Recent Updates
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Owner of Maryland Construction Company Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
Attorneys News 08/10/2023According to court documents, Jerry Lee Redman of Severn, Maryland, owned Redman Services Inc. (RSI), a paving and construction company. For at least 2015 through 2018, Redman filed corporate income tax returns for RSI that underreported the business...
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Pakistan leader moves to disband parliament, his jailed nemesis seeks release
Attorneys News 08/07/2023Pakistan’s prime minister said Wednesday he is moving toward dissolving parliament, starting a possible countdown to a general election, as his chief political rival fought to overturn a corruption conviction that landed him in a high-security ...
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Top court: Social media posts violate no-contact order
Attorneys News 07/25/2018Social media posts can represent a violation of a protection order, the state's highest court ruled on Tuesday, affirming the conviction of a man who made threats on Facebook.The Maine Supreme Judicial Court rejected Richard Heffron III's arguments t...
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Indonesia court upholds seizure of illegal fishing vessel
Attorneys News 10/27/2017Indonesia says it has won a two-year court battle that confirms the legality of the government's seizure of a Thai vessel linked to human trafficking and illegal fishing in Indonesian waters. Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Susi Pudjiastut...
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Roman Polanski sex victim to appear in court for first time
Attorneys News 06/09/2017The victim of Roman Polanski's sex assault 40 years ago is going to appeal directly to a judge to end the long-running case against the fugitive director, his lawyer said Thursday. Samantha Geimer, 13 at the time of the crime, has long supported Pola...
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Donnelly facing doubts from Indiana liberals over court vote
Attorneys News 04/04/2017A small protest by liberals outside Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly's downtown Indianapolis office this week could signal trouble for his 2018 re-election hopes. Some of those who protested against Donnelly's decision to break with his party and to supp...
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US Supreme Court refuses appeals from 3 on Texas death row
Attorneys News 03/01/2017The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review appeals in three Texas death row cases, including one where a man pleaded guilty to a triple slaying in South Texas. The high court's rulings moved two inmates closer to execution: LeJames Norman, 31, c...
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UK court says income threshold for foreign spouses is lawful
Attorneys News 02/19/2017Britain's Supreme Court says the government is entitled to set a minimum-income threshold for people wanting to bring foreign spouses to the country, a measure introduced to ensure immigrants won't draw on public welfare funds. But the court says the...
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Appeals court rules against Kansas in voting rights case
Attorneys News 10/01/2016Thousands of prospective voters in Kansas who did not provide citizenship documents will be able to vote in the November election under a federal appeals court ruling late Friday that upheld a judge's order. The decision from the U.S. 10th Cir...
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'Whitey' Bulger asks US Supreme Court to hear his appeal
Attorneys News 08/18/2016James "Whitey" Bulger has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal of his racketeering convictions for playing a role in 11 murders and committing a litany of other crimes. It is unclear if the high court will take up the Boston gangster's cas...
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Indiana court to hear woman's appeal of feticide conviction
Attorneys News 05/24/2016Attorneys for an Indiana woman found guilty of killing the premature infant she delivered after ingesting abortion-inducing drugs will ask an appeals court Monday to throw out the convictions that led to her 20-year prison sentence. At issue is India...
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Maryland high court issues opinion in Gray case
Attorneys News 05/22/2016Maryland's highest court has released an opinion explaining its recent decision to force an officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray to testify against his colleagues. The Maryland Court of Appeals issued its opinion Friday. Chief Judge Mary Elle...