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Since 1999, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has set forth guidelines concerning the prosecution of business organizations and corporations. [3] The United States Attorneys' Manual (USAM) of the DOJ allows consideration of non-prosecution or deferred prosecution of corporate criminal offenses because of collateral consequences and discusses plea agreements, deferred prosecution ...
On May 31, 2019, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation explaining California's abortion laws, and encouraged women from states seeking to restrict a woman's ability to get an abortion to come to California for an abortion if she needs one. The statement read in part, "California will continue to uphold women's equality and ...
A deferred sentence is a sentence that is suspended until after a defendant has completed a period of probation. If the defendant fulfills the stipulations surrounding probation, a judge may then throw out the sentence and guilty plea, clearing the incident from their record.
A resolution to 9-year-old felony state securities fraud charges against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may be near through a possible deal with the special prosecutor in the case.
Over the last 54 years, NARAL Pro-Choice America has become one of the largest and most well-known abortion rights advocacy groups in the nation, a mouthful of an organization that fights for ...
The abortion bans that have swept the country all include an exception when a pregnancy is life-threatening. But that's often a judgment call.
In criminal procedure, an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD or ACOD) allows a court to defer the disposition of a defendant's case, with the potential that the defendant's charge will be dismissed if the defendant does not engage in additional criminal conduct or other acts prohibited by the court as a condition of the ACD.
The case is the latest in a series of legal battles over emergency abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling that allowed states to ban the procedure.