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Seattle city attorney wants to prosecute drug cases after state law passes

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Seattle elected officials are considering whether the city should take on the responsibility of prosecuting public drug use and possession charges, amid a new state law and a rising substance use crisis. City Attorney Ann Davison is asking the City Council to approve a bill classifying public drug use and drug possession as gross misdemeanors, which would give the city attorney’s office the authority to prosecute both charges. In a special session on Tuesday, state legislators passed a bill that changes drug possession to a gross misdemeanor and criminalizes public use, after the Legislature failed to agree on a replacement…
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An Art Collector Is Suing His Former Attorney For Allegedly Stealing a $5 Million Andy Warhol Painting

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The New York art collector Stuart Pivar has filed a lawsuit against his lawyer for allegedly stealing an Andy Warhol painting after an unconventional deal. The complaint, filed April 17 in New York Supreme Court, says that Pivar sold a 1977 Warhol painting of himself—Porbit of Stuart Pivar—last year to his one-time attorney, Mitchell Cantor. The lawyer paid $100,000 for the piece, despite Pivar estimating it to be worth $5 million. When contacted by Artnet News, Pivar explained that he needed cash fast at the time, but could not recall why: “I needed it for something very, very important, whatever…
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Jonathan Majors’ attorney provides purported texts from woman in alleged assault

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CNN — An attorney for actor Jonathan Majors has shared text messages she says came from the woman her client allegedly assaulted last weekend. Majors, who recently starred in “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” was arranged on Sunday on assault and harassment charges after a domestic dispute in New York, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The complaint against Majors does not name the female accuser but states he struck “her about the face with an open hand, causing substantial pain and a laceration behind her ear.” It also claims he “put his hand on her…