Recent Updates
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Court Halts Execution Of Tyler Woman's Killer
Daily Legal News 07/23/2015The Texas Court of Criminal of Appeals halted the scheduled lethal injection of Clifton Lamar Williams until questions about some incorrect testimony at his 2006 trial can be resolved. Williams, 31, had faced execution Thursday evening for the k...
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Peterson returns to court in murder-for-hire trial
Practice Legal News 07/07/2015Former suburban Chicago police sergeant Drew Peterson is due back in court as his trial on charges of plotting to kill a prosecutor approaches. A hearing in the case is scheduled for Tuesday in the southern Illinois county where Peterson is impr...
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Doctor with hundreds of fraud victims faces sentencing
Political and Legal News 07/07/2015A Harvard medical professor says patients of a Detroit-area cancer doctor were at high risk of infection because of excessive doses of powerful, expensive drugs.Dr. Farid Fata will be sentenced in federal court for fraud. But a judge first is hearing...
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In Supreme Court loss, death penalty foes see an opening
Political and Legal News 07/07/2015A strongly worded dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court's narrow decision this week upholding the use of an execution drug offered a glimmer of hope to death penalty opponents in what they considered otherwise a gloomy ruling. One advocate went so far Tu...
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Texas turns away from criminal truancy courts for students
Daily Legal News 06/21/2015A long-standing Texas law that has sent about 100,000 students a year to criminal court — and some to jail — for missing school is off the books, though a Justice Department investigation into one county's truancy courts continues.Gov. Greg Abbott ha...
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Man pleads guilty to charge over noose on Ole Miss statue
Daily Legal News 06/21/2015A federal prosecutor said in court Thursday that Graeme Phillip Harris hatched a plan, after a night of drinking at a University of Mississippi fraternity house, to hang a noose on a campus statue of James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Mis...
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High court won't hear appeal over Walker campaign probe
Political and Legal News 05/18/2015The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a conservative group seeking to end an investigation into possible illegal coordination between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 recall campaign and independent groups. The justices on Monday let stand an...
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Former Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor
Political and Legal News 12/05/2014No matter the situation, an attorney from the Plymouth Canton Law Office of Rita O. White is available to assist. For everything from questions only a lawyer could answer, to a specific legal issue you may have, we are here to lend a helping hand. Yo...
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Michigan Defense Lawyer
Political and Legal News 12/05/2014The attorneys at the Davis Law Group, PLLC are former prosecutors who have dealt with a wide variety of cases, from minor traffic stops to homicide. As a criminal defense firm, we work in the Metro Detroit area, including Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb C...
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North Carolina Worker's Compensation & Social Security Disability
Political and Legal News 12/02/2014We at DiRusso & DiRusso have been helping those in our area with legal need for the past 23 years. Located near Mount Airy, North Carolina, we are grateful for the citizens of Surry County for consistently choosing us for legal representation. Our st...
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Divorce Litigation and Child Custody & Visitation in Northern Virginia
Focused Practice 11/25/2014The Law Offices of Tenecia P. Reid is dedicated to providing outstanding and creative legal solutions to clients throughout Northern Virginia. The Law Offices of Tenecia P. Reid is here to help you determine how to achieve your goals and maintain you...
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Trademark, Patent & Intellectual Property Rights
Political and Legal News 10/28/2014Specializing only in guarding intellectual property rights for clients in The Gambia and Sierra Leone, AB & Co is a boutique agency that acts as Trademark & Patent Attorneys for principals the world over, along with partner law firms. AB & Co provide...