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‘Shadow day’ offers students a look at criminal justice process

Edit Sacramento Bee 15 May 2016
Based on their area of interest, students will be paired with prosecuting attorneys, defense attorneys, probation officers, law enforcement officers, investigators and judges for a first-hand look at the criminal justice process and the different roles within the system....

Smarttys Bus Branding: A-G Recommended Prosecution Of Top Public Officials

Edit Modern Ghana 15 May 2016
OccupyGhana says it is heading back to court to challenge the Attorney-General's refusal to release a document on the ₵3.6m controversial bus branding deal ... OccupyGhana says the last jigsaw to the puzzle is the set of actions recommended by the Attorney-General including the prosecution of officials ... Justice Minister and Attorney-General Marrietta Brew Oppong-Appiah....

AG Kathleen Kane struck from Jerry Sandusky witness list

Edit Penn Live 15 May 2016
Kathleen Kane's top aides asked a judge to remove the attorney general from the proposed witness list in Jerry Sandusky's petition for a new trial in the child sex abuse case, and a judge has granted the request. Sandusky's attorneys provided Bruce Castor, Kane's new second-in-command, with a document outlining the testimony they expected to ......

Allentown woman settles claim she illegally gave immigration advice

Edit Lehigh Valley 15 May 2016
An Allentown woman accused of illegally helping clients with immigration documents for the Department of Homeland Security has settled a civil suit with the Pennsylvania attorney general's office....

Accounting for lost state dollars no easy task for county

Edit Commercial Appeal 15 May 2016
Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich receives 59 percent of her budget from county, which funds 60 percent of the public defender's office — although it is not required to do so. Weirich has been in the Shelby County District Attorney General's office for 25 years and said county funding predates her ... Norris also noted the increases for the state's district attorneys general....

Bridge case 'John Doe' argues court should keep list secret

Edit Denver Post 15 May 2016
An attorney for the man, referred to as John Doe in court papers, appealed a federal judge's ruling in New Jersey to the 3rd U.S ... stay request," said Bruce Rosen, of McCusker, Anselmi, Rosen & Carvelli, the attorney for the media groups....

32 Louisiana legislators push back on transgender bathroom access, protections

Edit The Times Picayune 15 May 2016
The lawmakers, all Republican House members, are asking Attorney General Jeff Landry to issue legal opinions on whether Edwards' recent executive order and Obama's federal directive prohibiting discrimination against transgender people can be enforced ... "Since it is clear that the attorney general and Rep ... "An attorney general's opinion should override the governor," he said in an interview. ....

Who Will Defend Tajikistan’s Defenders?

Edit Radio Free Europe 15 May 2016
But lately it is those attorneys who are on trial ... Fossum said, “The common thing is that all the charges [against them] appear trumped up and in retaliation for these attorneys representing the opposition.”. Buzurgmehr Yorov is one of those attorneys ... Other attorneys willing to take on cases for opposition figures are facing similar obstacles....

New Attorney General - Ingenious Mechanism to Shore Up Good Governance

Edit All Africa 15 May 2016
[Ethiopian Herald] Lately, the House of Peoples' Representatives (HPR) endorsed the Bill of the Office of Attorney General (OAG), after hearing and mulling over valuable ideas from the Legal, Administration and Justice Affairs Standing Committee. The establishment of influential Attorney General has eyed at providing consistent, efficient and effective legal service, securing the interests of the wider public and the government ... ....

Mexico court absolves soldiers in army killing of suspects

Edit Palm Beach Post 15 May 2016
The federal Attorney General's Office emailed a news release shortly after 11 p.m ... The federal Attorney General’s Office said late Friday, May 13, 2014, the three were absolved of charges of ......

Stop the clock, attorney argues in Bridgegate names case

Edit NJ dot com 15 May 2016
In papers filed with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, an attorney for the still anonymous individual requested a stay of last week's order by U.S ... "It is a due process violation for the government to label someone an unindicted co-conspirator," said attorney Jenny Kramer of Chadbourne & Parke in New York ... Attorney's office to reveal the list of ......

Probe of aides threatens to taint NY gov's marquee programs

Edit Times Union 15 May 2016
Attorney Preet Bharara's investigation was revealed last month when Cuomo's office confirmed the federal prosecutor was examining possible undisclosed conflicts of interest and improper bidding related to the Buffalo Billion initiative and Nano, the governor's effort to attract high-tech nanotechnology jobs ... attorney's criminal division in Manhattan, to lead an internal investigation and report any findings to Bharara's office....

Loretta Lynch: America’s new champion of equal rights

Edit The Observer 15 May 2016
Last Monday in Washington, the US attorney general delivered arguably the most powerful repudiation yet of attempts to deny people access to toilets that match their chosen gender identity ... The former attorney in New York, who has gone after everyone from mobsters to abusive police to world football dons, was shaped by three formative influences ... After nine years she became US attorney for New York’s eastern district....
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