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The Kern County child abuse cases are a notable example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria of the 1980s. [119] The cases involved claims that a pedophile sex ring performed Satanic ritual abuse: as many as 60 young children testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years imprisoned. 34 convictions were ...
US Governor of Dakota Territory: Dakota Territory 1884: Bribery [49] Republican: Bertram L. Podell: House of Representatives: New York 1974: Federal official conflict-of-interest and conspiracy to defraud the United States [50] Democrat: Halsted Ritter: District Judge: Florida 1936: Bribery [51] Republican: Dan Rostenkowski: House of ...
Constitutional law of the United States; Overview; Articles; Amendments; History; Judicial review; Principles; Separation of powers; Individual rights; Rule of law
While several early cases employed the "intangible right to honest government," United States v. States (8th Cir. 1973) [9] was the first case to rely on honest services fraud as the sole basis for a conviction. [10] The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s. [11 ...
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The federal case against Eric Adams has gone through a roller coaster of events since he became the first sitting New York City mayor to be indicted in September 2024. ... assistant US Attorney ...
This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent.
The prosecution's first witness in its case against Donald Trump was back on the stand Friday as defense attorneys tried to combat the story he has laid out about how the former president was ...