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Attorney for woman in viral Citi Bike fight video says argument has nothing to do with race

May 20, 2023

NEW YORK — A fight over a Citi Bike last week has exploded on social media, and now an attorney for the woman in the video is fighting the claims circulating online. Her attorney says she’s been unfairly branded, as he puts it, as a “Karen.” Sarah Jane Comrie, a physician’s assistant, says she had just ended her shift at Bellevue Hospital in Kips Bay and was ready to pick up the Citi Bike she says she reserved, but both she and a young Black man claimed the same bike outside the hospital . In a video, Comrie can be…

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Attorney says Ralph Yarl’s prognosis is ‘very, very positive’

April 19, 2023

Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black teenager who has garnered national attention after being shot in the head in Kansas City after reportedly ringing the doorbell at the wrong house, has a “positive” prognosis in recovering from his injuries, according to his attorney. Attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing the Yarl family, told CNN on Tuesday that Yarl’s prognosis was “very, very positive,” adding that Yarl’s recovery was a miracle. He said that the teenager is expected to make a full recovery, besides scarring and potentially Post Traumatic Brain Injury symptoms in the long term. “Thursday night, doctors were scraping off…

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Police ‘were wrong about that’

April 5, 2023

Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, arrested Sunday by McKinney police for obstructing a highway/passageway and carrying a gun during the commission of that crime, said after a conversation with an officer, he understood he could enter the road and therefore should not have been arrested or charged with a gun crime. Merritt said he was there in a legal capacity, walking on the sidewalk while some protesters obstructed traffic on US 380 in McKinney. He said he spoke with a nearby officer, then entered the road to inform the protest organizer, Lachay Batts, that the arrests were imminent. “The officer…

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More funds head to Minn. attorney general, public defender

March 20, 2023

st. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Millions of extra dollars are working their way through the Minnesota Legislature to both beef up the ability of Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office to prosecute violent crime and the state’s public defender system to relieve the staffing shortages that nearly led to a last strike year. Ellison assembled the team that got former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2021, but the Democratic attorney general had been unable for four years to persuade a divided Legislature to give him more money to hire more prosecutors. Now that Democrats control both…

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Texas attorney shot by Cheney during 2006 hunting trip dies | News, Sports, Jobs

extremeFebruary 7, 2023

FILE – Austin, Texas, attorney Harry Whittington steps out to talk with members of the media, Feb. 17, 2006, in front of Christus Spohn Corpus Christi Hospital-Memorial. Whittington, the man who then-Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot while they were hunting quail on a Texas ranch 17 years earlier, died Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, in Austin, family friend Karl Rove said Monday, Feb. 6. He was 95. (AP Photo/Paul Iverson, File) Harry Whittington, the man who former Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot while they were hunting quail on a Texas ranch 17 years ago, has…

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Attorneys, advocates seek stay of execution for Missouri man

extremeFebruary 7, 2023

An attorney for Raheem Taylor is urging the US Supreme Court to halt a “constitutionally intolerable event” — the potential execution of an innocent man Tuesday evening. Taylor, 58, is scheduled to die at the state prison Bonne Terre, Missouri, for the killings of his live-in girlfriend and her three young children nearly two decades ago. Attorney Kent Gipson’s motion asks the Supreme Court to grant a stay of execution and appoint a special master to review Taylor’s innocence claim. A similar request to the Missouri Supreme Court was turned aside late Monday. The Midwest Innocence Project, the national NAACP…