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State plan would move Daviess into First Appellate District

Messenger-Inquirer 08 Jan 2022
The maps are only for Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges ... The proposed map change means Appellate Judge Jeff Taylor, who has his office in Owensboro, would remain with the Second District when Daviess County moves to the First District. Taylor lives in Ohio County, and judges must live in their district.
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Another View

The Marshall News Messenger 08 Jan 2022
No one — not the president or a senator, or an agency bureaucrat or a sitting judge ... While that may be a sign that sanity will ultimately prevail, it’s beyond disconcerting that a judge would issue the order in the first place ... of a diary belonging to President Biden’s daughter.
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German teacher convicted of ‘cannibalism fantasy’ killing

Federal News Radio 08 Jan 2022
... the judge said was carried as part of “cannibalism fantasies.” ... Presiding Judge Matthias Schertz said the defendant killed a 43-year-old mechanic in September 2020 “to live out his cannibalism fantasies,” news agency dpa reported. “What you did was inhuman,” the judge said.
photo: AP / Michael Probst
German police officers watch people gathering on the square in front of the Old Opera for drinks and food in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, May 21, 2021
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German teacher gets life for 'cannibalism fantasy' killing

Gulf News 08 Jan 2022
Frankfurt ... Presiding judge Matthias Schertz said Stefan R ... In 30 years as a judge, "nothing like this has come across my desk before", he said ... But judge Schertz said this version of events was "unbelievable from start to finish", noting the "very careful separation of testicles and penis" as evidence of a cannibalistic ritual ... .
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Should Alex Murdaugh's $7 million bond be lowered? SC judge to consider it Monday

Marietta Daily Journal 08 Jan 2022
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina judge will hear arguments Monday over whether to lower the $7 million bond slapped last year on accused embezzler Alex Murdaugh. Judge Alison Renee Lee will preside over the 2 p.m. hearing. It will ... .
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UPDATE: 3 Pittsburg Suspects in Armed Robbery Spree Released from Jail on Judge’s Order

CBS Sports 08 Jan 2022
The judge was unwilling to allow the men to remain in custody and overruled the rejection, and authorized the release ... After the presiding judge heard testimony from detectives and officers, along with a vast amount of evidence, all three men were held to answer for 19 counts of armed robbery, with a pending jury trial to take place at a later date.
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Judge scolds NC woman for bringing son to US Capitol riot, then sentences her to prison

Finger Lakes Times 08 Jan 2022
But the judge said Spencer’s mere presence had given support to hundreds of protesters, spurred on by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen election, who attacked police, smashed through windows and doors, and left parts of the Capitol in ruins ... “It wasn’t a great idea to go in,” the judge said.
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Texas abortion law likely to head to state supreme court, could delay decision by months

The Bryan Eagle 08 Jan 2022
On Friday, a three-judge panel from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S ... Judges Edith H. Jones and Stuart Kyle Duncan indicated they believe there are state law questions that must first be resolved by the Texas Supreme Court, while Judge Stephen A ... The odds were clear even before the judges gaveled in Friday morning.
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Texas abortion law likely to head to state supreme court

The Marshall News Messenger 08 Jan 2022
On Friday, a three-judge panel from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S ... Judges Edith H. Jones and Stuart Kyle Duncan indicated they believe there are state law questions that must first be resolved by the Texas Supreme Court, while Judge Stephen A ... The odds were clear even before the judges gaveled in on Friday morning.
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Murdaugh latest: Attorneys file motion to reduce $7 million bond for Alex Murdaugh

Spartanburg Herald-Journal 08 Jan 2022
On Jan ... State Grand Jury ... Glenn Detention Center on a $7 million bond, with no 10-percent option, a condition set by State Grand Jury Presiding Judge Alison Renee Lee on Dec. 13 ... "Mr ... "Mr ... It is unclear when a judge will consider this motion, said Robert Kittle with the S.C ... Bond was previously denied by South Carolina Judge Clifton Newman on Nov ... On Dec.
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Mark Meadows asks Supreme Court to quickly weigh in on Trump's Jan. 6 lawsuit

Yahoo Daily News 08 Jan 2022
If the judges were to find that Trump "has a valid claim of privilege which President Biden cannot waive, or that the Select Committee is not pursuing a valid legislative purpose, then the Select Committee would need to narrow its investigation (or at least go back to the ...
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Around the nation

Decatur Daily 08 Jan 2022
Pai frequently had to assert himself during the Trump Presidency when heads of other federal agencies, including the Defense and Transportation departments, encroached on FCC turf ... No one – not the president or a senator, or an agency bureaucrat or a sitting judge.
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Stalemates, court battles could squeeze primary election

Observer-Reporter 08 Jan 2022
Al Schmidt, a former Philadelphia election commissioner who is now president and CEO of the good-government group Committee of Seventy, said lawmakers and judges have never been particularly sensitive to the time and predictability election administrators need to carry out an election.
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