The Federalist Society's Professional Responsibility Practice Group hosted this panel discussion on The Role of Government Attorneys and the Global War on Terror at the 2009 National Lawyers Convention on Thursday, November 12, 2009. Panelists included Mr. Miguel A. Estrada of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP; Prof. W. Bradley Wendel of Cornell University Law School; and Judge Diane S. Sykes of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Part 5 of 10
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Renown San Francisco criminal law attorney Ephraim Margolin has extensive experience appealing wrongful criminal convictions because of improper jury selection or jury instructions, prosecutorial misconduct, improper admission, and exclusion of evidence or lack of sufficient evidence.
Today, the Baku Appeals Court heard an appeal filed against the 25 August 2011 ruling on the imprisonment of 6 opposition activists. Lawyer Anar Gasimli told Objective TV that the Judge partially changed the August 25th judgment, reducing two years of imprisonment for Musavat party activist Elshan Hasanov to 1 year due to Hasanov's health issues. The sentences for the other 5 prisoners were upheld and the appeal for acquittal was not granted. On August 25, 2011, Sabail District Court sentenced Arif Alishli to 3 years in jail, Elnur Israfilov to 2.5, Sahib Karimov and Elshan Hasanov to 2, and Babak Hasanov and Zulfugar Aslanli to 1.5 years in jail for violating public order and intentionally damaging property. The Judge also fined Israfilov and Alishli 1325 AZN each for allegedly damaging a bus.
"Pharmacological enhancement of empathy and altruism" needed to address climate change Paul Joseph Watson www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv twitter.com www.facebook.com Tuesday, March 13, 2012 A new paper to be published in Ethics, Policy & Environment argues that serious consideration should be given to mass drugging the population to make them more environmentally conscious while also proposing that babies should be genetically engineered to be smaller in order to reduce their carbon footprints. In an interview with The Atlantic the lead author of the paper, New York University bioethics professor S. Matthew Liao, argues that humans need to be be subjected to "biomedical modifications" in order to help combat climate change. Followed to their logical conclusion, Liao's proposals outstrip anything Aldous Huxley wrote about in Brave New World, a 1932 dystopian novel about a future scientific dictatorship that seeks to drug, genetically manipulate, and medically induce humanity into complete slavish subservience. Expressing regret that carbon taxes will do nothing to reduce carbon emissions, Liao suggests other methods, including "pharmacologically induced meat intolerance" where people would take drugs which would trigger extreme nausea or wear patches that would "stimulate the immune system to reject common bovine proteins." In order to reduce an individual's "carbon footprint" and make sure they consume less, Liao suggests that a policy similar but more flexible to ...
Alex Jones' latest documentary shatters the hoax of the terrorism, revealing instead that government is history's greatest killer. Now a 21st century technocratic global corporate tyranny seeks to kill billions with the superweapons it has created under a police state control grid and through the central banking warfare model it brought to life. This documentary is another powerful tool in exposing the false threats used by the elite to control us-- powerful because it casts an even greater light on their own dangerous megalomaniacal quest for total power. www.infowars.com
2 activists for prop 8 talk about the family being the center of our society while a gay man challenge them. (12-06) 18:10 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- The federal appeals court in the Proposition 8 case hinted Monday at a ruling that would allow gays and lesbians to marry in California while leaving other states' laws intact - a restrained approach seemingly designed to appeal to the US Supreme Court. Lawyers challenging the 2008 initiative urged the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to uphold a federal judge's ruling in August that Prop. 8 violated the US Constitution because its definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman discriminated on the basis of gender and sexual orientation. But in a nationally televised, 2 1/2-hour hearing, the three-judge appellate panel seemed intent on framing the case more narrowly before it reaches the Supreme Court. Judges Michael Hawkins and Stephen Reinhardt compared the case to a 1996 Supreme Court ruling overturning a Colorado initiative that prohibited local governments from enacting civil rights laws protecting gays and lesbians. Without deciding whether the Constitution banned all anti-gay discrimination, the high court said stripping rights from a minority group, for no apparent reason other than moral disapproval, was unconstitutional. What's different? Hawkins noted that California voters approved Prop. 8 six months after the state Supreme Court ruled that gays and lesbians had the right to marry. "How is ...
