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Minority law student groups seek exam delays due to grand jury rulings; Columbia partly acquiesces
Columbia Law School has announced it will consider applications to delay final exams by students traumatized by recent grand jury decisions in New York and Ferguson, Missouri, but that decision doesn’t completely satisfy a group seeking exam delays.
The Coalition at... [...]
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Dozens of lawyers join protests over police slayings
Dozens of lawyers in New York City and elsewhere joined protests Wednesday over recent police slayings of unarmed individuals and the way they have been handled by the criminal justice system.
Public defenders marched with other lawyers at Brooklyn courthouses and at least one prosecutor’s office and also participated... [...]
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Graffiti suspect may have tagged from Seattle to Southern California, police say
A suspect in a California graffiti case may have tagged along the West Coast from Bakersfield to Seattle, police say.
Derek Murphy, 21, was booked Monday on suspicion of felony vandalism after Santa Cruz authorities linked him to BERG and GREB tags on park property and police... [...]
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9 shot at public park's basketball court in West Little River
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - Five teenagers were among the nine people shot at a public park in West Little River Monday afternoon.
The group was playing basketball when the gunman leaned out the window, aimed a semi-automatic weapon in their direction and hit 16-year-old Trugon Bryson in the head. He then sprayed... [...]
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Michael Bargo sentenced; Now youngest man on Florida death row
MARION COUNTY, Fla. — An Ocala man is heading to death row for his part in the slaying of a 15-year-old boy.
During a 10-minute hearing on Friday, Circuit Judge David Eddy read 21-year-old Michael Bargo's death sentence.
Bargo was the last of five defendants to be sentenced in the April 2011 murder of Seath... [...]
