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This list consists of American politicians convicted of crimes either committed or prosecuted while holding office in the federal government.It includes politicians who were convicted or pleaded guilty in a court of law; and does not include politicians involved in unprosecuted scandals (which may or may not have been illegal in nature), or politicians who have only been arrested or indicted.
Louisiana, 406 U. S. 356 (1972), was a court case in the U.S. Supreme Court involving the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Louisiana law that allowed less-than unanimous jury verdicts (9 to 12 jurors) to convict persons charged ...
Burch v. Louisiana, 441 U.S. 130 (1979), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court that invalidated a Louisiana statute allowing a conviction upon a nonunanimous verdict from a jury of six for a petty offense. [1] The statute allowed for conviction if only five jurors agreed, and this was held to be a violation of the Sixth ...
Multiple fights across the school campus ended with 10 arrests, officials said. ... into 200-person brawl involving parents, Louisiana cops say ... younger were arrested between both law ...
A sideline altercation at an elementary school basketball game in Louisiana last week ended with two women in jail and one in the hospital. On Monday, Jan. 13, the principal of Iberville ...
A Louisiana state trooper pleaded no contest Monday to significantly reduced charges that spare him jail time in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene, the first conviction of any ...
In October 2009, the Louisiana Supreme Court placed Jefferson on interim suspension from the practice of law. [60] On November 13, 2009, Jefferson was sentenced to 13 years for bribery, the longest sentence ever handed down to a congressman for bribery or any other charge. [6]
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