On June 29, 2009, VR, along with Kevin Zeese, held a press conference announcing the filing of Bar complaints against two lawyers, John Rizzo and Jonathan Fredman in the DC Appeals Court. Please see www.disbartorturelawyers.com for more information.
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Watch a clip of Special Prosecutor Emily Laube speaking to three judges of the 5th District Court of Appeals during the oral arguments in the Marsha Mills murder trial at the Tuscarawas County Courthouse on Sept. 3. Laube is representing the State of Ohio. In this clip, she is responding to Attorney Richard Parsons of Kravitz, Brown and Dortch, LLC, who was discussing a juror's questionnaire. Parsons is representing Marsha Mills. More information on this story can be read in the Sept. 4 addition of The Times-Reporter. Video and editing by Julie Watts
The ACS Maryland Lawyer Chapter hosted a panel of judges to discuss their path to becoming a judge and the importance of a diverse bench. Panelists included: Moderator, Renée Hutchins, Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Law; Judge Andre M. Davis, US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Judge Brian G. Kim, Montgomery County District Court; Judge Kendra A. Ausby, Baltimore City Circuit Court.
www.instablogs.com OFW beheaded in Jeddah The beheading by sword of an Overseas Filipino Worker convicted of killing a Saudi national is utterly horrendous. This despite appeals made by the lawyer hired by the Philippine consulate general in Jeddah and the requests sent twice by President Arroyo to the Saudi king asking clemency for Bidoya. The Saudi king refused clemency to Bidoya on the grounds that the victim's family was adamant in refusing to forgive Bidoya, and insisted on their right to the imposition of equivalent penalty. Our condolences to the bereaved family. However, at the same time, it needs to be pointed out that death penalty is a symptom of a culture of violence. By refusing to pardon the offender, the family has failed to show mercy of which Prophet Mohammad was an embodiment. How can such cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and a violation of the right to life be compatible with faith and Islam? One fails to understand.
Call 1-800-667-5734 or visit the premiere Social Security website at: www.SocialSecurityDisability.com. How long does it take to get SSD SSI Benefits? The Social Security Administration or SSA does have special provisions to speed up a case in which a person is terminally ill; these cases can be speeded up quite rapidly but given the amount of time to process the checks and so forth it is very unlikely that a person can receive a check in probably less than about two months. But how long does a typical case take? The answer is it depends on which level of this appeal process the case is won. At the initial level, I would say that people sometimes fairly frequently get checks within four or five months of the date of their SSI / SSD application. Now what happens if you have to go to a hearing with a social Security Disability Judge? The answer to how long really depends on a number of factors. There are approximately a thousand Social Security Judges in the country with probably a hundred and twenty five or more offices. These various offices all have backlogs. So how long does it take to get to a hearing? Some of the cases in some states you can get to a hearing in maybe seven or eight months after your application. In other parts of the country where the Judges are very far behind you could be talking about two and a half or three years. So how long it takes depends on a lot of factors including unfortunately in what part of the country you happen to live. The best way ...
There's a common notion that a person is innocent until proven guilty, hence it could be clearly seen that a crucial part of the conviction of a person is in providing substantive evidence and also witnesses. Though many have made thorough preparations for before their conviction, many defendants still fall victim to wrong rulings. The subsequent step that may follow for many of these defendants is to seek for an appeal. A criminal appeal is simply a process where the conviction passed on by a lower court is made to be reviewed by a higher court and is prevalently known to involve criminal appeallawyers.
Why seek for an appeal?
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Defendants are often left in dismay after they're wrongfully convicted, but they should be informed of the common errors that could happen in court that has led to their wrong rulings:
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• Overlooking of evidence is not uncommon in court hearings, where the defense evidence is not heard by the jury. Even though an appeal may not admit to new evidence but it could overcome the negligence of substantial evidence as the case as the proofs are being represented.
