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By Staff and wire reports | June 27, 2017
The late Justice Parker McDonald wrote a seminal decision barring racial discrimination in jury selection in 1984.
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By R. Robin McDonald | June 27, 2017
The 2012 demand letter that Marietta attorney David Cohen sent to Waffle House Chairman and former CEO Joe Rogers Jr. in 2012 on behalf of Rogers' longtime housekeeper, Mye Brindle, was harsh. At issue before the state Supreme Court on Monday was whether Cohen committed a crime.
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By Rebecca Baker | June 26, 2017
The Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office has reversed its stance and will not appeal a judge's decision to vacate a death sentence for Ronell Wilson, who was convicted of murdering two police officers.
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By Jason Grant | June 26, 2017
Christina Swarns, a capital defense lawyer and litigation director for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has been chosen to lead the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York.
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 26, 2017
Accusatory Instrument Found Jurisdictionally Defective, Judgment of Conviction Reversed
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By Samantha Joseph | June 23, 2017
A state appellate court found Judge William Roby should have recused himself from a hearing in which he imposed criminal contempt order against a foreclosure attorney.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Separate search warrant was not required to conduct DNA analysis for identification purposes where individual did not have protectable privacy interest in identification. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Sentence did not violate constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment where it was not grossly disproportionate to convicted crimes, nor would it inhibit defendant's access to allegedly necessary mental health treatment. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Appellate counsel's concession that the evidence was sufficient to establish a killing with malice constituted a strategic concession and was not ineffective assistance of counsel. Order of the PCRA court affirmed.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Prior inconsistent recorded statement about defendant's intoxication was properly admitted, under the trial court's discretion, to impeach a witness, where the jury as factfinder could determine whether the recorded statement was inconsistent with the witness' trial testimony and weigh the witness' testimony and credibility accordingly. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
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