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Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Friday, June 17, 2022

President Biden nominates Dana M. Douglas for Fifth District Court of Appeals

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President Joe Biden is nominating Judge Dana M. Douglas for the United States Fifth District Court of Appeals. If confirmed, Judge Douglas...
Friday, January 03, 2020

Delaware's first black Supreme Court justice to take oath of office Friday

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Delaware's first African-American Supreme Court justice will take her public oath of office on Friday. Former Vice Chancellor Ta...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Black voters file federal lawsuit against Mississippi prosecutor

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Four black voters and a branch of the NAACP are suing a Mississippi prosecutor, asking a federal judge to order him to stop excluding Af...
Friday, March 01, 2019

Cory Booker reintroduces The Marijuana Justice Act

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U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Co-Chair of the Congress...
Monday, December 31, 2018

African-American women to head two of Missouri's largest courts

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Judge Robin Ransom Starting in January, African-American women will lead two of the busiest courthouses in Missouri for the first t...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

After 3 plus decades in prison Mumia Abu-Jamal granted right of appeal

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A judge in Philadelphia has reinstated appeal rights to former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal — convicted of killing a city police office...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Georgia county swears in first elected black judge

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The first African-American to be elected to any countywide position in Gwinnett County, Georgia, was sworn in as a judge Thursday after...
Thursday, August 09, 2018

Wesley Bell wins primary, will be next St. Louis County Prosector

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Wesley Bell, who cast himself as a reformer committed to changing a local criminal justice system widely criticized following the 2014 k...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Oregon Supreme Court gets first African-American justice

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Adrienne Nelson made history this year, becoming the first African-American to be appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court in its 158-year ...
Friday, October 27, 2017

95-year-old black judge celebrates 50 years on federal bench

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Judge Damon J. Keith thinks back on his 50 years on the federal bench and remembers many tumultuous and significant times, including bei...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Black judge removes Mississippi flag with Confederate emblem from courtroom

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Carlos Moore made history this week when he took to the bench as the first African-American municipal judge in Clarksdale, Mississippi. ...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Camille Cosby slams the press and the DA in statement after mistrial

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Camille Cosby, the wife of Bill Cosby released a statement after a mistrial was declared in Cosby's sexual assault trial. A statemen...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

DEATH OF APPEALS COURT JUDGE SUSPICIOUS, POLICE SAY

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Police are calling the death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam suspicious because there is no clear indication of suicide or criminality. ...
Monday, February 20, 2017

10 Years in Jail and Still No Trial for Murder Suspect

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Kharon Davis has spent nearly 10 years in jail. He’s had four sets of attorneys, with two judges on the bench. His co-defendants’ case...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Dylann Roof will not use mental health to avoid death penalty

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Convicted murderer Dylann Roof will not ask jurors to take his mental health into consideration next month during the death penalty phas...
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Black people, if black lives matter then we have to stop ducking jury duty.

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If we are really tired of police officers always being acquitted by juries after killing unarmed black men then we as black people hav...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Loretta Lynch comments on Terence Crutcher, Keith Lamont Scott shootings

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A the International Bar Association’s 2016 Annual Conference on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch commented on the police...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Complaint filed seeking to disbar Marilyn Mosby

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I believe that Mosby shouldn't be disbarred or that she should step down. I do believe that the 3 cases so far were not handled we...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

No indictment in Sandra Bland case

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A grand jury has decided not to indict anyone in the case of Sandra Bland, whose death in police custody raised questions of excessive f...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Jury deadlocked in William Porter's trial in Freddie Gray case

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From WMAR (Baltimore) 4 PM Eastern time 12/15/15. The jury in the trial of Officer William Porter sent a note to Judge Barry Williams ...