JURIST
OCTOBER 6, 2022
He also called on the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the US Attorney General to review whether marijuana should remain a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act. Currently, 19 states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana use, with Rhode Island being the most recent.
JURIST
APRIL 12, 2021
Navy Captain named Kirk Waits presided over the commission before becoming the Deputy Director of the Navy Office of the Judge Advocate General Criminal Law Division of the Department of Defense. He had applied to other positions while still in his role overseeing the commission as well.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Jessica Peck and C. Attorney Christopher B. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Alden Pelker of the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and Assistant U.S. Brown of the U.S.
JURIST
AUGUST 12, 2022
The men were sentenced in the District of Columbia. Attorney Matthew M. Now, Robertson and Fracker must serve 87 months in prison, complete 36 months supervised release and pay restitution of $2,000.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 30, 2021
Kevin Steele, the Montgomery County district attorney who convicted Cosby, issued a statement that was embarrassing in its evasion of responsibility. Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have statutes allowing for recovery for wrongful convictions and imprisonment. However, recently Gov.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2023
But even if the definition is unclear, the 5th Circuit concluded, it should be read to exclude bump stocks under the rule of lenity – a doctrine instructing courts to construe ambiguous criminal laws (Section 922(o)(1) carries a prison term of up to 10 years) in the manner most favorable to defendants. In both United States v.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Before becoming clerk of the Supreme Court, Stevas was the clerk of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and worked as an assistant U.S. He also taught criminal law and trial practice at the George Washington University School of Law. Stevas’ obituary described the two men as friends and neighbors.
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