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The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994.
In one recent California case, a felony conviction for animal cruelty could theoretically net a 25-year to a life sentence due to their three-strikes law, which increases sentences based on prior felony convictions. [127] In 2003, West Hollywood, California, passed an ordinance banning declawing of house cats. [128]
As the latest addition in the list of criminalizing Muslim countries, Brunei's has implemented penalty for homosexuals within Sharia Penal Code in stages since 2014. It prescribes death by stoning as punishment for sex between men, [133] and sex between women is punishable by caning or imprisonment. The sultanate currently has a moratorium in ...
The first modern Siamese law, the Penal Code, was promulgated in 1908. [69] Compilation of modern Siamese law would take nearly four decades, only to be finished in 1935. Spheres of influence abandoned by Siam to Western powers from 1785 to 1909, shown as a map of territorial losses
The empire decided to create a new penal code after observing the passing of the French Penal Code of 1810. [4] The French Code of 1810 was a source, but the code of 1858 was most closely adapted from the French Penal Code of 1832. [5] The code of 1858 is relevant because it started the separation between religion and the law.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. [a] The Republican Party's ticket—Donald Trump, who was the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and JD Vance, the junior U.S. senator from Ohio—defeated the Democratic Party's ticket—Kamala Harris, the incumbent vice president, and Tim Walz, the 41st governor of Minnesota.