Tag: attorney general office

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Laura Kempton death: Suspect identified in 1981 killing with help of genetic genealogy, attorney general says

  • July 25, 2023
CNN — A homicide case that went cold for more than 40 years has been solved with the help of forensic genetic genealogy technology, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said Thursday. Investigators shifted through hundreds of leads after 23-year-old Laura Kempton was found dead in her Portsmouth apartment in September 1981 by a police officer who was trying to serve her a court summons, a release from the attorney general says. An autopsy revealed she died from “massive trauma” to a side of her head. But it wasn’t until 2022 that investigators analyzed DNA samples taken from Kempton’s…
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This man has been in pretrial detention for 10 years. why?

  • June 11, 2023
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…
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6th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds City’s Denial of Cannabis Dispensary

  • April 13, 2023
This post is authored by Julie Tappendorf, Esq. of Ancel Glink originally appeared in the Municipal Minute and is reposted with permission. The City of Detroit denied a permit application to operate a medical marijuana dispensary in the City. The City based its decision on the location of the proposed dispensary, which would fall within the City’s “drug free zone” as established by the City Code. The City Code prohibits locating a medical marijuana facility “within 1,000 radial feet of the zoning lot” of certain sensitive places, including a school, and the City determined that the proposed facility would be…
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Trump attorney says “there was no scheme and there was no crime” related to Daniels payments

  • April 7, 2023
Washington — Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for the former President Donald Trumpargued Wednesday that “there was no scheme and there was no crime” committed in connection with hush money payments made before the 2016 presidential election. In an interview with “CBS Mornings,” Tacopina defended Trump from accusations by New York prosecutors he orchestrated a years-long scheme with others to use the payments to suppress negative information before the 2016 election, asserting “there’s no crime at all.” The former president was indicated by a Manhattan grand jury last week and on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying…