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78 entries in 'Criminal Law Articles' |
2024/01/12
The top UN court is set to hear South Africa’s allegation of Israeli genocide in Gaza
2024/01/05
Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
2023/09/12
McCarthy juggles a government shutdown and a Biden impeachment inquiry
2023/08/17
McCarthy floats stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown
2023/06/03
Biden and GOP rush to finalize debt ceiling deal, shore up support to prevent default
2023/05/12
‘Rust’ movie medic gets $1.15 million partial settlement
2022/11/11
Montana vote adds to win streak for abortion rights backers
2022/11/07
Jackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion
2022/10/20
Ohio governor’s race split by pandemic, abortion, gun rights
2022/09/06
Kenya’s Supreme Court upholds Ruto’s narrow presidential win
2022/06/13
Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation member
2022/02/28
Man convicted of fraudulently seeking $13M in COVID-19 loans
2021/06/30
Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned by court
2021/05/14
Judge: Pretrial release OK for man accused in Capitol riot
2021/05/10
Court rules against state in emergency room boarding case
2020/10/15
Barrett bats away tough Democratic confirmation probing
2020/09/26
The Latest: Trump says he won't meet with Judge Lagoa
2020/08/06
‘See you in court’: ACLU files nearly 400 cases versus Trump
2020/06/23
Ohio to U.S. Supreme Court: Keep signature rules in place
2019/10/19
The Latest: EU Parliament to be flexible on ratifying Brexit
2019/07/10
US appeals court sides with Trump in lawsuit involving hotel
2019/05/20
Brazil's supreme court votes to make homophobia a crime
2019/03/20
Court hearing delayed for Loughlin, husband in college scam
2019/03/08
N Carolina court: State retirees should pay health premiums
2019/01/17
Supreme Court returns to gun rights for 1st time in 9 years'
2019/01/13
California fight on Trump birth control rules goes to court
2018/12/25
Cancer the latest health woe for resilient Justice Ginsburg
2018/11/01
S. Korea court upholds conscientious objection to military
2018/10/08
Kavanaugh to attend White House event, as elections loom
2018/08/24
In Veterans Court, former service members fight new battle
2018/08/01
Iowa woman promoted to nation's lone all-male Supreme Court
2018/05/11
Court: Montana minimizes impact of mining near Yellowstone
2018/04/02
Supreme Court rejects appeal from Middle East attack victims
2018/03/11
TransCanada doesn't have to pay landowner attorneys
2018/02/16
GOP to take new congressional map to court
2018/01/13
Court: Yes, there is doctor-patient confidentiality
2017/11/17
Belgian court pushes back extradition hearing for 5 Catalans
2017/09/28
Abortion clinic seeks to sue Ohio over budget restrictions
2017/09/03
Indiana high court hearing appeal in children's fire deaths
2017/08/09
German court orders sentence enforced in Chile abuse case
2017/06/06
Alabama asks US Supreme Court to let execution proceed
2017/06/01
Trump admin asks Supreme Court to restore travel ban
2017/05/02
Indiana high court to take up police unreasonable force case
2017/04/11
Court: Banned Dartmouth fraternity can't live in house
2017/04/06
New Ohio lethal injection process rejected by appeals court
2017/04/02
Arkansas asks court to block order on execution drugs
2017/01/22
Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case
2016/12/03
UK Supreme Court hears landmark challenge to Brexit plans
2016/11/16
Nevada high court considering email public records question
2016/10/10
Hawaii Supreme Court affirms Maui solar telescope permit
2016/09/13
LA Supreme Court considers teen robber’s 99-year sentence
2016/03/11
Man accused of terrorism charge with fiancee pleads guilty
2016/02/08
Court rejects AG Kane's request to reinstate law license
2016/02/07
Plagued by delays, California high-speed rail heads back to court
2015/12/23
Court turns down appeal for Harvey family killer
2015/09/11
Idaho high court upholds law banning horse racing terminals
2015/09/03
Alaska Supreme Court won't block Medicaid expansion
2015/07/08
Appeals court upholds parts of Arizona ethnic studies ban
2015/06/22
Iowa court allows remote dispensing of abortion pill
2015/05/18
High court won't hear appeal over Walker campaign probe
2015/05/14
Appeals court skeptical of fairness of trader's conviction
2014/04/21
Orange County man guilty of wife's murder-for-hire
2014/04/15
SC Supreme Court hears appeal in fatal dog attack
2014/03/10
3 California men plead guilty in alleged pot grow
2014/03/10
Man pleads guilty to sea cucumber smuggling charge
2014/02/20
Fla. man guilty of lesser counts in music shooting
2014/02/03
Man pleads not guilty in deadly Lodi crash
2014/01/30
Teen charged in Mass. teacher killing due in court
2014/01/24
2 killed in attack at German court
2014/01/20
Italian court hears final rebuttals in Knox trial
2013/12/30
Man pleads not guilty in rape, death of Ohio girl
2013/11/25
Spanish court sentences 'Robin Hood' mayor
2007/03/10
Two former Rangers Pleads Guilty to Bank Robbery
2007/01/17
Ohio Man Sentenced for Criminal Civil Rights Charges
2007/01/12
N.Y. City Man Pleads Guilty for Human Trafficking
2006/11/13
Enron CFO Goes to Prison
2006/11/03
Victim's Boyfriend Arrested in S.C. Ditch Murders
2006/11/01
Excess of $1 Million in Cocaine Seized in N.M.
