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Another court had 431 cases scheduled, but 67% of those had been passed, canceled or reset. Staff members at the detention center referred to that judge as a “ghost” court because it so seldom ...
The appeals court relied on a 1968 Supreme Court ruling that a state can limit minors’ access to sexually explicit material – in that case, “girlie” magazines. But while that decision − ...
Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that parodies of public figures, even those intending to cause emotional distress, are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The decision came in the case of Sheldon Mattis, who was convicted of the 2011 killing of a Boston teen as part of a gang feud. Mattis was 18 at the time of the shooting and was sentenced to life ...
Cutlers Court is an American syndicated court show produced by Crazy Legs Productions. The program features trial attorneys Dana and Keith Cutler presiding over real-life relationship cases. The series currently films in Atlanta, Georgia .
The decision of the court was based on two consolidated cases, Jackson v.Hobbs, No. 10-9647, and Miller v.Alabama, No. 10-9646. [5] The Los Angeles Times wrote: "In one case that came before the court, Kuntrell Jackson was 14 in November 18, 1999 when he and two other teenagers went to a video store in Arkansas planning to rob it. [6]
The Supreme Court's decision in Roper v. Simmons overturned the death sentences of 72 others who had already been convicted for crimes they committed while younger than age 18. The greatest effects were in Texas, where 29 juvenile offenders were awaiting execution, and in Alabama, where 13 on death row had been sentenced as juveniles.
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