Paris native Nick Stallings is to join the Lamar County District Attorneyâs Office this week as an assistant district attorney.
A 2008 Paris High School graduate, Stallings received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Texas in 2011 and a law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 2015.
He worked for Moore Law Firm during the summers while in high school, and he has been an associate of the firm for almost six years.
âI tried to hire Nick a few years ago, but he had commitments he could not leave,â Lamar County District Attorney Gary Young said about his new assistant district attorney. âWith his felony trial skills and people skills, he is going to be a huge asset in this office. I am looking forward to trying cases with him, and watching him grow as a trial lawyer.â
(This story was updated on May 5, 2021, to correct John Treat s title and the course he teaches.)
On June 5, 1934, key members of Adolf Hitler s administration gathered in the German capital of Berlin to begin discussing what would eventually become the Nuremberg Laws two laws implemented the following year to suppress first Nazi Germany s Jewish, and soon also its Romani and Black, populations. One of them, the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, forbade among other things marriage and extramarital intercourse between German citizens and Jews.
At the meeting, several Nazi bureaucrats cited the work of a young lawyer named Heinrich Krieger, newly returned from his year studying abroad in the United States at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville. There, he researched how laws across the U.S. segregated and disenfranchised Native Americans, African Americans, and other non-white groups a legal model the Nazis looked to as a way to contro
UI honors recipients of 104th Hancher-Finkbine Medallions and Distinguished Student Leader certificates
UI honors recipients of 104th Hancher-Finkbine Medallions and Distinguished Student Leader certificates Photo courtesy of Student Life Marketing + Design.
By: Division of Student Life | 2021.04.21 | 02:04 pm
University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni received some of the institution’s highest honors on April 20 at the 104th Finkbine Dinner. Vice President for Student Life Sarah Hansen and UI President Bruce Harreld presented the awards, including the Hancher-Finkbine Medallions and Distinguished Student Leader certificates.
Hancher-Finkbine Medallions recognizing leadership, learning, and loyalty were presented to students Pavane Gorrepati, Adam Lorenzana, Jocelyn Roof, and Noah Wick; accounting faculty member Daniel Collins; staff member Valerie Garr; and alumna Cynthia Nance.
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A 2019 federal report indicates 95% of American prosecutions of human trafficking involve sex trafficking. Labor trafficking is also a problem, if underprosecuted. Annie Smith, associate professor of law and director of the public service and pro bono program at the University of Arkansas School of Law, has studied and written about labor trafficking. Her article The Underprosecutionof Labor Trafficking appeared in a recent issue of South Carolina Law Review.
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On Sunday, a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright, an unarmed Black man, after pulling him over for hanging an air freshener from his rearview mirror. Wright’s death is just the latest instance of police assaulting and killing drivers specifically, Black men who pose no danger following a routine traffic stop. Philando Castile, Walter Scott, and Sam DuBose were all shot and killed by police after a traffic stop; none of them posed any danger to the officers who took their lives.
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Racism surely plays a role here, but there is another reason so many appalling police shootings involve motorists: Law enforcement officers are taught that routine traffic stops pose extreme danger to their own lives. Courts have seized upon this idea to water down the constitutional rights of drivers, justifying police brutality on the grounds that officers must act quickly to protect themselves against the random violence that always lurks just around the corner.