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According to Alabama case law, however, a petitioner could not seek a hearing or to dissolve an order until it purged itself of contempt. Lead attorney on NAACP v. Alabama, Judge Robert L. Carter (left), with the dean of Georgetown University Law Center, William Treanor. The United States Supreme Court reversed the first contempt judgment. The ...
The attorney general (AG) also provides advisory opinions to local and state governments when questions arise about the constitutionality of proposed laws and regulations. It is the task of the attorney general to represent the state when questions arise concerning various criminal sentences including the death penalty.
After Smith’s execution, the Alabama attorney general’s office said the total number of people waiting to be put to death in the state was 165. Smith wasn’t the first person Judge Tompkins ...
The murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett were a double child murder that occurred in Ozark, Alabama, on August 1, 1999, [4] [5] in which two high school students named J.B Beasley and Tracie Hawlett—both 17—from Dothan, Alabama, disappeared after leaving their homes to celebrate Beasley's birthday on July 31, 1999.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement to NBC News in reference to the Supreme Court order that the state "remains confident that the execution, and long-awaited justice, will ...
The attorney general’s office called those concerns speculative. Alabama's prison system agreed to minor changes to settle concerns that Smith’s spiritual adviser would be unable to minister ...
Toforest Onesha Johnson (born February 8, 1973) [1] is an American man on death row for the 1995 murder of Jefferson County deputy sheriff William G. Hardy in Alabama.Johnson's case is controversial and his quest for a new trial has attracted widespread support, from prominent lawyers such as the original prosecutor in his case and Alabama's former attorney general to celebrities such as Kim ...
In 2015, when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals was reviewing Hamm's case, the court included a footnote stating that “we take this opportunity to once again strongly criticize the practice of trial courts’ uncritical wholesale adoption of the proposed orders or opinions submitted by a prevailing party.” [8] Judge Adalberto Jordan of ...