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Bradley A. Premo, 38, of Norfolk, is charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a felony. The indictment charges that on May 25, the defendant violated an order of protection by threatening to ...
Weisselberg appeared at Manhattan Criminal Court earlier this month and was charged with five counts of perjury in the first degree, with the judge accepting a plea deal he had agreed with ...
Under the Contempt of Court Act it is criminal contempt to publish anything which creates a real risk that the course of justice in proceedings may be seriously impaired. It only applies where proceedings are active, and the Attorney General has issued guidance as to when he believes this to be the case, and there is also statutory guidance ...
Clerk: Donald Trump, you are before the court for sentence following your conviction by trial to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Before being sentenced, the court ...
A scandal in 1830 led to reform of the contempt law and the creation of obstruction of justice as a separate offense. Federal judge James H. Peck imprisoned a lawyer for contempt for publishing a letter criticizing one of Peck's opinions. In an effort to prevent such abuses, Congress passed a law in 1831 limiting the application of the summary ...
Michael Byron Nifong (born September 14, 1950) is a disbarred American prosecutor who formerly served as the Durham County District Attorney.He was removed from this position, disbarred, and jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse case, primarily his conspiring with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that could have acquitted the ...
Mangione is due to return to Pennsylvania on Feb. 24 for a preliminary hearing over criminal charges in the Keystone State, where he was arrested. ... an “exceedingly rare” first-degree murder ...
In United States law, an Alford plea, also called a Kennedy plea in West Virginia, [1] an Alford guilty plea, [2] [3] [4] and the Alford doctrine, [5] [6] [7] is a guilty plea in criminal court, [8] [9] [10] whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence, but accepts imposition of a sentence.