Associated PressDecember 26, 2019
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Suggests using Bill Clinton trial as template
Tag: trial
Associated PressDecember 26, 2019Associated PressDecember 24, 2019
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Roberts will preside over the Senate trial of President Donald Trump.
Associated PressDecember 23, 2019
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There’s no way she can hold this position, official predicts
Scott PowersDecember 13, 2019
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Demings contends McConnell cannot take an oath of impartiality.
Michael MolineNovember 15, 2018
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A company that provides cybersecurity training at the Navy’s Joint Cyber Analysis Course in Pensacola will get a trial on its claims that four employees violated an agreement not to seek work with other subcontractors at the school. The 1st District Court of Appeal reached that conclusion this week, overturning Circuit Judge John Miller of Pensacola. Miller accepted […]
Staff ReportsAugust 21, 2018
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4:40 p.m. Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty of eight financial crime charges in the first trial victory for special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. A judge declared a mistrial on 10 other counts after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The jury deliberated for four days before announcing the verdict […]
Jim RosicaMay 29, 2018
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Saying “this madness has to end,” Orlando attorney John Morgan called on Gov. Rick Scott to drop the hastily-filed appeal of a decision allowing medical marijuana to be smoked in Florida. Morgan spoke at a Tuesday news conference that was streamed live on Facebook. In a 22-page order released Friday, Tallahassee Circuit Judge Karen Gievers said […]
Jim RosicaMay 26, 2018
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Quoting George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, a Florida judge has ruled that the state’s ban on smoking medical marijuana is unconstitutional. In a 22-page order released Friday, Circuit Judge Karen Gievers said that the ban on smoking is “invalid because it conflicts” with the constitutional amendment on medicinal cannabis approved by statewide voters in 2016. A one-day […]
Jim RosicaMay 16, 2018
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It’s now up to a Tallahassee judge whether the Legislature overstepped when it outlawed the smoking of medical marijuana. Attorneys for the state and patients who want to smoke the drug squared off in a Leon County courtroom Wednesday before Circuit Judge Karen Gievers. She didn’t immediately rule after the close of evidence, but could issue a decision […]
Jim RosicaOctober 12, 2017
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The House’s ethics panel on Thursday set a Dec. 4 hearing on a charge that Democratic Miami-Dade Rep. Daisy Baez doesn’t live in the district she was elected to represent. The Public Integrity and Ethics Committee will conduct an evidentiary hearing “somewhat like a court trial,” said chair Larry Metz, a Yalaha Republican. “You’re trying to […]