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A federal grand jury in Billings returned an indictment on May 20 charging a Montana man with hate crime and firearm violations for allegedly firing a gun into an individual’s house and threatening the individual with violent, homophobic slurs.
By Michael LucianoMay 3rd, 2021, 5:09 pm A former restaurant manager who enslaved a cognitively impaired Black man between 2009 and 2014 should pay his victim double the restitution that had been originally determined, says the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Pursuant to a plea deal struck with federal prosecutors in 2019, Bobby Paul Edwards, now 56, agreed to pay John Christopher Smith, now 43, $273,000 in unpaid wages and overtime in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. Edwards was sentenced to 10-years in prison as part of the deal. The enslavement began in 2009 when Ed...
Messenger KUWAIT CITY, April 27: The Criminal Section in the Court of Cassation, headed by Judge Nayef Al-Dahoum, sentenced former Deputy Secretary-General of the SalafiMovement Dr Hakim Al-Mutairi to life imprisonment in absentia in a State Security case dubbed as ‘Gaddafi’s tent leaks’, reports Al-Seyassah daily. Earlier, the State Security Unit at the Ministry of Interior referred Al-Mutairi to the Public Prosecution in relation to information leakage involving former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi. Al-Mutairi faced several State Security charges, such as spreading false news and ...
DOJ Civil Rights Alums Back Kristen Clarke Ahead Of Ugly Confirmation Battle More than 80 former officials are supporting the nomination of Kristen Clarke, a longtime civil rights lawyer who would be the first woman confirmed to the job. More than 80 former Justice Department civil rights officials are backing the nomination of Kristen Clarke to head the storied Civil Rights Division, a key role that will shape the Biden administration’s agenda on issues like policing and voting rights in the next four years and beyond. Clarke, who began her career at the Justice Department and could become...
In an October 2020 judgment the Civil and Criminal Section of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid largely dismissed the brief of appeal filed by the defendant against the convictional judgment, by which the Provincial Court of Madrid had sentenced him to a two-year prison sentence, a fine and payment of the damage compensation and legal costs of private prosecution for the commercialisation of products that infringed Adidas's Community trademarks and designs.