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'Must not be ignored': Ex-prosecutor highlights GOP ploy that's 'not even close to normal'

Will a political prosecution of former former Rep. Liz Cheney be successful? "No dice," says one former prosecutor who warns that the threat still shouldn't be ignored. Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig swiftly poured cold water on House Republicans’ claims that former Rep. Liz Cheney broke the law for her work on the Jan. 6 committee – and suggested that …

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2 days, 15 hours ago

A judge says Missouri’s GOP governor has the power to replace a Democratic county’s prosecutor

Associated Press

— A Missouri judge ruled Friday that the state’s Republican governor, not a local Democratic official, has the power to fill a vacancy in the prosecutor’s office for the state’s most populous county. A spokesperson said St. Louis County would appeal St. Louis Circuit Judge Brian May’s decision siding with Gov. “The voice of St. Louis County residents is taken …

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3 days, 21 hours ago

'Very definition of an own goal': Experts admonish Fani Willis for losing Trump case

Raw Story

Legal experts reacted in shock to a Georgia appeals court ruling that disqualified Fulton County district attorney from the election subversion case against Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators. "There are a lot of things Fani Willis could have done differently, I think, to avoid this ruling," said CNN legal analyst Elie Honig. "For example, she went in front of …

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3 days, 22 hours ago

Bombay High Court Asks Maha Govt To Send Hindu Boy And Muslim Girl To Newly Notified 'Safe Homes' For Interfaith & Intercaste Couples

Live Law

The Bombay High Court on Thursday ordered the Maharashtra government to make arrangements for sending a Hindu boy and Muslim girl to the State's newly notified 'Safe Homes' meant for 'interfaith' couples, for their protection. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Prithviraj Chavan was seized with a petition filed by a 23-year-old Hindu boy, who was in a …

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'Complete empty promise': Trump's threats against prosecutors face serious legal challenge

Raw Story

It's no secret that Donald Trump would like to punish the prosecutors who went after him, but legal experts say there are some limits to what he can do to them. Trump and his team are looking for retribution specifically against Jay Bratt, the counterintelligence chief within the Justice Department's national security division, and possibly his deputy Julie Edelstein, according …

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Action star returns to 'fight' as film director, producer and lead actor

China Daily

Actor Donnie Yen attends the Beijing premiere of his latest film The Prosecutor on Dec 15. As one of the country's most famous action stars, Donnie Yen returns to the silver screen in his latest film The Prosecutor during the competitive New Year box-office season. Featuring a stellar cast that includes Hong Kong actors Julian Cheung Chi-lam, Michael Hui Koon-man …

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Fani Willis is disqualified from prosecuting Trump election case in Georgia, appeals court rules

Politico

The ruling appears likely to require the case to be assigned to another prosecutor. In March, following high-profile televised hearings featuring testimony from Willis and Wade, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee concluded the prosecutors’ relationship had caused an appearance of impropriety. And it’s far from clear whether a new prosecutor would agree with Willis’ overarching legal theory, which …

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Prosecutor Fani Willis is removed from the Georgia election case against Trump and others

LA Times

A state appeals court on Thursday removed Fulton County Dist. Citing “the appearance of impropriety” by Willis that might not typically warrant such a removal, the court said in a 2-1 ruling that “this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.” Willis’ …

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Georgia court disqualifies prosecutor Fani Willis from Trump election case

Al Jazeera

The decision adds further uncertainty to the case, which alleges Trump and his allies tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential race. An appeals court in the state of Georgia has ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from prosecuting an election interference case against United States President-elect Donald Trump. The ruling is the …

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Georgia appeals court kicks DA Fani Willis off the Trump election interference case

Salon

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be disqualified and removed from President-elect Donald Trump's prosecution over his and his allies' efforts to subvert the state's 2020 election results, a Georgia appeals court ruled Thursday. It comes months after the trial court ruled Willis, who the president-elect's lawyers accused of improperly benefiting from hiring a romantic partner as a lead …

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Syrian mass graves expose 'machinery of death' under Assad regime: Prosecutor

India Today

An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013. Speaking after visiting two mass grave sites in the towns of Qutayfah and Najha near Damascus, former …

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Bolivia prosecutor seeks Morales arrest over 'trafficking' of minor

Raw Story

An arrest warrant has been issued for Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales with calls for an initial detention period of six months on suspicion of "trafficking" a 15-year-old girl while in office, authorities said Monday. "The exceptional measure of preventive imprisonment for six months in a public jail is being requested," the country's attorney general Roger Mariaca said late Monday. Hours …

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UnitedHealthcare CEO murder: Former Manhattan prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo to represent Luigi Mangione

India Today

Luigi Mangione has retained former Manhattan prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo to lead his legal defense amid murder charges in New York. Karen Friedman Agnifilo was a high-ranking deputy in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for years before entering private practice. Friedman Agnifilo’s law firm, Agnifilo Intrater LLP, confirmed in a statement late Friday that she had been retained to represent …

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From star prosecutor to an impeached president: The rise and fall of South Korea's Yoon Seok Yeol

Firstpost

South Korean lawmakers voted on Saturday to impeach President Yeon Seok Yeol for his botched attempt to implement martial law. However, his presidency is marred by a series of missteps and scandals South Korean lawmakers acted on the growing discontent among public and voted in the National Assembly to impeach the president Yoon Seok Yeol. Protesters attend a rally calling …

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CEO Shooting Suspect Hires Ex-Manhattan Prosecutor To Represent Him In New York

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has retained a former prosecutor and ex-CNN legal analyst as his attorney. Mangione has hired Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who for years worked in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office under Cyrus Vance Jr. before going into the private sector, to represent him in New …

