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Martin v. Ohio, 480 U.S. 228 (1987), is a criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the presumption of innocence requiring prosecution to prove each element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt only applies to elements of the offense, and does not extend to the defense of justification, whereby states could legislate a burden on the defense to prove justification.
Ernest Martin (September 22, 1960 – June 18, 2003) was executed by the State of Ohio for the murder of a Cleveland store owner. He was convicted of the crime on July 8, 1983, and spent 19 years, 11 months, and 10 days on death row while his case was appealed.
Martin v. Wilks: 490 U.S. 755 (1989) civil procedure in employment affirmative action Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police: 491 U.S. 58 (1989) States and their officials acting in their official capacity are not persons under Section 1983: Texas v. Johnson: 491 U.S. 397 (1989) freedom of speech (flag burning) Ward v. Rock Against Racism: 491 ...
This problem prompted the state government to reintroduce the electric chair and passed new legislation of firing squad executions as the alternative execution methods in case the option of lethal injection was unavailable. [25] Eventually, the state successfully procured new drugs in September 2023 to restart executions by lethal injection. [26]
State of Florida v. George Zimmerman was a criminal prosecution of George Zimmerman on the charge of second-degree murder stemming from the killing of Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. On April 11, 2012, George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager.
James Martin was a serial abuser of the court’s certiorari process; in the past decade following the court’s per curium opinion, Martin filed 45 petitions relating to being incarcerated for an unrelated offense, and the last 15 petitions for the prior two years were dismissed under the court’s rule 39.8. [4]
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Martin v. Struthers, 319 U.S. 141 (1943), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a law prohibiting the distribution of handbills from door to door violated the First Amendment rights of a Jehovah's Witness, specifically their freedom of speech. The ruling was 5-4 and deemed trespassing laws a better fit for the town ...
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