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Minnesota’s governors’ 19th Century unrestricted power to pardon

MinnPost 24 Mar 2025
Gorman did so at the urging of the trial judge, who wrote that the jury had simply got the case wrong ... Why and when should the governor overturn the lawful actions of a judge and jury? The question resists resolution.
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Greenpeace ordered to pay nearly $700M for damages during Dakota Access Pipeline protest

Aberdeen News 21 Mar 2025
The nine-person jury delivered a verdict in favor of Energy Transfer on most counts ... A jury verdict form with the exact total was not immediately available ... He asked the jury to award Energy Transfer that amount plus additional punitive damages.
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Jury finds Greenpeace at fault for damages during Dakota Access Pipeline protest

Argus Leader 19 Mar 2025
The nine-person jury delivered a verdict in favor of Energy Transfer on most counts ... A jury verdict form with the exact total was not immediately available ... He asked the jury to award Energy Transfer that amount plus additional punitive damages.
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Jury finds Greenpeace at fault for protest damages, awards pipeline developer hundreds of millions

The Daily Republic 19 Mar 2025
The nine-person jury delivered a verdict in favor of Energy Transfer on most counts ... A jury verdict form with the exact total was not immediately available ... The jury found Greenpeace USA liable for almost all claims.
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Jury: Greenpeace liable for Dakota Access protest damages

The Gazette Cedar Rapids 19 Mar 2025
— A Morton County, N.D., jury on Wednesday ordered Greenpeace to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline, finding that the environmental group incited illegal behavior by protesters and defamed the company.
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Retired Philadelphia detectives go on trial in perjury case stemming from 2016 murder exoneration

Bangor Daily News 18 Mar 2025
They came back for Louise Talley,” defense lawyer Brian McMonagle told the jury Tuesday, referring to the 77-year-old victim ... The jury quickly acquitted Wright ... However, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has so far declined their petition to intervene.
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Polk County jury spares the life of convicted double-murderer Beloni Petit-Frere

News Chief 14 Mar 2025
On March 4, the same jury had convicted Petit-Frere of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Timothy Anderson, 40, and Leslee Umpleby, 49, on Oct ... by the jury for the second murder.
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Karen Read’s bid to toss murder charge is denied by Massachusetts federal judge: ‘Any jury ...

Boston Herald 14 Mar 2025
“Re-prosecution is barred because there was no manifest necessity to declare a mistrial on counts on which the jury was not deadlocked,” Read’s federal petition reads ... “Any jury vote here was not final,” Saylor added.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to appear in federal court Friday

CNN 14 Mar 2025
Attorneys for Combs have petitioned for jury selection to start on that date, with opening statements to follow on May 13. Prosecutors want jury selection begin on April 21.
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ANTONIO JACKSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Maryland Daily Record 11 Mar 2025
Criminal law — Writ of actual innocence — Coram nobis petition On November 8, 1993, following trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, a jury found Antonio Jackson, appellant, ... .
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Wendy Williams gets promising news from psychiatric evaluation on dementia diagnosis amid guardianship fight | ...

The Daily Mail 11 Mar 2025
Williams' new attorney planned to petition the judge the following day to end her guardianship, and if they don't the attorney will request a jury trial to determine if it should be ended; seen in 2019 in Hollywood.
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Wendy Williams to make first national TV appearance since dementia diagnosis amid guardianship battle | ...

The Daily Mail 09 Mar 2025
Williams' new attorney planned to petition the judge the following day to end her guardianship, and if they don't the attorney will request a jury trial to determine if it should be ended; seen in 2019 in Hollywood.
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Lake County’s top prosecutor says detective lied on witness stand in murder case

Chicago Sun-Times 07 Mar 2025
A hearing on the petition is scheduled for next month ... She was shown a photo of Williford before she testified to a grand jury and her identifications of Williford from later photo arrays were unfairly “suggestive,” the joint petition says.
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Beloni Petit-Frere guilty in 2020 Winter Haven double murder. Faces possible death penalty

The Ledger 05 Mar 2025
A Polk County jury found Beloni Petit-Frere guilty on Tuesday of the brutal 2020 stabbing deaths of a former girlfriend and the man who was with her at a Winter Haven motel. The same jury will now be ...
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Exonerated after 24 years in prison, man sues Evanston police, saying they coerced confession

Chicago Tribune 05 Mar 2025
The suit asks a jury to award damages in recompense for Drew’s wrongful arrest and prosecution, and the near quarter century he spent in prison for a murder, according to his attorneys ... “Juries ...
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