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OCTOBER 22, 2021

“Eunice Lee an Active Questioner on First Day Hearing 2nd Circuit Arguments; Lee, the first former federal defender ever to serve on the influential appeals court, peppered attorneys in three appeals, foreshadowing a potentially-outsized role in addressing unsettled areas of criminal law”: Tom McParland of New York Law Journal has this (..)

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JUNE 29, 2022

The US Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that the state of Oklahoma can prosecute non-Native Americans who commit crimes against Native Americans on tribal territory. Castro-Huerta appealed the ruling to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, which vacated his conviction as a result of McGirt.

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MAY 7, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether defendants have standing to assert violations of an extradition treaty and whether the wire fraud statute applies extraterritorially to reach a defendant’s conduct committed only in Nigeria. United States. Guzman Loera v.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday issued a ruling reversing its prior judgement that had declared the death penalty unconstitutional. In April, the Court of Appeals original judgment in Charles Khoviwa v.

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APRIL 2, 2021

The UK Court of Appeal on Tuesday pronounced a landmark judgement expected to guide the family court’s approach towards allegations of domestic abuse. The post UK Court of Appeals pronounces family court guidelines for cases of domestic abuse and child welfare appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments in United States v. The US argued that an attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, noting that appellate courts and the act’s plain text support that understanding. That’s not how Congress writes laws, and that’s not how we interpret them.”

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to seven years in prison for violating a marriage law when they wed in 2018, officials and a lawyer for the couple said. The post Pakistan court convicts former PM Khan and wife of unlawful marriage appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JUNE 26, 2021

The UK Supreme Court delivered a judgement on Friday which overturned the convictions of four defendants who blockaded an East London arms fair. The protestors thus appealed to the Supreme Court.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Egypt’s Supreme State Security Criminal Court Saturday sentenced to death 10 Muslim Brotherhood members who were “convicted of forming armed terrorist groups to carry out hostile operations against police facilities and personnel.” The court will convene to confirm the sentences in June.

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APRIL 21, 2021

Gary , it was that the justices are struggling to draw boundaries around the circumstances in which federal criminal defendants are entitled to a new proceeding in the district court after the court of appeals has found “plain error” in the trial or plea hearing. After the decision in Rehaif, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reinstated a Florida man’s conviction on Thursday, following a challenge that the police department violated the man’s Miranda rights. Jimmie Bowen was arrested for his alleged involvement in gang related violence. Instead, its protections apply only in custodial interrogation.”

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that outlawed abortions based on certain reasons, such as a prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome or the race or gender of the fetus. The court also blocked the state’s six-week abortion ban. It is, in fact, just the opposite.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Georgia will take the justices back to law-school basics – the case could be a question on a law-school examination in criminal law. The state courts responded by characterizing the inconsistent verdicts as “repugnant,” vacating both verdicts, and authorizing a second trial on all counts. The facts are simple.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The District Court of The Hague Thursday sentenced three defendents to life imprisonment in the Flight MH17 criminal case. The court further granted 306 claims for damages, awarding more than €16 million in damages to parties affected by the incident.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The United States Supreme Court Monday denied the appeal of Ramin Khorrami, an Arizona man who was convicted of fraud before an eight-member jury. This deviation from the standard 12-person jury was permitted by the 1970 US Supreme Court ruling in Williams v. Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh dissented to the court’s denial.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Italy’s Constitutional Court rejected a request Tuesday to conduct a national referendum on modifying the criminal law to allow patients suffering from incurable illnesses or unbearable pain to exercise their right to die. However, no such law has been passed.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

The Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down the parameters to be considered by High Courts while considering the bail plea of an accused. These parameters were laid down in a case where the High Court wrongly granted bail to the accused. The top court laid down guidelines which are stated as follows-.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The Seoul High Court rendered a decision on Thursday that ordered the Japanese government to compensate each of the former “comfort women” who initially brought a lawsuit in the Seoul Central District Court in 2016, according to South Korean news source KBS. The situation may happen again in the present case.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

The question came through the courts as part of a case trying a Tennessee man convicted of driving after being declared a “motor vehicle habitual offender,” under a law that was later repealed and replaced criminal charges with civil procedures.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard an oral arguments for Vega v. The case will determine whether a person can seek civil relief when an officer fails to provide them with their Miranda rights, legal protections for potential criminal defendants against self-incrimination. United States gave Miranda v. What remedy does he have?”.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has decriminalized abortion up to 24 weeks, continuing a trend that has been spreading across traditionally conservative Catholic Latin American countries. The court had considered two cases over the past several months. The court took up the Causa Justa case first.