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Luigi Mangione retains high-profile former prosecutor as defense lawyer

NPR

Luigi Mangione retains high-profile former prosecutor as defense lawyer toggle caption Jeff Swensen/Getty Images A prominent attorney who once served as a Manhattan chief assistant district attorney will represent Luigi Mangione as he faces murder charges in New York for the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. At the Manhattan DA's office, Friedman Agnifilo prosecuted violent crime cases, including …

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Missouri governor and St. Louis County executive name appointees for same prosecutor job

Associated Press

— When the elected prosecutor in Missouri’s largest county leaves his job for a seat in Congress next month, an appointed replacement will take his spot. But Page counters that the relevant law here is the St. Louis County Charter, which “clearly states that the county executive is authorized to appoint the prosecuting attorney when a vacancy occurs,” his spokesman, …

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Allu Arjun arrested, released on bail

The Hindu

In a day of dramatic developments, lead actor of Pushpa-2 Allu Arjun secured interim bail for four weeks from Telangana High Court on Friday within hours of Hyderabad Police arresting and lodging him in prison in a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Justice Juvvadi Sridevi of the High Court, who heard the actor’s bail application moved as …

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Allu Arjun Arrest: Telangana High Court Grants Interim Bail To Allu For 4 Weeks In Stampede Case

Live Law

The Telangana High Court on Friday granted interim bail for four weeks to actor Allu Arjun who had sought quashing of FIR in connection with a stampede which occurred outside a cinema hall in Hyderabad last week when the actor had an unscheduled visit, in which one woman also died.After hearing the arguments for around two hours Justice Juvvadi Sridevi …

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Prominent human rights attorney quits international court over failure to prosecute Venezuela

Associated Press

MIAMI — A prominent human rights attorney has quietly parted ways with the International Criminal Court to protest what he sees as an unjustified failure of its chief prosecutor to indict members of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ’s government for crimes against humanity, The Associated Press has learned. In a harshly worded email last month to Khan, Grossman said his …

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France: 4 face trial for ‘cyber harassment’ of first lady Brigitte Macron

Hindustan Times

Four men will appear in court next year in Paris over allegations they harassed French First Lady Brigitte Macron online, the public prosecutor said Thursday. Brigitte Macron, wife of the French President, filed a complaint in August due to cyber harrassment Disinformation on Macron's gender has circulated on social media for years. Brigitte Macron filed a complaint in August, and …

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Key informant who lied in Biden impeachment pleads guilty: court records

Raw Story

Alexander Smirnov has been given a plea deal after he spent years lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, which resulted in a years-long investigation by Republicans in Congress, flagged national security expert Marcy Wheeler. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Sen. Chuck Grassley, and former Attorney General Bill Barr all bought into the false claims, resulting in …

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Kylian Mbappé: Investigation into rape allegations closed due to insufficient evidence, says prosecutor

CNN

CNN — An investigation into rape allegations made against France and Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappé has been dropped due to insufficient evidence, Swedish prosecutors said Thursday. In October, several Swedish outlets – including Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT, who cited “documents obtained,” and CNN affiliate Expressen, who cited a police report – reported that Mbappé was “suspected on reasonable grounds …

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'No obedience in advance': Alvin Bragg said to have shown 'no intention of going quietly'

Raw Story

A lot of Donald Trump's legal problems vanished when he won the presidency, but one Trump prosecutor isn't backing down, a legal expert said Wednesday. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance raised the discussion, pointing to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's recent legal filing indicating that he isn’t ready to let Trump off the hook in his fraud case involving hush …

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'Must not be ignored': Ex-prosecutor highlights GOP ploy that's 'not even close to normal'

A judge says Missouri’s GOP governor has the power to replace a Democratic county’s prosecutor

'Very definition of an own goal': Experts admonish Fani Willis for losing Trump case

Bombay High Court Asks Maha Govt To Send Hindu Boy And Muslim Girl To Newly Notified 'Safe Homes' For Interfaith & Intercaste Couples

'Complete empty promise': Trump's threats against prosecutors face serious legal challenge

Action star returns to 'fight' as film director, producer and lead actor

Fani Willis is disqualified from prosecuting Trump election case in Georgia, appeals court rules

Prosecutor Fani Willis is removed from the Georgia election case against Trump and others

Georgia court disqualifies prosecutor Fani Willis from Trump election case

Georgia appeals court kicks DA Fani Willis off the Trump election interference case

Syrian mass graves expose 'machinery of death' under Assad regime: Prosecutor

Bolivia prosecutor seeks Morales arrest over 'trafficking' of minor

UnitedHealthcare CEO murder: Former Manhattan prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo to represent Luigi Mangione

From star prosecutor to an impeached president: The rise and fall of South Korea's Yoon Seok Yeol

CEO Shooting Suspect Hires Ex-Manhattan Prosecutor To Represent Him In New York

Luigi Mangione retains high-profile former prosecutor as defense lawyer

Missouri governor and St. Louis County executive name appointees for same prosecutor job

Allu Arjun arrested, released on bail

Allu Arjun Arrest: Telangana High Court Grants Interim Bail To Allu For 4 Weeks In Stampede Case

Prominent human rights attorney quits international court over failure to prosecute Venezuela

France: 4 face trial for ‘cyber harassment’ of first lady Brigitte Macron

Key informant who lied in Biden impeachment pleads guilty: court records

Kylian Mbappé: Investigation into rape allegations closed due to insufficient evidence, says prosecutor

'No obedience in advance': Alvin Bragg said to have shown 'no intention of going quietly'