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County courts were abolished in 1855 and their functions were transferred to a strengthened Superior Court. [4] As the volume of cases continued to increase, the Connecticut General Assembly found it necessary to create a series of Courts of Common Pleas. On July 1, 1978, the Court of Common Pleas and the Juvenile Court merged with the Superior ...
Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that under the Due Process Clause of the Constitution of the United States, the prosecution must turn over to a criminal defendant any significant evidence in its possession that suggests the defendant is not guilty (exculpatory evidence).
The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (in case citations, D. Conn.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Connecticut. The court has offices in Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven. Appeals from the court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Allen v. United States, 164 U.S. 492 (1896), was a United States Supreme Court case that, among other things, approved the use of a jury instruction intended to prevent a hung jury by encouraging jurors in the minority to reconsider. The Court affirmed Alexander Allen's murder conviction, having vacated his two prior convictions for the same ...
Case history; Prior: 1 Md. App. 647, 232 A.2d 541, vacated and remanded: Holding; The protections against double jeopardy in the Fifth Amendment are incorporated against the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Court membership; Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas
BALTIMORE — A Baltimore jury on Thursday found a 16-year-old guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a man who confronted a group of squeegee workers with a baseball bat last July. The ...
Around 11:30 a.m. Monday, the jury told the judge they reached a unanimous verdict on the second count in the case. The more serious charge of second-degree manslaughter was dismissed Friday after ...
A citizen's right to a trial by jury is a central feature of the United States Constitution. [1] It is considered a fundamental principle of the American legal system. Laws and regulations governing jury selection and conviction/acquittal requirements vary from state to state (and are not available in courts of American Samoa), but the fundamental right itself is mentioned five times in the ...