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JUNE 30, 2022

The US Supreme Court Thursday declined to consider whether jail officials who “respond unreasonably” to “obvious risk” are protected by qualified immunity. However, Cogdill and Jesse Laws, the jailer on duty, placed Monroe in a cell alone with a 30-inch cord. Monroe attempted to commit suicide.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Barristers practicing criminal law in the UK have voted to strike “indefinitely” in a ballot action, the Criminal Bar Association announced Monday. The walkout will start on Monday, September 5, meaning virtually all criminal court cases in England and Wales will be unable to proceed.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The US Supreme Court Wednesday granted a request by death row inmate John Cruz for post conviction relief from his 2005 death sentence. In an opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the court ruled that the Arizona Supreme Court incorrectly held that the 2016 case Lynch v. South Carolina “did not apply” in Arizona.

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AUGUST 28, 2021

The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in Germany Thursday sentenced two Syrian nationals on war crime and terrorism-related charges. The officer was a protected person under international humanitarian law. The court had also heard as a witness Khedr A.K.’s His co-defendant, Sami A.S.,

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APRIL 4, 2023

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear David Brown v. Louisiana , a case which concerns evidence rules in criminal trials. The man who petitioned the court to hear the case remains on death row, where he has been since his 2011 criminal conviction. The case centers on how far the precedent decided in Brady v.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The US Supreme Court Tuesday declined to block the execution of Missouri inmate Leonard Taylor despite new evidence potentially proving a wrongful conviction. Last month, Taylor’s attorney filed a request under Missouri law for a hearing to consider new evidence which could prove a wrongful conviction.

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APRIL 25, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to two cases, Reed v. In Reed , petitioner Rodney Reed asked the court to decide when “the statute of limitations begins to run for an action under 42 U.S.C. Mallory appealed to the Supreme Court for review. Goertz and Mallory v.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The UK Supreme Court Wednesday held that a person under criminal investigation has a “reasonable expectation of privacy” with regard to information about that investigation prior to being charged. This judgment is anticipated to have a great impact on journalism. ’s actions in a foreign country.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will review a conviction of several climate activists for protesting on Swiss bank Credit Suisse’s grounds. While the activists were initially acquitted in January 2020 , the Swiss appeal court reversed that decision. The case was seen as an important precedent for climate protestors.

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APRIL 20, 2022

The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard opening arguments for two cases concerning legal errors and whether courts can, and should, correct them. United States , the Court is considering the interpretation of criminal law and federal civil procedure rules. In George v. The petitioner in George v. In Kemp v.

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JULY 7, 2021

The UK’s Court of Appeal on Monday quashed the convictions of three black men who were arrested for robbery in the late 1970s, where the court relied on the testimony of a knowingly corrupt police officer.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Baerbock delivered the remarks in a speech titled “Strengthening International Law in times of crisis” at the Hague Academy of International Law. Making her case for the tribunal, Baerbock said loopholes in international criminal law allowed Russia to escape the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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MAY 8, 2022

The Singapore High Court Thursday convicted Malaysian businessman and woman, John Soh Chee wen and Quah Su-Ling for market manipulation and cheating offences that led to the 2013 penny-stock crash. High Court Judge Hoo Sheau Peng has convicted Chee Wen and Su-Ling with 180 and 169 charges respectively.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

EDT, the American Bar Association will host a webinar reviewing major criminal law cases of the current term (including Van Buren v. Hastings Law, will feature Juval Scott, the federal public defender for the western district of Virginia; Ismail Ramsey of Ramsey & Ehrlich; and Chief Judge John Tunheim of the district of Minnesota.

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JULY 18, 2021

The Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales on Friday permitted an Iranian-American businessman to sue Dechert LLP for hacking into his email account and leaking his personal information on BitTorrent sites. million in compensation to the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority ( RAKIA) by the trial court in May 2020.

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MARCH 23, 2022

Russian state-owned news agency TASS Tuesday reported that a court found dissident Alexey Navalny guilty of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced him to nine years in prison. Later, Kotova found Navalny guilty of contempt of court for his behavior during a prior defamation trial. We have been fighting Putin since 2011.

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