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Pages in category "Lawyers from Washington, D.C." The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 753 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Yasimori Asada: [1] First Japanese male student to enroll at the Georgetown University School of Law (1877) [Washington, D.C.] Winston A. Douglas, Elmer W. Henderson, William D. Martin and Lutrelle F. Parke: [1] First African American male students to enroll at the Georgetown University School of Law (1948) [Washington, D.C.]
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with Maryland to its north and east. It was named after George Washington, the first president of the United ...
By statute, the U.S. attorney is responsible for prosecuting both federal crimes and all serious crimes committed by adults in the District of Columbia. Therefore, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia serves as both the federal prosecutor (as in the other 92 U.S. attorneys' offices) and as the local district attorney.
Mandatory death sentences were abolished by the HR5143 (PL87-423), signed into law by President John F. Kennedy on March 22, 1962. [2] Rape was also a capital offense. [3] The D.C. capital punishment law was nullified by the Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia in 1972 and formally repealed by the D.C. Council in 1981.
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
Emanuel Hirsch Bloch (May 12, 1901 – January 30, 1954) was an American attorney known for defending clients associated with left-wing and Communist causes. He and Marshall Perlin defended Julius and Ethel Rosenberg .
Slade Gorton (1953), Washington Attorney General (1969–81), former U.S. Senator from Washington [352] Theodore E. Hancock (1873), New York State Attorney General (1894–98) [ 353 ] Peter C. Harvey (1982), first African American to serve as Attorney General of New Jersey (2003–06) [ 354 ]