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Judge's defense in official oppression charge is weak
19 hours ago ago from South Texas Chisme
Here's what Don Jackson's defense sounds like to me. The 60 year old judge, hearing the 27 year old woman's DWI case, thought she was flirting with him and wanted him to proposition her. Sure. That's what was happening. Even if it did happen that way, sure pigs fly, it's out of bounds for a judge to be with a person whose case is before his court. Prosecutors on Monday said Harris County Court-at-Law Judge Donald Jackson wove a web of lies ...
Related contentJonathan Sumption QC says Binyam Mohamed judges were irresponsible
14 hours ago ago from Charon QC
Jonathan Sumption QC, no longer a candidate for selection over the heads of Court of Appeal judges in the race for the new Supreme Court Justice appointment, told the Court of Appeal that the judges’ stance in the Binyam Mohamed redaction case' was “in many respects unnecessary and profoundly damaging to the interests of this country”. Not content with this The Times noted Sumption went on to say “I would go so far as to say their views were ...
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11 hours ago ago from The Briefcase
Although there are only a handful of cases dismissed each year for speedy trial violations, few things so occupy the minds of judges as the possibility of such an event befalling them. The suggestion that all publicity is good publicity is of little comfort to the judge who goes out to fetch his morning paper and finds his name prominently mentioned in the story above the fold about how Slasher McGee is now a free man, his 43 rape charges ...
Related contentCourt: Commision Can Admonish Judge, But Needs New Hearing
7 hours ago ago from Politics on the Hudson
The state Court of Appeals ruled today that a Kingston City Court judge can be admonished for failing to render timely decisions, but also found that he deserves a new hearing on the charges. The ruling comes after Judge James Gilpatric, who was elected as a Supreme Court justice last month, was charged in August 2008 by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct with misconduct for failing to promptly decide 47 cases from July 2004 ...
Related contentA,B and C Case V Ireland
14 hours ago ago from Pat Buckley - European Life Network
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Wednesday heard a case against Ireland brought by two Irish women and a Lithuanian woman, known "A, B and C v. Ireland". All three women, resident in Ireland travelled to the UK for abortions and claim that lack of availability of abortion in Ireland resulted in medical complications, expense and "trauma" for each of them. The women are being supported in the case by the Irish Family ...
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Supreme Court Takes Texting Case
23 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether a police department violated the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it inspected personal text messages sent and received on a government pager. Related Times Topics: U.S. Supreme Court The case opens a new frontier in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, according to a three-judge panel of an appeals court that ruled in favor of the employee, a ...
Related contentJailing of judge provokes debate in Venezuela
15 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Jailing of judge provokes debate in Venezuela CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A Venezuelan judge is in jail on charges of corruption and abuse of power for freeing a high-profile banker, and an angry President Hugo Chavez has demanded she be kept in a cell for the maximum sentence - 30 years. The president's condemnation of the judge as a "criminal" has drawn rebukes from his political opponents and also from some legal experts, who say the case ...
Related contentSupreme Court will decide whether employees' text messages are private
18 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
The Supreme Court will decide whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy for the text messages they send on devices owned by their employers. The case the court accepted Monday involves public employees, but a broadly written decision could hold a blueprint for private-workplace rules in a world in which communication via computers, e-mail and text messages plays a very large role. A federal appeals court in California ...
Related contentCourt: 'Faith-based' substance abuse programs unconstitutional
5 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
TALLAHASSEE - An appeals court has found that Florida's use of "faith-based" substance abuse programs for inmates released from prison violates the state Constitution. In an opinion filed today, a three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal reversed a circuit court judge's finding that the state's contract with Prisoners of Christ and Lamb of God Ministries was constitutional. The appeals court found that the contract violates the ...
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