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The top UN court is set to hear South Africa’s allegation of Israeli genocide in Gaza
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2024/01/12 13:31
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A legal battle over whether Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza amounts to genocide opens Thursday at the United Nations’ top court with preliminary hearings into South Africa’s call for judges to order an immediate suspension of Israel’s military actions. Israel stringently denies the genocide allegation.
The case, that is likely to take years to resolve, strikes at the heart of Israel’s national identity as a Jewish state created in the aftermath of the Nazi genocide in the Holocaust. It also involves South Africa’s identity: Its ruling African National Congress party has long compared Israel’s policies in Gaza and the West Bank to its own history under the apartheid regime of white minority rule, which restricted most Blacks to “homelands” before ending in 1994.
Israel normally considers U.N. and international tribunals unfair and biased. But it is sending a strong legal team to the International Court of Justice to defend its military operation launched in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.
“I think they have come because they want to be exonerated and think they can successfully resist the accusation of genocide,” said Juliette McIntyre, an expert on international law at the University of South Australia.
In a statement after the case was filed, the Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry urged the court to “immediately take action to protect the Palestinian people and call on Israel, the occupying power, to halt its onslaught against the Palestinian people, in order to ensure an objective legal resolution.”
Two days of preliminary hearings at the International Court of Justice begin with lawyers for South Africa explaining to judges why the country has accused Israel of “acts and omissions” that are “genocidal in character” in the Gaza war and has called for an immediate halt to Israel’s military actions.
Thursday’s opening hearing is focused on South Africa’s request for the court to impose binding interim orders including that Israel halt its military campaign. A decision will likely take weeks.
Israel’s offensive has killed more than 23,200 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. About two-thirds of the dead are women and children, health officials say. The death toll does not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
In the Oct. 7 attack, in which Hamas overwhelmed Israel’s defenses and stormed through several communities, Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 people, mainly civilians. They abducted around 250 others, nearly half of whom have been released. |
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Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
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2024/01/05 10:38
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Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling barring him from the Colorado ballot, setting up a high-stakes showdown over whether a constitutional provision prohibiting those who “engaged in insurrection” will end his political career.
Trump appealed a 4-3 ruling in December by the Colorado Supreme Court that marked the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was used to bar a presidential contender from the ballot. The court found that Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualified him under the clause.
The provision has been used so sparingly in American history that the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on it. Wednesday’s development came a day after Trump’s legal team filed an appeal against a ruling by Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, that Trump was ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot over his role in the Capitol attack. Both the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state’s rulings are on hold until the appeals play out.
Trump’s critics have filed dozens of lawsuits seeking to disqualify him in multiple states. He lost Colorado by 13 percentage points in 2020 and does not need to win the state to gain either the Republican presidential nomination or the presidency. But the Colorado ruling has the potential to prompt courts or secretaries of state to remove him from the ballot in other, must-win states.
