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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 ...
Judge Duty station Born Term of service Appointed by Active Chief Senior; 25 Chief Judge Kristine Baker: Little Rock: 1971 2012–present 2023–present — Obama: 23 District Judge Brian S. Miller: Little Rock: 1967 2008–present 2012–2019 — G.W. Bush: 24 District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. Little Rock: 1963 2010–present 2019–2023 ...
To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first.
A federal judge has ruled that former Ald. Edward Burke’s allegedly insensitive comments on wiretaps about Jewish lawyers can be heard by the jury at his upcoming corruption trial. Burke’s ...
Congress has never extended federal diversity jurisdiction to amounts that small. Under federal law (28 U.S.C. §1332), the amount in dispute must exceed $75,000 for a case to be heard in federal court based on diversity of the parties' citizenship (the parties are from different states or different countries). [33]
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Federal grand jury for the Roy Olmstead trial, Seattle, 1926. The federal government is required to use grand juries for all felonies, though not misdemeanors, by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [5] All states can use them, but only half actually do with the others using only preliminary hearings. [6]
A federal appeals court on Thursday said Arkansas can't enforce its ban on transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of ...