Within 24 hours of having been advised that he had been indicted by a federal grand jury, former President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he was getting a new lawyer to defend him against special counsel Jack Smith and the US government.Trump’s efforts to revamp his legal team are about as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as long as his lawyers cannot defend Trump from … himself.We’ve seen this before, with Trump’s penchant for changing legal counsel seems at the drop of a hat throughout his ongoing legal…
Taipei, Taiwan – For decades, Hong Kong has advertised the rule of law as the cornerstone of the city’s success as an international business hub.
These days, though, the Hong Kong government often appears unwilling or unable to explain what the law actually is.
In the run-up to the June 4 anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, Hong Kong officials were repeatedly asked by journalists if commemorating the event would be a crime under a Beijing-decreed national security law (NSL) imposed in the wake of mass protests in 2019.
On each occasion, the officials, including Hong Kong Chief Executive…
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 15 (Reuters) – A Pakistani court in the eastern city of Lahore on Monday granted bail until May 23 to former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s wife in a graft case, a lawyer in their legal team said.
Khan was arrested by the country’s anti-graft agency last week in the same case, prompting violent protests across the country, which is already reeling from a crippling economic crisis. He was later released and received bail from a court in Islamabad for two weeks.
Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, was co-accused along with Khan in the case, which is pertained to…
Dougherty County, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A Georgia man waiting more than a decade behind bars for his day in court is one step closer to moving his case forward.
On Tuesday, Maurice Jimmerson appeared before a Dougherty County judge to schedule a future trial date. He was joined by Andrew Fleischman, an Atlanta attorney now representing the 32-year-old after hearing about his case on Atlanta News First Investigates this past April.
Arrested for murder in 2013, Jimmerson has spent the past 10 years behind bars, awaiting trial. A jury acquitted two of his co-defendants for the same crime…
TORONTO, June 6, 2023 /CNW/ – Einstein Personal Injury Lawyers is once again honored to be recognized as a Top 10 Personal Injury Boutique in Canada. This marks the third consecutive year that the firm has been awarded the prestigious designation by Canadian Lawyers Magazine.Neinstein Personal Injury Lawyers Proud to Be a Recipient of Canadian Lawyer’s 2023 Top 10 Personal Injury Boutique Law Firm Award. (CNW Group/Neinstein LLP)Neinstein Personal Injury Lawyers are dedicated to transforming lives. The firm’s 18 lawyers focus on catastrophic personal injury, medical malpracticeand mass torts. NeinsteinLLP has established a prolific trial and appellate practice,…
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Emily Waster PettusPublished June 02, 2023 • 3 minute readFILE – Absentee ballots waiting to be processed at the Lee County Circuit Clerk’s Office in Tupelo, Miss., on Nov. 3, 2020. A lawsuit filed Wednesday, May 31, 2023, seeks to block a Mississippi law that will put new restrictions on who can gather other people’s absentee ballots. The law is set to take effect July 1, and the lawsuit argues that it could disfranchise voters with disabilities by preventing them from receiving…
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—A New York City woman was indicted on seven felony hate crime charges in connection with a string of anti-Asian attacks on the city’s Upper West Side, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Wednesday.Camila Rodriguez, 29, was charged in two New York State Supreme Court indictments with assault in the second degree as a hate crime, six counts of assault in the third degree as a hate crime, and six counts of aggravated harassment in the second degree, the district attorney’s office said.CNN reached out to Rodriguez’s attorney at The Legal Aid Society, a nonprofit that…
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is facing a court application aimed at forcing him to determine whether Canada’s war crimes laws prevent former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett from attending a speaking engagement in Toronto later this month.
The application — known by its technical term of a mandamus — was filed Friday in Federal Court and asked a judge to compel Mendicino into making a decision on Bennett’s admissibility.
It was filed by Khaled Mouammar, a former national president of the Canadian Arab Federation, human rights groups Palestinian and Jewish Unity and Just Peace Advocates, and the think-tank Canadian…