None had succeeded until a slim majority of Colorado’s seven justices — all appointed by Democratic governors — ruled last month against Trump. Critics warned that it was an overreach and that the court could not simply declare that the Jan. 6 attack was an “insurrection” without a judicial process.
“The Colorado Supreme Court decision would unconstitutionally disenfranchise millions of voters in Colorado and likely be used as a template to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters nationwide,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in their appeal to the nation’s highest court, noting that Maine has already followed Colorado’s lead. |
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McCarthy juggles a government shutdown and a Biden impeachment inquiry
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2023/09/12 10:07
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a man who stays in motion — enthusiastically greeting tourists at the Capitol, dashing overseas last week to the G7 summit of industrial world leaders, and raising funds back home to elect fellow Republicans to the House majority.
But beneath the whirlwind of activity is a stubborn standstill, an imbalance of power between the far-right Republicans who hoisted McCarthy to the speaker’s role yet threaten his own ability to lead the House.
It’s a political standoff that will be tested anew as the House returns this week from a long summer recess and McCarthy faces a collision course of difficult challenges — seeking to avoid a government shutdown, support Ukraine in the war and launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
“They’ve got some really heavy lifting ahead,” said the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, John Thune, of South Dakota.
McCarthy, of California, is going to “have his hands full trying to figure out how to navigate and execute,” he said.
Congress has been here before, as has McCarthy in his nearly two decades in office, but the stakes are ever higher, with Republicans powered by an increasingly hard-right faction that is refusing to allow business as usual in Washington.
With former President Donald Trump’s backing, McCarthy’s right-flank pushed him into the speaker’s office at the start of the year only after he agreed to a long list of conservative demands — including the ability to call a quick vote to “vacate the chair” and remove him from office.
That threat of an abrupt ouster hovers over McCarthy’s every move, especially now.
To start, Congress faces a deadline to fund the government by the end of the month, or risk a potentially devastating federal shutdown. There are just 11 working days for Congress to act once the House resumes Tuesday.
McCarthy and his team are pitching lawmakers on a stopgap funding bill, through Nov. 1, to keep the government running under a 30-day continuing resolution, or CR, according to a leadership aide granted anonymity to discuss the private talks.
But as McCarthy convenes lawmakers for a private huddle, even the temporary funding is expected to run into opposition from his right flank.
Facing a backlash from conservatives who want to slash government funding, McCarthy may be able to ease the way by turning to another hard-right priority, launching a Biden impeachment inquiry over the business dealings of the president’s son, Hunter Biden. |
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McCarthy floats stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown
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2023/08/17 13:52
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Congressional leaders are pitching a stopgap government funding package to avoid a federal shutdown after next month, acknowledging the House and Senate are nowhere near agreement on spending levels to keep federal operations running.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised the idea of a months-long funding package, known as a continuing resolution, to House Republicans on a members-only call Monday evening, according to those familiar with the private session and granted anonymity to discuss it.
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the two leaders had spoken about such a temporary measure. It would extend federal funding operations into December to allow more time to work on the annual spending bills.
“I thought it was a good thing that he recognized that we need a CR,” Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters on a call. “We hope that our House Republicans will realize that any funding resolution has to be bipartisan or they will risk shutting down the government,” he said.
A stopgap measure that would keep government offices running past the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year is a typical strategy while the Republican-held House and Democrat-held Senate try to iron out a long-term budget agreement. The government’s new fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, when funding approval is needed to avert closures of federal offices.
But this year, the task may prove more politically difficult. McCarthy will need to win over a large portion of his Republican colleagues to pass the stopgap bill or risk political blowback from staunch conservatives if he leaves them behind and cuts a bipartisan deal with Democrats.
Conservatives, including many from the House Freedom Caucus, are usually loathe to get behind short-term funding measures as they push for steeper spending cuts, using the threat of a shutdown as leverage. |
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Biden and GOP rush to finalize debt ceiling deal, shore up support to prevent default
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2023/06/03 12:43
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With days to spare before a potential first-ever government default, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday were finalizing a deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling while trying to wrangle enough Republican and Democratic votes to pass the measure in the coming week.
The compromise announced late Saturday includes spending cuts but risks angering some lawmakers as they take a closer look at the concessions. McCarthy and Biden were expected to put the finishing touches on the agreement in a midafternoon call once the final legislative text was drafted.
