#Appeal court

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"MRS. CHAPDELAINE TO APPEAL AGAIN," Montreal Star. July 11, 1934. Page 2. --- Counsel Seeks Dismissal of Judgment Denying Right to New Trial --- SHERBROOKE, Que., July 11. - (C.P.) Notice to the Supreme Court of Canada that Beatrice Bernard Chapdelaine, twice convicted of murdering her husband and at present under sentence of death, will appeal the decision of the Court of King's Bench, appeal side, denying her the right to a new and third trial, was served today by Cesaire Gervais, counsel for the condemned woman.

Following her second conviction in the Court of King's Bench here last fall, Mrs. Chapdelaine, charged with giving her husband, Ludger Chapdelaine, an East Angus taxidriver, a fatal dose of poison, carried her case to the Appeal Court for the second time on June 29. Her appeal was dismissed and she was ordered to be hanged on September 21.

Special reference was made in the judgment to the evidence of Gedeon Bernard, convicted accomplice of his sister and at present serving a five-year sentence in St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary for manslaughter. Mr. Justice Louis Cousineau, it was pointed out, had made a serious statement when he instructed the jury that since the defence wanted Bernard declared an accomplice in a crime involving the principal culprit, the one who actually committed the crime had to exist. However, Justice Cousineau had limited his remarks to an accomplice and did not align Mrs. Chapdelaine in her husband's case as such.

MAJORITY JUDGMENT In the notice of appeal to the Supreme Court given by Mr. Gervais and served upon Hon. L. Α. Taschereau, Attorney-General of the Province of Quebec, the clerk of the Court of King's Bench, appeal side, and Wilfrid Lazure, K.C., prosecutor for the district of St. Francis, it is pointed out that the judgment was a majority judgment of the Hon. Justices Bernier, Galipeault and Walsh, with Chief Justice Sir Matthias Tellier and Justice St. Jacques dissenting in law from the verdict of guilty of murder.

Chief Justice Tellier and Justice St. Jacques dissented, Mr. Gervais remarks, because in their opinion the verdict was unjust and resulted from illegal proof admitted at the woman's trial, such as the declarations of Ludger Chapdelaine. These two justices also labelled Mr. Justice Cousineau's charge to the jury "illegal and unjust:" and remarked that without these alleged illegalities it is impossible to say if the verdict would have been the same.

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Appeal court mandates that Yahaya Bello answer to charges of fraud

Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi State, was required to appear for trial by the Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Tuesday, August 20.The former governor is to be charged with N80 billion in fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at the Federal High Court in Abuja in April.Alongside Ali Bello, Dauda Suleiman, and Abdulsalam Hudu, three other accused, he was charged with 19…

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Excitement as Appeal Court upholds Ododo’s election as Kogi governor

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Thursday upheld the tribunal judgement that declared Usman Ododo of the All Progressive Congress as the valid winner of the Kogi governorship poll. A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, in a unanimous judgment, dismissed the appeal of the Social Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Murtala Ajaka. The court held that the appellants failed…

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A heavily pregnant Jacqueline Cornelius-Thorne is back in town - Appeal Court - Ralph Thorne - Barbados.

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Cash-strapped council spent £305k on legal case it already lost

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The cash-strapped council paid a single firm of solicitors £2m over a two-year period. Now it has been forced to admit that it spent another chunk of public money in pursuing a housing case in which they had admitted they were in the wrong – in 2014. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The lawyers’ friend: the cash-strapped council’s £192,000 per year CEO Katherine Kerswell Between 2022…

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Oyo South: Alli Floors PDP's Tegbe, NNPP's Gbogbolomo At Appeal Court

The Appeal Court sitting in Lagos, has upheld the judgment of the National Assembly Petition Tribunal which validated the victory of Sen. Sharafadeen Alli (APC- Oyo South), as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This is contained in a statement signed by Alli’s Special Adviser on Media, Akeem Abas and made available to newsmen on Saturday. Alli won the separate…

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Contempt:  Court  debunks signing FORM 48 against INEC, 3 others 

Contempt:  Court  debunks signing FORM 48 against INEC, 3 others By: Femi Mustapha A Federal Capital  Territory  High Court has denied signing Form 48 against the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), and some of its principals. This was contained in a letter from the  Hon. Judge, Chamber, Hon. Justice E. Enenche, and signed by the Principal Registrar 1 Shehu  Suleiman. The letter…

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*peering down at my own genetic sequence* uh-huh uh-huh bold choice bold fucking choices my friend

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Dc x Dp Prompt #21: Petition to the King

I haven’t done one of these in a while so here we go:

AU where Thomas and Martha Wayne live in the Ghost Zone version of Gotham and have been collecting signatures from the other ghosts there for a few years now. Since the Ghost Prince Phantom has finally come of age and is now able to hold court/assemblies they approach him with their official petition and beseech him: Please allow them avenge their grandson and countless other souls, who’ve signed agreeing to the petition, to haunt and torment the Joker for the rest of his living days. May he never find peace even in sleep, even in death.

Danny being the gracious prince he is agrees. Even going as far as to take the names of literally everyone on the list and create a haunting rotation, for who gets to torment the Joker on which days, with Thomas and Martha having first dibs.

The grandson in question is a revenant and thus also eligible to be put on the haunting rotation so Danny decides to reach out and go to Gotham himself and ask if he wants to haunt the Joker with his grandparents. Thomas and Martha tag along bc they wanna visit their grand-babies, their son, and their partner who raised him.

