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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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JURIST

MAY 13, 2022

The Supreme Court of Canada Friday ruled that extreme intoxication is a valid defense to criminal charges like murder and rape, overturning section 33.1 of the Criminal Code. The court upheld a lower court’s ruling in R. Brown which also found the extreme intoxication law unconstitutional.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Share In the final argument scheduled for its 2023-2024 term, the Supreme Court will hear argument on Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s historic bid for criminal immunity. The question before the justices is whether Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Paris Criminal Court acquitted François Bayrou for his alleged involvement in a fraudulent scheme that embezzled European public funds on Monday. However, the court found another eight defendants, including five former members of the European Parliament (MEPs) guilty and passed jail sentences ranging from ten to eighteen months.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 21, 2023

The Supreme Court of India overturned the conviction of a woman sentenced to life imprisonment for the alleged murder of her new born child Thursday, holding that a woman could not be compelled to reveal matters relating to her private reproductive choices. The woman contended that she miscarried.

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SCOTUSBlog

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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JURIST

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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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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The Federal Court of Malaysia on Thursday struck down a state law making LGBT sex a criminal offense. The court found that only the Parliament of Malaysia has the authority to make such actions an offense. ” Criminal Law in Malaysia comes under the Federal List law-making powers, exclusive to Parliament.

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JURIST

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. This is known as the ‘Iddah’ period and is a requirement under Islamic family law upheld by Pakistan.

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The Crime Report

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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SCOTUSBlog

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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The court on Friday released its calendar for its April 2024 argument session , which will feature nine hours of arguments over six days, beginning on April 15 and concluding on April 24. After two lower courts blocked the city from enforcing the ban, the Grants Pass asked the Supreme Court to intervene. Capitol on Jan.

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EvidenceProf Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

HEBERT LAW CENTER seeks to hire pre-tenure or tenured lateral faculty members in constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, federal courts and procedure, evidence, and professional responsibility. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, PAUL M. Applicants should have a J.D. from an ABA-accredited.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Written by Hadrien Pauchard (assistant researcher at Sciences Po Law School) In the Lafarge case (Cass. The decision addresses several key aspects of private international law in transnational criminal lawsuits and labour law.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether a federal law requiring hospitals that participate in Medicare to provide “necessary stabilizing treatment” in an emergency overrides an Idaho law that bars most abortions. Shortly after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. After a divided U.S.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas , Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. Vanesa Escobar Marcavillaca is a law student from UNSAAC and a member of CIED. She files this dispatch from Cusco.

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JURIST

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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JURIST

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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JURIST

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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday appeared skeptical of a ruling by a federal appeals court that rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim that he has absolute immunity from criminal charges based on his official acts as president. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld that ruling.

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JURIST

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. They were charged with willful obstruction of a highway without lawful authority. The protestors thus appealed to the Supreme Court.

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JURIST

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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JURIST

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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The High Court for the state of Madhya Pradesh has issued a notice to the state government on the public interest litigation (PIL) petition challenging the constitutional validity of the newly promulgated Dharma Swatantrya (Religious Freedom) Ordinance, 2020.

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JURIST

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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JURIST

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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Share The Supreme Court has already heard oral argument in one major gun-rights case this term, and on Wednesday the court will hear another. Rahimi , a challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a crime for someone who is the subject of a domestic-violence restraining order to have a gun. The full U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 10, 2024

RSF’s Director of Campaign Rebecca Vincent said in the statement that RSF’s representatives have never experienced “such blatant efforts by authorities to evade scrutiny of court proceedings in any country.” ” Vincent further claimed that the deportation represented the “dire erosion of press freedom.”

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JURIST

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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JURIST

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 6-1 on Friday that the mandatory minimum sentence for child luring is unconstitutional as it violates the right against cruel and unusual punishment under Section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom. On appeal, the Crown asked the Supreme Court to find it constitutional.

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JURIST

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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Smith’s filing came just two days after Trump asked the court to temporarily block a decision by a federal appeals court rejecting his claim of immunity, and six days before the deadline that the court had set for Smith to respond to Trump’s request. The Supreme Court declined to intervene at that point , and the D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Federal police detective Denisse Ribeiro noted in a report sent to the Supreme Court that Bolsonaro was responsible for breach of secrecy laws “with the purpose of spreading information known to be false, with damaging repercussions for the public administration.” Bolsonaro is yet to comment on these findings.

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JURIST

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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Amnesty International (AI) reported that Russia sentenced 33 Ukrainian soldiers in the Supreme Court of the Luhansk People’s Republic in Russian-occupied Luhansk on Monday for “alleged war crimes.” ” Russian authorities captured the soldiers as prisoners of war (POWs).

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