The compromise announced late Saturday includes spending cuts but risks angering some lawmakers as they take a closer look at the concessions. McCarthy and Biden were expected to put the finishing touches on the agreement in a midafternoon call once the final legislative text was drafted.
Anxious retirees and others were already making contingency plans for missed checks, with the next Social Security payments due soon. Winning enough support to pass the deal, even with buy-in from the McCarthy, R-Calif., and the White House, remained a work in progress.
McCarthy and his negotiators tried to portray the deal as delivering for Republicans though it fell well short of the sweeping spending cuts they sought. Top White House officials were phoning Democratic lawmakers to try and shore up support.
Senior administration officials, including budget director Shalanda Young, National Economic Council Deputy Director Aviva Aron-Dine and John Podesta, the White House’s senior adviser on climate, planned a virtual briefing with House Democrats in the afternoon, according to a House Democratic aide. One of Biden’s chief negotiators, presidential counselor Steve Ricchetti, was making one-on-one calls to Democrats as the administration ramped up efforts to sell the deal.
McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol on Sunday that the agreement “doesn’t get everything everybody wanted,” but that was to be expected in a divided government. A White House statement issued after announcement of the agreement in principle, reached after Biden and McCarthy spoke by phone Saturday evening, said it “prevents what could have been a catastrophic default and would have led to an economic recession, retirement accounts devastated, and millions of jobs lost.” |
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‘Rust’ movie medic gets $1.15 million partial settlement
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2023/05/12 14:31
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A New Mexico judge has approved a $1.15 million settlement between a medic who worked on the “Rust” film set and one of several defendants she accused of negligence in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal.
Court records show the partial settlement between Cherlyn Schaefer and prop master Sarah Zachry was approved during a hearing Monday. Schaefer told the judge there’s not a day that goes by when she doesn’t think about what happened, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.
In her civil complaint, Schaefer said she fought desperately in a failed attempt to save the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. She said the shock, trauma and emotional distress that followed has made it impossible for her to continue working in her field.
Prosecutors dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor and producer last month, citing new evidence and the need for more time to investigate.
State District Judge Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood had entered a default judgment against Zachry in November after the film worker failed to file responses within court deadlines.
Zachry’s current attorney, Nathan Winger, told the court Monday that her previous attorney, William Waggoner, let deadlines pass without her permission, and she intends to seek damages from him to fund her settlement with Schaefer. Waggoner disputes the claim.
Justin Rodriguez, one of several attorneys representing Schaefer, said the settlement “is a small portion of what we expect to receive in the future.” The remaining defendants include Rust Movie Productions, weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and assistant director David Halls, but not Baldwin.
Schaefer’s complaint claims Zachry and Gutierrez-Reed failed to ensure there were no live rounds in Baldwin’s weapon. An involuntary manslaughter charge remains pending against Gutierrez-Reed, but her attorneys have said they fully expect her to be exonerated. |
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Montana vote adds to win streak for abortion rights backers
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2022/11/11 14:22
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Abortion rights supporters secured another win Thursday as voters in Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have forced medical workers to intercede in the rare case of a baby born after an attempted abortion.
The result caps a string of ballot defeats, months after the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade galvanized abortion-rights voters.
Michigan, California and Vermont voted to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions, and Kentucky voters rejected an anti-abortion amendment in a tally that echoed a similar August vote in Kansas.
Abortion rights groups said the outcomes show that voters across the political spectrum support access to abortion, even after a dozen Republican-governed states legislatures adopted near-total bans in the wake of the Roe decision. Anti-abortion groups, on the other hand, say they were outspent in the state races and point out anti-abortion candidate victories.
Like voters nationwide, only about 1 in 10 voters in California, Michigan, Montana Kentucky or Vermont said abortion should generally be illegal in all cases, according to AP VoteCast.
The Montana ballot measure would have raised the prospect of criminal charges carrying up to 20 years in prison for health-care providers unless they take “all medically appropriate and reasonable actions to preserve the life” of an infant born alive, including in the rare case of a birth after an abortion.
Doctors and other opponents argued the law could keep parents of babies born with incurable diseases from spending peaceful moments with their infants if doctors were forced to attempt treatment.
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