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Arbery Trial Judge Delivers Massive Blow to the Defense on the Eve of Closing Statements

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The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. The ruling could be “outcome determinative” in the case by stripping away the core defense that these men were chasing a person suspected of a series of crimes over the last year.

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Texas city council member argues retaliatory arrest

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A federal appeals court ruled that Gonzalez’s case could not go forward because she had not provided examples of others who had engaged in the same kind of conduct but had not engaged in protected speech and had not been arrested. Gonzalez filed a federal civil rights claim in Sept. In 2019, in Nieves v.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

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The lawyer who holds that job, which is sometimes known as the “political deputy,” is normally the only deputy in the solicitor general’s office who is not a career civil servant (and the only other political appointee, beyond the solicitor general, in the office). solicitor general.

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