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Institutional abuse is the maltreatment of someone (often children or older adults) by a system of power. [4] This can range from acts similar to home-based child abuse, such as neglect, physical and sexual abuse, to the effects of assistance programs working below acceptable service standards, or relying on harsh or unfair ways to modify behavior.
South Carolina Judge Carmen Mullen defended herself in a statement to media Wednesday after a police report suggested she used her influence to arrest a man. ... SC judge calls abuse of power ...
Former U.S. District Judge John Gleeson was appointed by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in a special role to weigh in on the case. Ex-judge says push to dismiss Flynn case is ‘abuse of power ...
“The now-released secret transcripts of the grand jury proceedings in the Jeffrey Epstein case indicate a reprehensible abuse of power by prosecutors,” the Democrat from West Palm Beach said ...
Samuel B. Kent (born June 22, 1949) [1] is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, whose term ended in resignation in 2009 following charges of sexual abuse. Kent served in the single-judge Galveston Division covering Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, and Matagorda Counties.
On August 15, 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury, but has since been cleared on all charges. [1] [2] [3] The first charge of the indictment was abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funding for the Public Integrity Unit, a state public corruption prosecutors department.
They concluded that “the judge’s impartiality cannot reasonably be questioned based on the judge’s relative’s business and ... Nellis called the subpoena “yet another abuse of power, ...
Peck was impeached by the United States House of Representatives on April 24, 1830, on a charge of abuse of the contempt power. [4] The United States Senate began his impeachment trial on April 26, 1830, and acquitted him on January 31, 1831, with 21 voting guilty and 22 voting not guilty. [3] [5] [4]