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Trump's Justice Department Once Again Protects The Powerful At The Expense Of The Powerless - Los Angeles Sentinel
The decision not to charge the officers who shot and killed a Black child on sight encapsulates everything that is wrong with the Department of Justice under the current administration. Once again, it has protected the powerful at the expense of the powerless. Once again, it has failed to seek
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Camille Cosby Slams #MeToo Movement, Says Ruling on Husband’s Appeal Provides ‘Hopefulness’
Camille Cosby, wife of incarcerated entertainer Bill Cosby, has broken her silence and shared her thoughts on his legal victory regarding the appeal of his 2018 sexual assault
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Court Reinstates $38 Million Award In Damages to Family of Korryn Gaines, Young Black Woman Killed In 2016 By Police
A Maryland special appeals court has ruled in favor of the family of Korryn Gaines, who was shot and killed by police in 2016. Since Gaines' death, her
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Lawyers For Men Charged In Ahmaud Arbery's Death Call For Black DA Removed
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Virtual court touted as potential backlog clearer, time saver
Touting the benefits of a greater use of technology in the courts, Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck said on Friday that with the donation of audiovisual equipment worth over $80 million from the European Union, Jamaicans can look forward to saving time and money in their pursuit of
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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
Trump's justice department once again protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless - Dallas Examiner
By MARC H. MORIAL National Urban League “Anyone with decent vision can see from the parking-lot video of the shooting that the claim that Loehmann was able to repeatedly warn Tamir warrants
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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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Morris, Robert, Sr. (1823–1882)
Robert Morris became one of the first black lawyers in United States after being admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1847. Morris was born in Salem, Massachusetts on June 8, 1823.   At an early age, Morris had some formal education at Master Dodge’s School in Salem.  With the agreement of his
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Soldiers accused of assaulting two Trench Town men
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’83 Killing
Victim Believed Beaten, Robbed and Strangled TULSA—The death of a murder suspect has frustrated prosecutors’ efforts to solve a cold case. The big break in the 1983 case came from…
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Slave Sued Master
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Officers in Breonna Taylor Case Escape Indictment - Houston Forward Times
After 194 days, months of protests, and a $12 million civil settlement, the family of… The post Officers in Breonna Taylor Case Escape Indictment appeared first on Houston Forward Times.
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Woman awarded $9m for hospital negligence
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Defence gets another day in court
THE judgement by Chief Justice Bryan Sykes in the trial of six alleged members of the Westmoreland-based King Valley gang, which should have been handed down yesterday, is now set for next week.
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Breonna Taylor Case: Kentucky Governor Forces AG Daniel Cameron To Release 'Everything' From Grand Jury
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First racially mixed jury in the South.
The first petit jury that impaneled Negroes, was for the trial of Jefferson Davis.
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Black Codes enacted
Mississippi passed the so-called Black Codes that barred blacks from jury service, testifying against whites in trials, bearing arms and attending white schools.
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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
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Donald Trump’s Administration Once Again Protects The Powerful At The Expense Of The Powerless. - ThyBlackMan.com
Time and again, Black people are considered a threat just for existing, while violent white men are cossetted.
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Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Proceedings Released
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police who shot Breonna Taylor announced themselves as law enforcement before entering her apartment, according to grand jury testimony that was among hours of audio recordings released Friday. “We knocked on the door, said police, waited I don’t know 10 or 15
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Sounds About White: Darren Wilson Will Not Be Charged For Murder of Michael Brown
The fight for justice for Michael Brown has come to a devastating end after a grand jury declined to prosecute the officer responsible for his death for the murder. On Thursday (Jul 30), six years after the murder that sparked protest around the globe, a county prosecutor announced Thursday that
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Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to appear in court over perjury charge | News24
The Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions has taken a decision to prosecute Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane for perjury.
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Former Gov. Rick Snyder, Other State Officials to Face Criminal Charges in Connection to the Flint Water Crisis | Chicago Defender
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Uganda: Kazinda Jailed 15 Years for Illicit Enrichment
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Grand Juror Speaks After Judge Ruling in Breonna Taylor Case
LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) — A grand juror who won a court fight to speak publicly about the Breonna Taylor investigation took issue Tuesday with statements by Kentucky's attorney general and said the jury was not given the option to consider charges connected to Taylor's shooting death by police. The
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Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence
BOSTON, United States -A federal appeals court on yesterday tossed the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.A three-judge panel of the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase trial, finding that the judge who oversaw the case
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