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Chauvin’s Fate Now in the Hands of a Jury - Los Angeles Sentinel
The fate of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with the murder of George Floyd, now rests in the hands of a jury. The much-anticipated final day of the Chauvin murder trial was a long, drawn-out battle of opposing theories as to what caused Floyd’s death on May
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Cigarette ban: Hope for smokers as FITA launch court appeal
Tobacco industry giants FITA will fight back against the government, as the cigarette ban now heads to one of the highest courts in the land.
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Barbados exploring judge alone trials
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nov 2, CMC – Barbados is exploring the possibility of implementing judge alone trials and is awaiting further dialogue on the issue with members of the judiciary and the Bar Association, Attorney General and...
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Derek Chauvin's Defense Attorney Argues Jury Maybe Influenced by Daunte Wright Shooting, Judge Unconvinced: 'This is a Totally Different Case'
The judge in Derek Chauvin's murder trial has denied defense attorney Eric Nelson's request to sequester the jury after the weekend shooting death of a […]
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal.[1] The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion
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Bill Cosby Urges Black Press To 'Push Forward' | The Savannah Tribune
The Penns ylvania Supreme Court’s ruling to vacate Bill Cosby’s conviction is not only about vindication for the comedian. For Cosby, it is now about helping other Black men who were falsely accused. He told the Black Press in an exclusive telephone conversation just hours after his release from
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Ex-cop Guilty of Murder and Manslaughter in Floyd Case - Los Angeles Sentinel
The jury reached a verdict Tuesday at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, the Black man who was pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck in a case that set off a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the
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Minneapolis will pay $27 million to George Floyd's family in civil lawsuit - Face2Face Africa
The family of George Floyd, the African-American man who was slain by police on a street in Minneapolis in May 2020, will now be paid $27 million in compensation by the city after a civil lawsuit was settled on Friday, March 12. The settlement is different from the criminal proceedings that are
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Nebraska man who fatally shot BLM protester commits suicide after indictment - Face2Face Africa
Jake Gardner, the White Nebraska bar owner who fatally shot Black Lives Matter protester, James Scurlock, outside his establishment on May 30 during an altercation has committed suicide days after he was indicted on a manslaughter charge by a grand jury. In a statement released by the Hillsboro
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Florida courts get approval to lift mask, social-distancing rules
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The chief justice of Florida's Supreme Court says the state's justice system will soon be allowed to resume in-person court proceedings ...
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Derek Chauvin Convicted of Murdering George Floyd
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin listens as the verdict is read in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd at the Hennepin ...
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Judge OKs Delayed Release Of Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recordings
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has until Friday to release the sought-after records.
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Cop freed of murder in retrial
Police Corporal Vince Edwards was on Wednesday found not guilty of the 2009 killing of Tyrone Powell in a judge-alone murder retrial in the Home Circuit Court. The policeman was arrested and charged with murder following an incident in Cooreville...
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Man Who Killed 22-Year-Old James Scurlock During Protest Gets Indicted By Grand Jury - Blavity
Jake Gardner may have sealed his own fate in the murder of James Scurlock.
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Bouaké bombing: Paris court hands down life sentences to defendants in absentia | Africanews
President of the Paris Assize Court, Thierry Fusina said all three ‘’deviously attacked French soldiers who were members of a peacekeeping force, with a definite premeditation.''
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Man charged with killing woman in front of their child pleads not guilty to murder - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… always concerned when we have African American clients that we live in … get a jury of an African American's peers. That issue … always concerned when we have African American clients that we live in … get a jury of an African American's peers. That …
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Kenya: EACC Lauds Judiciary As Ally in Graft Fight
[Nation] The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has lauded the Judiciary for key rulings and judgments that it says have boosted the war against graft.
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R. Kelly’s lawyers request to leave defense team before sex trafficking trial begins
By: Teddy Grant Two defense lawyers representing R. Kelly asked a federal judge to remove them from his legal team on Wednesday ahead of his August sex trafficking trial in New York. “Our reasons for withdrawal are significant and it is impossible, in our belief, for us to be able to continue to
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DPP counters claim in police-involved father, son killing
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Feds Decline Charges Against Officers in Tamir Rice Case - Black Voice News
Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker | Associated Press The Justice Department says it will not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video of the shooting was of too poor a quality for prosecutors to
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Trump company, executive indicted in tax prob
Donald Trump’s company and his longtime finance chief have been indicted on charges stemming from a New York investigation into... View Article The post Trump company, executive indicted in tax prob appeared first on TheGrio.
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Farmer acquitted of rape of 13-year-old - Stabroek News
Thirty-five-year-old farmer Eric Scotland was yesterday afternoon acquitted on charges which alleged that he had raped a 13-year-old girl back in  2016. The article Farmer acquitted of rape of 13-year-old appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Curtis Flowers Sues The DA Who Put Him On Trial 6 Times
The Mississippi man, who was freed in 2019 after nearly 23 years in prison, sues the district attorney who prosecuted him six times in the killings of four people at a small-town furniture store.
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Judge to weigh bond for father, son in Ahmaud Arbery slaying - TheGrio
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge is scheduled to consider bond requests by a father and son jailed on... View Article The post Judge to weigh bond for father, son in Ahmaud Arbery slaying appeared first on TheGrio.
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Derek Chauvin Trial Tests the Scales of Justice | Atlanta Daily World
The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, accused of committing first-, second- and third-degree murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who repeatedly told Chauvin and other officers he was in distress and could not breathe. On Monday, jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial
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Sean Luke trial: Defence points fingers at state witness - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
CLOSING addresses have begun in the Sean Luke murder trial with attorneys for one of the men charged with the boy’s brutal murder in 2006, urging the judge, who is also the jury in the case, to be “cold and clinical” in her deliberations. Akeel Mitchell and Richard Chatoo are before Justice Li
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Kentucky Judge Orders Transcripts Released from Breonna Taylor Grand Jury | Dallas Weekly
Releasing the recording instead of the transcript might not satisfy Taylor’s family or a grand jury member who filed legal claims demanding the release of recordings, transcripts, and the judge to make a binding declaration that the panel has a right to disclose information about the process.
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Forty-nine-year-old Wazir Potter now awaits sentencing after being found guilty yesterday afternoon of raping a 12-year-old boy. The article Man, 49, found guilty of raping boy, 12 appeared first on Stabroek News.
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The ‘Derek Chauvin Trial’? Reminding Mainstream Media George Floyd Is Not Accused Of Murder
TMZ and the Wall Street Journal were the latest mainstream media outlets being reminded that references to the "George Floyd Trial" are inaccurate and give accused murderer Derek Chauvin a pass.
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Cook Alexis Turpin and her lover Stephon Barlow are now likely to face a fresh trial over the 2016 murder of Turpin’s partner, Sherwin Johnson after a jury was unable to arrive at a verdict. The article Hung jury in murder case against cook, lover appeared first on Stabroek News.
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