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  2. Dennis Dechaine case - Wikipedia

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    A documentary entitled Murder in America: The Sarah Cherry Story was released about this case. [13] A book entitled Human Sacrifice was released by James P. Moore on Dechaine's case in 2002. [14] This case helped inspire the novel Death at Breakfast that was released by Beth Gutcheon in 2016. [15]

  3. Mullaney v. Wilbur - Wikipedia

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    Mullaney v. Wilbur, 421 U.S. 684 (1975), is a criminal case in which a unanimous court struck down a state statute requiring a defendant to prove the defense of provocation to downgrade a murder conviction to manslaughter. [1]: 17 Previous common law, such as in Commonwealth v. York (1845), allowed such burden on the defense. [1]: 17

  4. Alden v. Maine - Wikipedia

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    Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706 (1999), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States about whether the United States Congress may use its Article I powers to abrogate a state's sovereign immunity from suits in its own courts, thereby allowing citizens to sue a state in state court without the state's consent.

  5. Louis H. F. Wagner - Wikipedia

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    Louis H. F. Wagner [1] (also spelled Lewis Wagner; [2] died June 25, 1875) was a German-born fisherman who arrived in the United States around 1865. Eight years later he was accused of the axe murders of two Norwegian women, Anethe Matea Christensen and Karen Christensen, on Smuttynose Island in the Isles of Shoals of Maine and New Hampshire.

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  7. List of United States Supreme Court opinions involving ...

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    The U.S. Supreme Court has issued numerous rulings on the use of capital punishment (the death penalty). While some rulings applied very narrowly, perhaps to only one individual, other cases have had great influence over wide areas of procedure, eligible crimes, acceptable evidence and method of execution.

  8. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Shipp is the only criminal trial of the Supreme Court in its entire history. It is considered an important decision in that it affirmed the right of the US Supreme Court to intervene in state criminal cases. Shipp and several of his co-defendants were convicted and sentenced to terms from 2–3 months in federal prison. [22]

  9. Maine's top court dismisses appeal of judge's decision on ...

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    Maine’s top court Wednesday evening declined to weigh in on whether former President Donald Trump can stay on the state's ballot, keeping intact a judge's decision that the U.S. Supreme Court ...