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Monday 22nd of July 2024

Criminal justice Actor sent to jail for not finishing sentence headline, News Sentinel [Knoxville, Tenn.], January 21, 1989 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice Alternative to jail is working in Albany headline, Daily Gazette [Schenectady, New York], February 6, 1998 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice Before trial begins in this case, prospective members of the jury will have the opportunity to cast their vote for president. It is in the ballot box where they are free to judge Mr. Trump based on all this and more. Donald Trump's lawyers justifying his request to prevent jurors at his upcoming trial for fraud related to Trump University from hearing evidence based on: recordings of campaign events, his tweets, his speeches, his tax returns, his charity, his beauty pageants, his casinos, his alleged sexual misconduct, his corporate bankruptcies, or the students' finances © 2016 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice The Court had two very different ideas about proportionality of punishment: one for corporations under the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and another for people under the Eighth Amendment. The Due Process Clause, it said, did not allow a jury to punish one of the world's wealthiest companies with a punitive damages award of $145 million, which was equal to 0.29 percent of its annual revenue — barely enough to get the attention of the company's leadership. The Eighth Amendment did, however, allow California to put a thirty-seven-year-old Army veteran and father who engaged in minor shoplifting behind bars until he was at least eighty-seven. Adam Cohen, Supreme Inequality © 2021 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice Defendant's speech ends in long sentence headline, Minneapolis Tribune, February 25, 1981 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice How about we go back to [Paul] Manafort? Breaking into his house. What is he, a drug dealer? Rudy Giuliani, on the Mueller investigation and  courtesies owed to white collar criminals, Sean Hannity interview, May 2, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice I would say, in listening to the charges from the judge, who’s, as you know, very conflicted, and corrupt, because of the confliction, very very corrupt,  Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. These charges are rigged. Donald Trump, May 29, 2024, predicting he'll be convicted in his hush money/election interference trial not because the evidence is overwhelming and he's guilty as charged, but because the system and judge are corrupt, not him  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice In Kentucky, fully one quarter of the prisoners on death row had lawyers at trial who were later  disbarred or resigned to avoid disbarment. As one critic said, the Strickland [v. Washington ] standard, in the real world, requires the state to provide little more than “a warm body with a law degree.” Adam Cohen, Supreme Inequality © 2021 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of  shares and cash from Trump’s media company. The benefits have flowed from Trump’s businesses and campaign committees, according to a ProPublica analysis of public  disclosures, court records and securities filings. …  To prove witness tampering, prosecutors would  need to show that perks or punishments were  intended to influence testimony. … ProPublica did not find evidence that Trump personally approved the pay increases or other benefits. ProPublica, June 3, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice Queens man convicted _______________ Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal he feared would ruin his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election. The jury’s verdict, which came after only two days of deliberations, makes Trump the first president from Queens – or any-  where in the United States, for that matter — to become a felon. headline and lead paragraphs, Queens Daily Eagle, May 30, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice Queens man indicted _______________ A Queens man was indicted Thursday for allegedly making hush money payments to a porn star shortly before he was elected president of the United States in 2015. headline and lead, Queens Daily Eagle, March 30, 2023  [Trump was born in Jamaica Hospital and grew up in Jamaica Estates, a neighborhood in Queens, a borough in New York City] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice There is also a growing body of evidence showing racial disparities in sentencing. In 2017, the U.S. Sentencing Commission found that the average federal sentence for black men was 19.1 perent longer than for white men for the same crime, even when criminal history and other factors were held constant. Adam Cohen, Supreme Inequality © 2021 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice UNITED STATES * CRIMINAL NO. OF AMERICA * v. * GRAND JURY ORIGINAL DONALD J. TRUMP, * Defendant * VIOLATIONS: * * Count 1: 18 U.S.C. § 371 * (Conspiracy to Defraud the * United States) * * Count 2: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k) * (Conspiracy to Obstruct an * Official Proceeding) * * Count 3: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2),2 * (Obstruction of and Attempt to * Obstruct an Official Proceeding) * * Count 4: 18 U.S.C. § 342 * (Conspiracy Against Rights) © 2023 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice Wealthy murder suspect freed on bail as man accused of welfare fraud stuck in jail — — — — — — — — — — — California woman whose friends raised $35m for her is on house arrest as a man who can't afford $75,000 bail has two options: plead guilty or stay behind bars headline, The Guardian, April 25, 2017 [She murdered her father and children] [His bail is more than 15 times the amount of the alleged fraud; he lost his job, housing and possessions while jsiled awaiting trial] © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Criminal justice While it is true that no former former US president has before been indicted on criminal charges, little else about the indictment of Donald Trump is as “unprecedented” as the headlines have so endlessly declared. If there’s one thing that American politics has established a precedent for, it's pretending that its own corruption is unprecedented. Wikipedia helpfully curates a list of 134 (by my count) federal US politicians who  have been convicted of criminal wrongdoing. Sarah Churchwell, Financial Times, April 3, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com