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SCOTUS dispatch: government lawyer grilled for an hour on meaning of federal corruption statute

JURIST

Sinzdak refused to accept that narrower construction. It is truly—as a former government lawyer—baffling how someone say that [the definition of corruptly] was not contested, that this [gratuity] was wrongful. “Corruptly” as a consciousness of wrongdoing has never been the mens rea for bribery.

Statute 129
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Detailed Analysis of POCSO Act, 2012

LexForti

This was done with the objective of constructively combating such activities. Lawyers often fight for postponements due to extraneous factors, and if the sufferer is summoned to trial again six to seven months following the event, their memory of the particular specifics of the incident may get blurred as a result of the postponement.

Statute 52