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Becket, also known as the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, is a non-profit public interest law firm [4] based in Washington, D.C., that describes its mission as "defending the freedom of religion of people of all faiths". Becket promotes accommodationism and is active in the judicial system, the media, and in education. [5]
The Becket controversy or Becket dispute was the quarrel between Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket and King Henry II of England from 1163 to 1170. [1] The controversy culminated with Becket's murder in 1170, [ 2 ] and was followed by Becket's canonization in 1173 and Henry's public penance at Canterbury in July 1174.
Attorney General of Texas Dan Morales (D) pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion in relation to a $17 million tobacco industry settlement with the State of Texas in 1998. He was sentenced to four years in a federal prison for mail fraud and tax evasion in a case involving Texas' $17 billion settlement with the tobacco industry in 1998.
Nearly 40 percent of the nation’s juvenile delinquents are today committed to private facilities, according to the most recent federal data from 2011, up from about 33 percent twelve years earlier. Over the past two decades, more than 40,000 boys and girls in 16 states have gone through one of Slattery’s prisons, boot camps or detention ...
Testimony from three Black men — one mentally unstable and a convicted felon who later recanted — brought conviction. Most of the 10 sentences involved about 30 prison years.
These officials have been convicted under two types of statutes. The first type are also applicable to corrupt state and local officials: [ 1 ] the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, [ 2 ] the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), [ 3 ] the Travel Act (enacted 1961), [ 4 ] and the Racketeer ...
After spending years behind bars for crimes they didn't commit, some men and women who have been wrongfully convicted have received their freedom. But as Erin Moriarty points out, for many ...
Becket or The Honour of God (French: Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu), often shortened to Becket, is a 1959 stage play written in French by Jean Anouilh. It is a depiction of the conflict between Thomas Becket and King Henry II of England leading to Becket's assassination in 1170. [1] It contains many historical inaccuracies, which the author ...