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Andersen v. Eighth Judicial District Court, 135 Nev. Adv. Op. 42 (2019), [1] was a landmark decision of the Nevada Supreme Court in which the Court entitled every defendant charged with misdemeanor domestic battery to a jury trial in the State of Nevada. The case has been called "the most significant Nevada Supreme Court case of the 21st ...
Victims of Domestic Violence marker, Courthouse Square, Quincy, Florida Domestic violence is a form of violence that occurs within a domestic relationship. Although domestic violence often occurs between partners in the context of an intimate relationship, it may also describe other household violence, such as violence against a child, by a child against a parent or violence between siblings ...
From 2007 until 2010, Silva worked as an assistant state attorney in the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, serving as assistant chief of litigation for the domestic violence unit in 2010. From 2011 to 2019, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada. She was deputy chief ...
If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. All calls are toll-free ...
Specialized domestic violence courts are designed to improve victim safety and enhance defendant accountability. There is no one set definition of a specialized violence court, although these types of courts can be either civil or criminal and typically hear the majority of an area's domestic violence cases on a separate calendar.
The man who allegedly killed his wife last week in Macon had repeatedly been accused of domestic violence before the fatal shooting, according to the Bibb County district attorney’s office ...
This was the first time Nevada courts had considered police participation in the Justice Department's Equitable Sharing Program, in which federal law enforcement "adopts" civil forfeiture cases ...
The laws "require the police to make arrests in domestic violence cases when there was probable cause to do so, regardless of the wishes of the victim." [19] Before the laws were put into effect, police officers were required to witness the abuse occurring first hand prior to making an arrest. Currently, 23 states use mandatory arrest policies.