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‘Search Warrants Rot Law Enforcement’: Paper

The Crime Report

“When police rammed the door of Breonna Taylor’s home and shot her six times in a hail of thirty-two bullets, they lacked legal justification for being there,” Blanche Cook, the paper’s author, details. All of this can be traced back to the Supreme Court’s legal doctrine that created the conditions for this botched search warrant execution.

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Amid overdose crisis, court will weigh physician intent in “pill mill” prosecutions and more under the Controlled Substances Act

SCOTUSBlog

One of those exceptions is for physicians who operate under the statute’s registration scheme; registered doctors may prescribe controlled substances in accordance with rules promulgated by the attorney general.

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Detailed Analysis of POCSO Act, 2012

LexForti

This Legislation operates on the basic premise of “guilty until proven innocent” , instead of the ubiquitous principle of “innocent until proven guilty,” and therefore to prevent the misuse of legal system, we have safeguards in place made for prevention of filing of fictitious allegations or misleading evidence with the purpose to cause harm.

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“Without any Doubt, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Beyond any Doubt”: Tribe Declares Trump Committed Attempted Murder

JonathanTurley

There is also no compelling legal basis for the claim. After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Tribe further predicted that Attorney General Merrick Garland would criminally charge Donald Trump. Those are plenty to start with.”.

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Last-chance Hearing: Jan. 6 Committee Has Yet To Establish A Criminal Case Against Trump

JonathanTurley

There were discussions of appointing Trump attorney Sidney Powell as a special counsel , seizing voting machines or replacing the Justice Department’s leadership. It is the type of evidence used to show mens rea — “guilty mind.” As unnerving as these proposals were, they also were not carried out.

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A Case of Hope Over Experience: The J6 Referral Falls Short of a Credible Criminal Case

JonathanTurley

There is justifiable anger over these accounts but this hearing was billed as presenting the case for criminal charged. Of course, to raise obvious legal barriers to prosecution today is to invite an Internet flash mob accusing you for being an insurrectionist or fellow traveler. It missed that mark by a considerable measure.