‘Can you spell lynching?’: lawyer’s shocking note in Texas execution case | Texas

In April 1999, John Balentine, a Black man on trial for murder in Amarillo, Texas, sat before an all-white jury as they deliberated whether he should live or die. Should he be given a life sentence, in which case he would probably end his days behind prison bars? Or should they send him to death row to await execution? Balentine had been convicted days earlier of murdering three white teenagers who had threatened to kill him because he was romantically engaged with one of the teenagers’ white sisters – an interracial liaison widely frowned upon in heavily segregated Amarillo. Now…

Idaho murders update: Kaylee Goncalves’ family lawyer appeals to gag order in Bryan Kohberger case

The attorney for the University of Idaho stabbing victim Kaylee Goncalves’s family has filed an appeal of a Latah County judge’s gag order regarding the case against her suspected killer, Bryan Kohberger. The order is “facially overbroad and vague” and unconstitutional, Goncalves family attorney Shanon Gray wrote in an appeal filed Friday. Judge Megan Marshall issued the initial gag order Jan. 3, shortly after Kohberger’s arrest, restricting comments from prosecutors, the defense, law enforcement and other officials. On Jan. 18, she expanded the scope of her order, restricting attorneys for the victims and their families from speaking with the media.…

Civil rape case against Donald Trump begins in Manhattan court

E. Jean Carroll’s accusation that Donald Trump raped her was not a “he said, she said” dispute, a lawyer representing the writer said as a civil trial over the former US president’s conduct nearly three decades ago got underway. Shawn Crowley, who represents the former Elle magazine advice columnist, said during her opening statement on Tuesday that Trump “slammed Ms. Carroll against the wall” and “pressed his lips to hers,” an account that other witnesses were prepared to verify. “This is not a ‘he said, she said’ case,” Crowley said in federal court in Manhattan. Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for…

Ex-prosecutor warns Trump to get a new lawyer over potential “conflict of interest” in Stormy case

Stormy Daniels, whose hush-money payment is at the center of the ongoing Manhattan investigation into former President Donald Trump, handed over communications between her and Trump’s lawyer to District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Wednesday, according to CNN. The communications between her and Joe Tacopina are said to date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking legal representation. Her lawyer, Clark Brewster, said Daniels had disclosed confidential information to Tacopina about her situation involving the former president. This has raised questions as to whether the attorney could be sidelined from his defense of Trump in the hush money case. “[The…

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT: A BARRIER TO PUBLIC HEALTH?

“With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe” Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed The virus has now spread over the globe, causing tremendous physical, financial and social breakdown on every continent, nation, state, province and individual. This terrible predicament has come from the spread of the catastrophic and disastrous corona virus disease. As future and current apparatus, medications, treatments, and science must be made available to the medical community, intellectual property regimes have become a concern not only in India but around the world. Normally, IPR holders are afforded exemption from third-party use of their intellectual property…