012 parents and children separated at the border have already been reunited. But up to 463 parents may have been deported or have voluntarily left without their children.

Los Angeles Times

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WASHINGTON — Federal courts need to do much better at enforcing conflict-of-interest laws that are supposed to prevent judges from deciding cases in which they hold stock, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in his year-end report on the judiciary

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES _ A judge Friday denied Roman Polanski's his latest request to unseal testimony given by the original prosecutor in the filmmaker's 40-year-old statutory rape case. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon also refused to reso

NPR

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There's a portrait of a mystery man hanging in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He may have been a judge between 1780 and 1820. Maybe. Officials are appealing to the public for any insights.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Stewart Detention Center, in rural Georgia, rejects more than 90% of applicants. Marty Rosenbluth helps migrants here apply for asylum.

Saturday Star

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TERMED the people’s judge by his colleagues and friends, Judge Siraj Desai will leave behind big shoes to fill. Not only did he serve with a passion for the law but also with compassion for the people, said director of De Klerk Van Gend attorneys Igs

NPR

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A judicial panel says Kenton County Judge Dawn Gentry coerced colleagues to support her election campaign, made inappropriate advances toward an attorney, and had sex in a courthouse office.

Fast Bikes

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Q I had a pretty nasty accident involving fractures to my hip and one leg. I went with a local independent firm, but I cannot help feeling they are being weak with my case, and here is why. I worked as a security guard at a high security and high pre

Weekend Argus Saturday

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TERMED the people’s judge by his colleagues and friends, Judge Siraj Desai will leave behind big shoes to fill. Not only did he serve with a passion for the law but also with compassion for the people, said director of De Klerk Van Gend attorneys Igs

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO — A Cook County judge this week was caught on a YouTube livestream mocking an attorney who had appeared before him for arguments earlier in the day. “Can you imagine waking up next to her every day? Oh, my God,” Judge William Raines said of a

Newsweek International

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Just because the number of Justices on the Supreme Court has held at nine for the past 151 years doesn’t mean it’s always been this way. For the first 80 years of the Republic, the number of judges on the nation’s highest court actually fluctuated up

North & South

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Upstart Press — $39.99 How often do judges make a confession? And a voluntary one at that. Rosemary Riddell’s memoir of her years overseeing proceedings in the District Court is a rare deviation from an historical tradition of judicial discretion. It

Racecar Engineering

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Gary Crotty, NASCAR executive vice president and chief legal counsel, has been elected by the FIA General Assembly as one of 36 judges to serve on the FIA Courts. A member of NASCAR’s board of directors, Crotty is the first NASCAR representative to s

Sunday Independent

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All eyes will be on Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo tomorrow on what decision he will make against former president Jacob Zuma for staging a dramatic walkout at the commission of inquiry. Following Zondo’s decision to reject Zuma’s application for

Shooting Times & Country

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A hunt saboteur has been given a suspended sentence after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice. David Graham was charged with the offence after he submitted a video that he claimed showed him being assaulted by a supporter of the At

TechLife News

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IBM owes Indiana $78 million in damages stemming from the company’s failed effort to automate much of the state’s welfare services, a judge has ruled in a long-running dispute. Marion Superior Court Judge Heather Welch issued the ruling dated Friday

Sunday Independent

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WESTERN Cape High Court Judge Siraj Desai lowered his gavel for the last time when court adjourned on Friday. Desai said growing up in Salt River in the 1950s, he never would have dreamt of ever being on the Bench of any court. “January, I will be 70

Pretoria News Weekend

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TWO judges, in separate cases, in no uncertain terms voiced their displeasure at the conduct they were shown as judicial officers by parties involved in cases before them. Both a “rude” lawyer and an “obstructive” soon-to-be divorcee received more th

TIME

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I’M A JUDGE ON THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION side of immigration. I don’t do asylum cases. I don’t do deportations. Those are the civil side. I only know what I see. In 2003, I was told by officials that only 3% of those who were caught coming into the c

Sunday Tribune

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ALL EYES will be on Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo tomorrow, espcially his decision against former president Jacob Zuma for staging a dramatic walkout at the commission of inquiry. Following Judge Zondo’s decision to reject Zuma’s application to

Post South Africa

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A CHATSWORTH family are questioning the justice system after their mother’s killer was granted bail after serving just three months of his 15-year sentence. Following an argument in August 2017, Salma and Afzal Sheik were run over multiple times by t

The Christian Science Monitor

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Immigration court judges have a bench-side view of the stresses already placed on the system. The Monitor's Texas bureau chief interviewed former and current judges about the effects of the Trump administration's changes.

Los Angeles Times

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A Texas appeals court has just punched a hole in the emerging trend of judges ordering hospitals to treat COVID patients with the drug ivermectin. "Judges are not doctors," Appellate Judge Bonnie Sudderth wrote in a unanimous three-judge decision iss

NPR

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A federal judge in New York has set Nov. 5 as the start date of the first potential trial of the six lawsuits over the 2020 census citizenship question that dozens of states and cities want removed.

Post Magazine

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Threatening letters have been sent to two more judges who jailed anti-government protesters, after two similar cases occurred in the past two weeks. Additionally, the judge who jailed the youngest person under the national security law said after sen

NPR

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The attorney general orders an end to a legal procedure used by judges to delay decisions in certain immigration cases, which he says has no legal basis. Critics say the move will impede due process.

Chat

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It took the jury only two hours to convict Tony Villegas of first-degree murder. Jailing him for life, Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey R Levenson said, ‘Mr Villegas, by your conduct, you’ve not only affected yourself but you’ve affected the lives of ma

Shooting Times & Country

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Anti-shooting group Wild Justice has been dealt a fresh financial blow after a judge ordered it to pay legal costs to Natural Resources Wales. The campaign group, led by TV presenter Chris Packham, had hoped to disrupt shooting and gamekeeping by for

The Christian Science Monitor

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How a social worker in New Orleans helps students who face legal issues – and trains teachers to get involved, too.