• In the process of presenting the case, the court has to grant permission for attorneys to provide evidence in court. There are times when such authority is not appropriately exercise and leads to a false judgment by the jury.
• A previous attorney could have erred in the presenting that case in court and deprived the defendant from attaining an effective assistance of counsel, where the case was not properly defended on behalf of the client.
Finding a lawyer
Before requesting for an appeal, a crucial step that should always come to mind is to find aid in criminal appeallawyers. As previously mentioned, defendants are not allowed to bring up new evidence in court, so there lies the utmost importance on giving out substantial and relevant statements when representing the defendant's case. New light has to be shed on the case, but many defendants find it hard to continue testifying after having to bear the name of being convicted. Hence, a criminal lawyer could step in to assist the defendant as they're once again placed in court.
Criminal appeallawyer are not only trained to handle the different proceedings that will undergo in the higher court, but they also have the added edge of being able to contest the verdict. When finding an appropriate lawyer, they're portfolio should always be reviewed to see if they're experienced in handling such cases. Other than their past records, attorney fees have to be discussed to ensure that they're reasonable; inquiries could be made with different agencies to understand the common charges when hiring the services of such attorney. Lastly, having a lawyer is not a solution in itself. Clients are always advised to cooperate with their attorneys either by remaining silent in court or reviewing through evidence which were previously brought to court.
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Have you ever wondered why they could not find the body of missing and murdered Battered woman Carrie Culberson's When they went digging for her under the pole barn in May of 2004? ---- This video will tell you why they did not find Carrie then. Update Aug. 6th 2010 Appeals court: Lawsuit over mess made in hunt for body can continue. Sheriff's deputies didn't find what they were looking for 6 years ago when they dug a huge hole in Jeanette Spangler's barn. But they did make a big mess trying to find it. The damage included a demolished concrete floor, a water-filled hole that was 15 feet deep, a ruined septic system and piles of dirt that smothered vehicles and equipment around her Perry Township property. "It was like a war zone," said Spangler's lawyer, John Scaccia. "It was like they were fighting al-Qaeda out there." Spangler, who demanded compensation in a 2006 lawsuit, won a federal appeals court decision Friday that allows her case against the sheriffs of Brown and Clermont counties to go forward. The decision by the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati could leave Clermont County Sheriff AJ "Tim" Rodenberg and Brown County Sheriff Dwayne Wenninger on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in repairs if Spangler wins her case. Rodenberg, Wenninger and their lawyers could not be reached Friday, but they previously have said they did nothing wrong and made every effort to minimize damage to Spangler's property. The dispute arose in early 2004 when ...
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On the Wednesday, February 29 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with Foster and Kimberly Gamble about Thrive, their two-hour long documentary that explores the "global consolidation of money and power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, Thrive offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future." Thrive is now available at the Infowars Store. www.infowarsshop.com twitter.com www.thrivemovement.com www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv
In this clip we follow Judge Sotomayors rise from an ambitious Assistant District Attorney, to a Trial Judge and finally to an Appeals Judge. We speak to Cesar Perales, her friend and President of PRLDEF (the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund), who describes Judge Sotomayors jurisprudence.
Petitions: www.change.org www.facebook.com www.petitionspot.com www.debbiemilke.com PHOENIX (AP) — Debra Jean Milke has been sitting on Arizona's death row for nearly 20 years, largely because a police detective said she confessed to plotting her 4-year-old son's murder. Debra Jean Milke testifying during her trial on murder charges in Arizona in 1990. Now Ms. Milke could get a new trial, and even her freedom, because the detective skipped one of the most basic steps when officers interview suspects — getting them to sign a Miranda waiver, giving up their right to remain silent. "You know, I have never seen a case where there has been no signed Miranda waiver," said Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, at a hearing on the case in August 2008. "I don't know any place in the civilized world in the last 30 years," he added, "where a state has found a waiver of constitutional rights without a signed waiver." Last month, Judge Kozinski and two other judges on the appeals court found that no evidence existed proving that Ms. Milke, 45, "voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently waived her rights" in the police interview in 1989. The judges ordered Judge Robert C. Broomfield of Federal District Court in Phoenix to conduct a hearing on that point and issue his findings by the end of November. The burden falls on prosecutors to prove that Ms. Milke waived her right to remain silent. If they cannot do so and Judge ...
