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Due Process & Criminal Defense
Fair trials, counsel rights, evidence standards, and wrongful convictions.
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Attorney directed to review inmate’s pro-se petitions
8+ hour, 2+ min ago (412+ words) Emily Ann Lopez, formerly Emily Ann Merth, shown when she was charged by Luzerne County detectives in April 2021 with extorting a lawyer. The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ordered a seasoned attorney to review numerous petitions filed by a Wilkes-Barre woman…...
Penske request for en banc hearing gets pushback from victim’s estate
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Nobody’s Client: Why Saint Lucia needs a public defender
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (373+ words) For 32 years, a man sat in a Saint Lucia prison without ever being convicted of a crime. Found unfit to plead in 1991, he should have been hospitalised, with his detention regularly reviewed. Neither happened. A second man spent 24 years in…...
Colorado Man Jailed in Botched Grand Forks Child-Luring Case Sues Police
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (410+ words) A federal lawsuit filed by Deryck Middleton alleges that errors in a Grand Forks investigation led to his arrest and felony charge despite evidence pointing to someone else. Middleton, 40, of Golden, Colorado, is suing the Grand Forks Police Department, the…...
A freed man faces life back in prison after a Supreme Court ruling on the First Step Act
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Can I delay or avoid a deposition from partner’s ex?
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (408+ words) Boston Herald Q. My partner moved in with me over the summer. He and his family are from Ohio but he works remotely. He wants to permanently relocate here but his children are too young, so he maintains a condo in…...
Audit: Minnesota public defenders shoulder high caseloads — even by 30-year-old standards
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (642+ words) ST. PAUL — Minnesota public defenders are struggling under heavy caseloads to fulfill their constitutional obligation to represent every person accused of a crime who can’t afford a lawyer, according to a report from the Office of the Legislative Auditor released…...
Extended interview: Cornell accuser's attorney speaks with Scripps News
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Case: Discrimination/Sexual Harassment (N.D. Ga.)
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (150+ words) A Georgia federal district court granted summary judgment to the Georgia Institute of Technology on a female educational outreach manager’s Title VII hostile work environment and retaliation claims, finding the harassment was not severe or pervasive, and no adverse action…...