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Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S. 639 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld two important aspects of the capital sentencing scheme in Arizona—judicial sentencing and the aggravating factor "especially heinous, cruel, or depraved"—as not unconstitutionally vague.
The District was established on June 20, 1910, pending Arizona statehood on February 14, 1912. [1] The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. As of November 2021 the United States attorney is Gary M. Restaino. [2]
The Guidelines are the product of the United States Sentencing Commission, which was created by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. [3] The Guidelines' primary goal was to alleviate sentencing disparities that research had indicated were prevalent in the existing sentencing system, and the guidelines reform was specifically intended to provide for determinate sentencing.
Laucius states that the terms "sexual violence or sexual harassment and assault are much more specific terms that convey the nature of the allegations." [ 5 ] Elaine Craig, an associate professor in the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, states that "[s]exual misconduct is a lay term, sometimes used in institutional policies or by ...
Jonathan Majors has been sentenced to one year of domestic violence counseling nearly four months after being found guilty of domestic assault charges. Majors must complete a 52-week, in-person ...
Civil rights groups in the United States, such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), [1] [2] American Jewish Committee (AJC) [3] and Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), [4] catalog antisemitic incidents, including assaults, harassment, vandalism, violence and threats of violence. [5]
Sentencing was postponed Thursday for former Arizona prisons chief Charles Ryan on his no-contest plea to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from a 2022 armed standoff at his Tempe home. The ...
At Turner’s June 2016 sentencing, Dauber sat with Emily. There was one case before Turner’s—that of a man named Ming Hsuan Chiang, who had been accused by his former fiancée of brutal domestic violence. “The photos of her that she showed in court looked like CSI: Miami,” Dauber recalled.