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Recent Examples of drumhead court-martial
And men like Lang Long, a Cambodian who was trafficked and sold into the Thai fishing industry, are modern-day Billy Budds in a system that lacks even the rough justice of a drumhead court-martial.
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Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
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The president has the power to grant clemency only for federal offenses, not state or local ones, and may pardon someone convicted in a U.S. District Court, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or a military court-martial.Joedy McCreary, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Dec. 2024
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The president has the power to grant clemency only for federal offenses – but not state or local ones – and may pardon someone convicted in a U.S. district court, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or a military court-martial.Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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The high court ruled in that federal case that a federal civil lawsuit dealing with a sitting president's unofficial conduct could go forward during that presidency.Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Alito was also referring to a similar case involving the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Northern Virginia that the high court declined to take in February.Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Still, the state supreme court this month ruled his attorneys had failed to prove that anything has changed since the inmate was deemed competent.Dakin Andone, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a Hawaii man's appeal of his prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license, leaving untouched a state supreme court decision that castigated its new framework for determining whether gun laws comport with the Second Amendment.Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2024
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That's because these violations are treated differently in immigration court than in criminal court: Criminal courts exclude evidence that was unconstitutionally obtained, limiting the proverbial fruit from a poisonous tree.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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Prior to Thursday’s hearing — which was moved from general sessions court to criminal court, The Tennessean reported, forecasting an end to the case — the charges against Wallen were reduced from low-level felonies to two two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment without a weapon.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
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