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  2. List of exonerated death row inmates - Wikipedia

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    Illinois. Convicted 1979. The primary witness in the case, Phyllis Santini, was determined to be an accomplice of the actual killer by the Illinois Supreme Court. The Judge in the case, Thomas J. Maloney, was later convicted of accepting bribes. [117] [118] Juan Ramos, Florida. Convicted 1983. Acquitted on retrial in April 1987. [119]

  3. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    This case featured the first example of judicial review by the Supreme Court. Ware v. Hylton, 3 U.S. 199 (1796) A section of the Treaty of Paris supersedes an otherwise valid Virginia statute under the Supremacy Clause. This case featured the first example of judicial nullification of a state law. Fletcher v.

  4. Acquittal - Wikipedia

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    If the judgment is upon an acquittal, the defendant, indeed, will not seek to have it reversed, and the government cannot. U.S. v. Sanges, 144 U.S. 310 (1892). Ball v. U.S., 163 U.S. 662, 671 (1896) A verdict of acquittal, although not followed by any judgment, is a bar to a subsequent prosecution for the same offense. Ball, supra, at 672.

  5. List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 138

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    The change resulted in an immediate reduction in the Supreme Court's workload (from 623 cases filed in 1890 to 379 in 1891 and 275 in 1892). Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions. "# Cir." = United States Court of Appeals. e.g., "3d Cir." = United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

  6. Category:Criminal trials that ended in acquittal - Wikipedia

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    Criminal trials that ended in acquittal, meaning that the prosecution failed to prove that the accused was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the charge presented. See also: Category:People acquitted of crimes

  7. Unpaid O.J. Simpson civil judgment to be auctioned - AOL

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    Sharon Rufo listed the judgment Tuesday on JudgmentMarketplace.com with a ... Simpson has paid little of the $33.5 million he owes from the 1997 civil case. A jury acquitted him in 1995 of killing ...

  8. Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association - Wikipedia

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    Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, No. 16-476, 584 U.S. 453 (2018) [138 S. Ct. 1461], was a United States Supreme Court case involving the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The issue was whether the U.S. federal government has the right to control state lawmaking.

  9. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Kern County child abuse cases are a notable example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria of the 1980s. [119] The cases involved claims that a pedophile sex ring performed Satanic ritual abuse: as many as 60 young children testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years imprisoned. 34 convictions were ...