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The following is an incomplete list of notable individuals that have entered an Alford plea.An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine) [4] [5] [6] in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence.
This list of U.S. states by Alford plea usage documents usage of the form of guilty plea known as the Alford plea in each of the U.S. states in the United States. An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine [4] [5] [6]) in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and ...
The Supreme Court of Virginia is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Virginia.It primarily hears direct appeals in civil cases from the trial-level city and county circuit courts, as well as the criminal law, family law and administrative law cases that are initially appealed to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
Lester B. Orfield, A Resume of Decisions of the United States Supreme Court on Federal Criminal Procedure, 30 Ky. L.J. 360 (1942). Lester B. Orfield, A Resume of Decisions of the United States Supreme Court on Federal Criminal Procedure, 7 Mo. L. Rev. 263 (1942).
Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303 (1880) The exclusion of individuals from juries solely because of their race is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. This was the first time that the Supreme Court reversed a state criminal conviction due to a violation of a constitutional provision concerning criminal procedure. Yick Wo v.
"Say goodbye to all the criminal cases," Karen Friedman Agnifilo, the former chief of the Manhattan district attorney's trial division, told ABC News. "The criminal cases are over, whether it's ...
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York, No. 18-280, 590 U.S. ___ (2020) (per curiam) - This case regarded a New York City law that forbade the transfer of unloaded and locked firearms from one's residence to anywhere other than one of seven shooting ranges within the city. After the Court agreed to hear the case ...
Accepting bribes from a criminal defendant [33] Marc Stuart Dreier: New York: October 8, 2009 — Violation of New York's insider trading statute and General Business Law [34] Ed Fagan: New York: December 2008 — Failed to pay court fines and fees in Holocaust Case [35] New Jersey: January 2009 — Convicted for stealing money from Holocaust ...