Governor Bill Haslam signed SB1391 into law in April, 2014, amending Tennessee’s fetal homicide law to allow women to be prosecuted for the use of narcotics while pregnant. The law allows women to be charged with aggravated assault, which carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison (...
I became especially enraged after having attributed a totally different meaning to that incident, and even now, it acts as a kind of rumpled page in the long history of my healing process, and continues to come up as fear in current relationships, as well as a topic in therapy sessions a...
Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do, and home has become much less of a work shop. Clothes can be bought ready made, washing can go to the laundry, food can b
The worst case examples are used as justification for the law, yet these worst case scenarios are always able to be prosecuted under existing legislation. Andrew An unequivocal no. This country is becoming a nation akin to something from George Orwell’s 1984 or Animal Farm. Free speech is ...
‘Georgia Harrison sex tape’ became a topGoogle search. But after taking the courage to waive her right to anonymity, her campaigning led to a monumental change in the law. It removed the need for intent to cause distress or humiliation for non-consensual sharing to be prosecuted, therefore...
Can You Be Guilty of Libel If You Leave Disparaging or Negative Comments Online? If a defamatory or damaging statement is written and posted online, such as via a blog post or throughsocial media, it may be considered libel. If so, the one who committed the libel could be prosecuted. Whi...
Trump is the first former US president to be criminally prosecuted and the first former president convicted of a crime. Trump has denied any wrongdoing. Trump's lawyers contend that prosecutors improperly admitted evidence of Trump's official acts during the trial. They also argue that, as presid...
However, if a physician performs such an act in accordance with statutory requirements of due care and the performance is afterwards reported to the judicial authorities—more specifically: the local coroner—, the involved physician will probably not to be prosecuted. In that case, this physician,...
Cries for reform to the law of joint enterprise became louder after a CPS pilot scheme revealed that black people were 16 times more likely than white people to be prosecuted under joint enterprise, and more than half of those prosecuted were from minority ethnic backgrounds. Whilst a Private ...
During a relatively friendly line of questioning, Justice Brett Kavanaugh pressed Mitchell on whether a person could conceivably be prosecuted under the federal insurrection law and — if convicted — automatically disqualified from holding office. Mitchell said generally, yes, but not in Trump’s case...