Jason isn’t sure what to make of his doting ghostly grandparents, the beautiful interdimensional king, or the apparent laundry list of people ready to mess with the Joker’s mind, but hey! If he can’t kill the Joker, eternal torment isn’t a bad deal to swing!

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taash said "they were doing it" and people ran with the interpretation of an npc that doesn't know solas or the history of the elvhenan even when bellara interjected and said, no, that's not right. that's not how it was for the elvhenan. they formed bonds before they had physical bodies. and people ran to doompost or create weird anti-solavellan shit even though mythal & solas refer to each other as old friends and when she releases him there is no tenderness or love in it. it is the act of unchaining a dog from his post, the stepping down of a general. but to each their own ig.

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Under the six-week ban, providers could not perform abortions if they detected fetal cardiac activity, which emerges at about six weeks into pregnancy. Many women, McBurney wrote, do not even know they are pregnant at six weeks.

“For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability,” McBurney wrote. “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.”

In a footnote, McBurney added: “There is an uncomfortable and usually unspoken subtext of involuntary servitude swirling about this debate, symbolically illustrated by the composition of the legal teams in this case. It is generally men who promote and defend laws like the Life Act, the effect of which is to require only women – and, given the socio-economic and demographic evidence presented at trial, primarily poor women, which means in Georgia primarily black and brown women – to engage in compulsory labor, ie, the carrying of a pregnancy to term at the government’s behest.”

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kinda interested in theorizing how the court system in the republic works. specifically coruscant bc imagine if with a trillion people on the planet the trial and appeal system is absolute shit

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I couldn't get this little missing scene out of my head!!! I mean how do we go from Niko asking him if he knows it's okay to be gay to just straight up asking if he wants to kiss boys in the next episode?! I think perhaps they did have some discussions between the episodes, and while Edwin was still figuring himself out, Niko was able to suss him out for certain.

"Niko, I am afraid you might have misunderstood me earlier at the library today... Of course, I know that two boys can - what did you say?- Ah, "like like each other." I may have died in 1916, but my politics certainly did not stagnate there. I simply meant... while, yes, Monty and I are both boys, that is just... not where my... proclivities lie."

Niko stares at him with what can only be described as gentle confusion and asks "Okay... so you're saying you don't want to date boys?" Edwin tries not to panic because he can hear the doubt in her question.

"Precisely. Frankly, I do not think courting as a whole is in the books for me. I never truly understood the appeal, " he explains. Niko looks at him with poorly hidden sadness at this comment.

"Well, that's toootally okay. You don't have to date anybody if you don't want to! But... I really think you should still read some of my manga. They can be very informative."

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Lock him up!

Bannon is a leading fascist strategist for Trump. It's too bad that their trials are in different jurisdictions. It would be fun to imagine them sharing a jail cell – material for a genuine reality show. 😝

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld former White House adviser Steve Bannon's conviction for criminal contempt of Congress. Bannon was sentenced in October 2022 to four months in prison on charges related to his refusal to testify before and provide documents to the Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. At the time, the judge also fined Bannon $6,500 but allowed the former Trump adviser to remain free while he appealed his convictions. According to Friday's order, the three-judge panel rejected Bannon's argument that he was not guilty because his "lawyer advised him not to respond to the subpoena" from Congress. Bannon could still appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices there previously did not help Peter Navarro, another Trump aide, to stay out of prison on similar charges.

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Hey, hey, look at me. Look me in the eyes. Listen.

Ace Attorney au where everything is the same up to Turnabout Sisters at which point things go wildly off the rails and Redd White succeeds in getting Phoenix convicted for Mia’s murder

And theoretically Edgeworth should be satisfied another criminal in prison and his record is maintained. But something keeps bothering him about the case. And he convinces himself it’s the motive, they never figured out *why* Phoenix Wright would kill Mia Fey. (Spoiler alert it’s actually bc deep down he knows Phoenix didn’t do it and he’s got, you know, unnecessary feelings)

So he goes to visit Phoenix in detention, to ask him what his motive was. And Phoenix is like"You want my motive?" "yes?" "i'd love to tell you, really I would, but since I didn't fucking do it; that's kind of a tall order"

But Phoenix is also kind of in a bind because he’s in prison and Redd White isn’t and now White knows that Maya knows who he is. And Phoenix is worried she’s going to be his next target.

So he strikes a deal with Edgeworth. Edgeworth investigates Redd White (not for Murder but for his many financial crimes) and Phoenix will give him access to his entire life basically, his apartment, Mia’s office, etc, so that he can figure out Phoenix’s motive

Featuring (but not limited to):

Edgeworth’s slow descent into a morality crisis as he realizes Phoenix is innocent and White isn’t; therefore also throwing his previous cases into doubt

Maya and Miles worsties to besties with Maya helping Miles with his investigation with the goal of helping Phoenix and eventually bonding with him through their shared family trauma

Guilt nightmares and general spiraling

“Everything I’ve learned about Wright has been against my will” -Edgeworth, lying

Phoenix’s depressing personal life and Mia being Important

Edgeworth having Phoenix consult on the Will Powers case while in prison and Phoenix of course finding the key contradictions

Demon prosecutor Miles Edgeworth breaking his own perfect record by helping Phoenix file an appeal and being a proxy in his retrial

A surprising amount of April May character development as she turns on White and testifies in Phoenix’s retrial

Eventual wrightworth because you know how I be