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Lawyers want jury trial for cops in Deane case
WESTERN BUREAU: Although jury trials have been suspended in COVID-19 era courtrooms locally, lawyers representing three cops charged in connection with the 2014 death of Mario Deane in a Montego Bay lock-up have indicated that they would prefer...
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Ex-MPD officers charged in George Floyd death appear in court; Freeman removed from case -
Judge Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill disqualifed Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and three other county attorneys from the proceedings involving Floyd's death. Source
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Woman awarded $9m for hospital negligence
The Supreme Court has awarded damages of more than $9 million to a woman for negligence in the removal of her womb at the Spanish Town Hospital almost nine years
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VIDEO: Activists demand D.C. ‘Defund’ police amid peaceful protests after city renames street ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’
Washington — Thousands marched and protested against police brutality in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, keeping the May 25 death of George Floyd on the White House’s collective mind by demanding the city defund its police
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Texas Court Holds First Jury Trial Via Zoom In Insurance Feud | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Potential jurors called in from their couches, dining tables and offices Monday morning to a Texas state court insurance trial that appears to have been the first in the country to use the videoconferencing platform Zoom with jurors during the coronavirus
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Grand Jury Indicts Eight Louisiana Cops for Using Excessive Force Following Attempted Seat Belt Stop, Car Chase
Eight Louisiana police officers were indicted for using excessive force after a chase in January. A grand jury returned bills of indictment of malfeasance in []
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3 men indicted on murder charges in killing of Ahmaud Arbery | The Crusader Newspaper Group
The indictment charges Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan with malice murder, four counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit false
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Sharpton, Alfred Charles “Al” (1954- )
Born in Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 1954, Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr., is an American Baptist minister and political, social, and human rights advocate.  Known as “the Wonder Boy” as a youth, he was licensed and ordained as a Pentecostal minister and toured with the gospel singer
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3
1954
Palo Conteh is not guilty of treason – says Jury
In conclusion yesterday addressing the Jury, Dr Abdulai Conteh said this:  “Mr Foreman, members of the jury, we urge and pray that in this trial you will reject the prosecution’s case of treason against the 1st Accused for a woeful lack of evidence and on the offences under the Small Arms
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Rwanda: Evaluation of Judges on Number of Cases Tried Blamed for 'Bad' Court Verdicts
[New Times] Evaluating the performance of judges based on the number of cases they try is one of the reasons for that some verdicts are characterised by injustice, it has emerged.
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2 Brothers Change Minds, Will Cooperate in Smollett Case
CHICAGO (AP) — Two brothers who admitted helping actor Jussie Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago last year are again willing to help in the case after initially saying they were done cooperating with prosecutors, their attorney said Thursday. In yet another strange twist in
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An Off-Duty LAPD Officer Claimed Starbucks Put A Tampon In His Drink
The LA Police Protective League was also notified of this incident and released a statement in defense of the
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Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron Fights To Keep Breonna Taylor Evidence Sealed
A judge ordered the information to be released.
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Racially Motivated Slayings
Buffalo, N.Y., grand jury indicted Pvt. Joseph G. Christopher of the U.S. Army on murder charges stemming from the racially motivated slayings of three Blacks in September, 1980.
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29
1981
Williams v. Mississippi (1898)
? Submitted March 18, 1898. Decided April 25, 1898. At June term 1896 of the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, the plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury composed entirely of white men for the crime of murder. On the 15th day of June he made a motion to quash the indic
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Supreme Court rules Manhattan DA can obtain Trump taxes - The New York Beacon
WASHINGTON — Rejecting President Donald Trump’s complaints that he’s being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a New York prosecutor’s demands for the billionaire president’s tax records. But in good political news for Trump, his taxes and other financial records almost certainly
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Court overturns judges decision to wipe out $38M Korryn Gaines verdict - TheGrio
A state appeals court has ruled that a Baltimore County judge was wrong to overturn a jury verdict awarding $38 million to the family of Korryn Gaines. READ MORE: Three Baltimore men to receive $8.7 million for wrongful convictions Gaines is the 23-year-old Randallstown, Maryland woman who made
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VIDEO: Doctors grapple with tough conditions in Mumbai’s slums amid pandemic
It gets very hot in the sun,” said Dr. Palak Kaserwal, who leads a 10-member team of doctors and nurses screening COVID-19 patients in claustrophobic shanties in
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How Defunding The Police Helps To Defund Racism - Blavity
Until we get to a point where it isn’t open season on Black people, abolishing the police force will save more Black lives than an intact police
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DON’T BLAME CLUNIS - • Retired cop says commanders sometimes have to make tough calls • Police Fed says no evidence senior cop disregarded advice in deadly operation
“If Mr Clunis had gone there with one police officer and the man opened fire at them and they fired back and get the man and get the same gun you see on display, everybody would say he was a hero,” Campbell said
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Brawley, Tawana Glenda (1972– )
Tawana Brawley is an African American woman from Wappinger’s Falls, New York, who became known when she was 15 years old in 1987 for wrongly accusing four white men for brutally raping her in Dutchess
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1987
Three Men Accused Of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery Indicted By Grand Jury
A grand jury indicted Travis McMichael, 34, Gregory McMichael, 64, and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., 50, the three men arrested in the murder case of Ahmaud
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Louisville Police Officer Says Breonna Taylor Shooting Was 'Not A Race Thing' : Updates: The Fight Against Racial Injustice : NPR
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Bill Cosby Granted Appeal in Pennsylvania Sex Assault Case
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a stunning decision that could test the legal framework of #MeToo cases, comedian Bill Cosby has won the right to fight his 2018 sexual assault conviction in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The 82-year-old Cosby has been imprisoned in suburban Philadelphia for nearly two
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Ella Jones is elected first Black mayor of Ferguson, MO
Jones is also the first woman to lead the Missouri city, which erupted in protests in 2014 after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, a black
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Why George Floyd’s Life Didn’t Matter To The Healthcare System, Just Like Many Black Lives Before Him - Blavity
Floyd’s last moments on Earth are a metaphor for how America sees and treats Black
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VIDEO: Activists demand D.C. ‘Defund’ police amid peaceful protests after city renames street ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’
Washington — Thousands marched and protested against police brutality in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, keeping the May 25 death of George Floyd on the White House’s collective mind by demanding the city defund its police
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Message from Common Council to Our Police Chief
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Jamaican dancer Dr L'Antoinette Stines seeks US$150k in suit against Jay-Z, Beyonce
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican choreographer Dr L’Antoinette Stines is seeking in excess of US$150,000 in her suit against entertainment mogul Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and his pop music superstar wife
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Minneapolis City Council announces plans to dismantle police department
During a Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block rally at Powderhorn Park on Sunday, Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender announced that she and a group of her colleagues were proposing to disband the city’s police
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