Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Legal experts say it is only after exhausting those alternative sources of information that the Congressional committees would decide whether or not to compel Goodling's testimony, a step that involves several additional hurdles. To begin with, an immunity offer - presumably from the Senate or House Judiciary Committees - would require a two-thirds vote of those committees. That would mean Republicans as well as Democrats would have to support the move, hardly a given. However, Republicans might have a difficult time standing in the way of Goodling's testimony if it were portrayed by Democrats as essential part...
Dhrub Taneja ’07—the former president of the Harvard International Relations Council—said that the new report gives too much legal responsibility to group leaders...
...Texas state courts for those cases where graphic, disturbing evidence is often featured - homicide cases, sexual offenses, family-relations crimes such as child abuse. The bill, which would give additional funds to victims' assistance programs, is gaining support in the legislature. While victims' advocates and some members of the legal community, including judges and prosecutors, have pushed for counseling on an ad hoc basis, there has been little formal, funded support for post-trial jury counseling in most federal and state courts...
...year-old daughter Jennifer was killed by Colton Pitonyak, 22, a University of Texas finance major with a drug habit. Jennifer had dropped out of college, but was trying to get her own life back on track after some problems with drugs and had begun work as a legal assistant. After Jennifer failed to return home from a dinner out with Pitonyak, Sharon, a Corpus Christi small business owner, and her boyfriend, Jim Sedwick, drove to Austin and began the search. When a tip led them to Pitonyak's apartment, police declined to enter the locked door with no evidence...
...legal proceedings had divided Alabama, with law enforcement demanding justice and clergymen from the victimized churches pleading for mercy and forgiveness. One preacher, the Rev. Walter Hawkins, spoke in court with, he said, a "spirit of forgiveness. We love them and want them to come and visit us as soon as they finish their sentences." But Bibb County District Attorney Michael Jackson believed that full weight of justice still has to be imposed. The federal government may have exacted its due but Alabama had to get its hands on the trio to serve time under state law. That could mean...