The common misconception is that a federal criminal appeal is a retrial; another chance to hear and study the facts again. Any federal criminal appealslawyer would say that an appeal is so much different from a trial.
What is a federal criminal appeal?
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It is a direct appeal; a legal proceeding to review the judgment of a court and to check for legal errors. Clients who seek such appeals do so to challenge the decision of a court, which is usually a district court. There is little "talking" if anything, as the proceedings would practically involve writing. The lawyer of the appealing party shall submit guidelines that point out alleged legal errors during the district court proceedings. The attorney of the other party will submit briefs to respond to the assertions of the first lawyer.
Things You Need to Know About Criminal Appeals
There are no witnesses involved.
Appellate courts are different district courts in so many aspects. They are not courts of record, reporters, witnesses, and juries. These courts do not hear testimonies or pieces of evidence. What they do is tackle legal arguments after the pieces of evidence and testimonies have been presented in the district court. Then again, they may summon these items for the examination of the judges. However, only items originally presented in the district court shall be inspected. Appellate courts cannot accept new evidence or witnesses. A criminal lawyer should inform his client that records from the district court are already inflexible. The appeals court will not ask to alter the records in any way.
The process runs for several months.
Someone asking for federal criminal appeals should be informed about the slowness of the process. Some clients get frustrated after a few months, but they have to understand that federal courts deal with lots of cases. Courts do not make hasty decisions, too. They consider legal claims, and that takes time, although the process today may be a bit accelerated by technology. For instance, several appellate courts now accept briefings submitted online.
Even though judges can do legal research online, decision-making would still require them to thoroughly read and consider the arguments presented. As these people are human beings after all, the tasks they can handle are limited. Appellate judges may have assistants that handle paperwork and lawyers that handle usual cases. But the appeals courts still has to deal with hundreds of cases. Clients will have to be realistic and understanding. The slowness of actions is not because the judges are lazy, rather because they have to tackle previously filed appeals. Generally, cases run for a year.
Most appeals have been resolved without oral argument.
About 7 in 10 appeals cases were solved on the briefs. Briefings are written documents filed by the appealing party. A brief supplies both facts of the case and persuasive arguments pertaining to particular errors that the appealing party claims the district court has committed. Legal assertions should be supported by valid credentials. Mandates are essential in any appeal, and since appellate attorneys write them, it is important for them to have extensive legal research skills. More importantly, they have to possess persuasive legal writing abilities. This is why finding a good federal criminal appealslawyer is crucial to the success of criminal appeals.
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Everyone was stunned a few days ago when Attorney General Eric Holder intervened in gay couple's deportation case. The government was about to deport Paul Wilson Dorman, but at the last minute Holder told Board of Immigration Appeals to take a closer look at the case. That's made the complicated rules about separating bi-national LGBTs even more complicated. So we're going to talk to Lavi Solloway, the lawyer for another bi-national couple facing deportation. Henry Velandia and Josh Vandiver had an deportation hearing just one day after Holder's decision, but that decision changed everything. Lavi's going to take us inside the court and tell us exactly what happened.
nylaw.net New York Social Security Disability attorney Marc Strauss discusses a Social Security Disability case where his client beat all odds to win the case. After he represented his client at the initial hearing where the Administrative Law Judge denied the case, he appealed it many times. Finally, after 4 hearings, he was able to get a favorable result for his client. Watch the video now to learn more about how not giving up can result in a win. For more information about Social Security Disability law and our New York firm, visit our educational website where you can learn more about this case and more. If you have legal questions, I want you to call me at (718) 626-7730. I welcome your call. Pyrros & Serres, LLP 31-01 Broadway, 3rd Floor Long Island City, NY 11101 (718) 626-7730