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  • In the United States, for example, the general perjury statute under Federal ... the legal term describing the act of an attorney who presents testimony ...
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  • Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in 1860 ...
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  • In general, civil law based justice systems, especially in Europe ... * That one has the right to consult an attorney * That if one cannot ...
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  • Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced "Tawney") (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. He also ...
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  • of the Supreme Court, James Speed (Attorney General), and Edwin M. Stanton ... * Ulysses S. Grant: Commanding Union general 1864-1869; U.S. President ...
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  • the jury pool. Massachusetts Solicitor General Samuel Quincy and private ... tried: for hazarding a Popularity very general and very hardly earned: ...
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  • John Breckinridge resigned to become Attorney General of the United States ... John Breckinridge resigned to become Attorney General. His close association ...
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  • of his attacks. In 1754 he became Attorney-General, and for the next two ... title=Attorney General|before=Sir Dudley Ryder|after=Sir Robert Henley ...
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  • health while working as an investigating attorney for the U.S. Commission ... the American government, the attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer ...
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  • Dewey served as a prosecutor and District Attorney in New York City for many ... while serving as Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District ...
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  • dmin/2005/94.html R. v. H.M. Attorney General, ex parte Jackson] England ... (Appellants) v. Her Majesty’s Attorney General [2005] UKHL 56] Retrieved ...
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  • in his first term. Another, a U.S. Attorney General, Senator, and Presidential ... Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General of the United States and Senator ...
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  • The governor and Illinois state Attorney General Philip Lutz eventually ... and mailed a letter of warning to a U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago ...
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  • | title=Confederate States Attorney General | term_start=February 25, 1861 ... Davis appointed Benjamin to be the first Attorney General of the Confederacy ...
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  • of English descent, Henry trained as an attorney. Noted for his fiery oratorical ... my own purchase! I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living ...
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  • and declined the appointment as Attorney General tendered by President ... |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|Caleb ...
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  • (1982–86); Special Assistant to the Attorney General (1981–82) ... Company Inc. (1977–79); Assistant Attorney General in Missouri under State ...
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  • serving as a colonel and brigadier general in the Union Army during ... |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|William ...
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  • accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to ... schools and authorized the U. S. Attorney General to file suits to force ...
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  • in 1945, he was appointed Assistant Attorney General of Alabama, and during ... by federal marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach ...
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  • eligible to be appointed senators and in general had the same rights as Canadian ... others (Appeal No. 121 of 1928) v The Attorney General of Canada (Canada)] ...
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  • Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ... had served as his father's solicitor general. Taft himself appeared taciturn ...
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  • and was appointed by his brother as Attorney General for his administration ... about civil rights before I became Attorney General, but my fundamental ...
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  • Nixon initially ordered U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson to ... 16, 2020. Bork remained acting attorney general until the appointment ...
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  • of Los Angeles and California in general. Under his influence, Los ... interests and named himself president, general manager, and editor-in-chief. ...
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  • controversial American politician, Union general in the American Civil War ... but who did not hold such high office as a General Sickles did, went unsung. ...
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  • is put at >$35 million.) India's attorney general, Soli Sorabjee, argued that the court lacked jurisdiction, The Tribune, [http://www ...
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  • of trade secrets forms part of the general concept of protection against ... [http://www.uspto.gov/main/faq/index.html General Questions.] Retrieved November ...
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  • member of the Gainsborough church and an attorney-at-law, was co-leader of ... from Smyth and Helwys were of the General Baptist persuasion, preaching ...
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  • . In 1815, he became the state attorney general, an office that he held ... |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|Benjamin ...
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  • General Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987 ... Both President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F ...
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  • At the age of 21, he was chosen as general music director of the city ... have ranged from political naiveté in general to a general resistance ...
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  • Macdonald was appointed Attorney-General. During his time in ... title=Minister of Justice and Attorney General| after=Antoine Dorion| ...
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  • Ringling Brothers Circus and circus history in general. ... In 1954, John M. Kelley, a former attorney for the Ringling Brothers ...
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  • Act also gave the United States Attorney General the power to obtain ... affect commerce and are inimical to the general welfare, and to protect ...
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  • project were released, which supported the general allegations of espionage ... Julius Rosenberg hired Emanuel "Manny" Bloch, an attorney ...
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  • are kept in the same building as the general library, but many are either ... many volumes. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts General Court (the state legislature ...
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  • Attorney General for President Ronald Reagan, Edwin Meese, courted ... In the United States in 2005, Attorney General Gonzales made obscenity ...
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  • October 10, 1868, under the leadership of attorney Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ... defeats, Céspedes replaced Gomez with General Thomas Jordan, who brought ...
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  • and accepted a position as special attorney and assistant to Jerome ... offered Stevenson a position as principal attorney and special assistant. Stevenson ...
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  • in politics. He became the prosecuting attorney of Stark County, Ohio, from ... |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|Joseph ...
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  • House of Burgesses in 1746, and was appointed Attorney General by the Royal Governor of Virginia in 1773. He served in the House of Burgesses until its ...
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  • in Truman’s 1934 successful primary and general election races. ... was elected after U.S. District Attorney Maurice Milligan, who had ...
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  • The committee, headed by California attorney H. Rowan Gaither, recommended ... In 2005, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox began a probe of the foundation ...
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  • the nickname "Tippecanoe." As a general in the subsequent War of ... |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|John ...
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  • from "the extreme right." Attorney General John Mitchell, who was ... mountaintop" by former Maryland Attorney General Stephen Sachs. Students ...
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  • * Resignation of Harding's attorney general for accepting bribes ... |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|Harry ...
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  • as deputy head, and in 1924, the Attorney General made him the acting ... choosing not to inform Truman, his Attorney General McGraith or two Secretaries ...
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  • launched the "Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)|Persons Case," ... and she protested to the provincial Attorney General. "If the evidence ...
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  • Gray reportedly had defended Felt to Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst ... The Attorney General in the new Carter administration, Griffin B. ...
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  • committed against the public, society in general. In this sense, criminal ... a lack of consciousness.Bratty v. Attorney-General for Northern Ireland ...
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  • War, Arthur served as acting Quartermaster General of the State in 1861 and ... |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|Benjamin ...
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  • a time excluded from the court. When the Attorney-Generalship fell vacant ... Bacon was finally able to become attorney-general, by dint of advising ...
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  • (UAP). He was immediately appointed Attorney-General and Minister for Industry ... not served in that war and that as Attorney General and Deputy Prime Minister ...
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  • Jackson. Abraham had become a successful attorney and politician. In 1846 ... *A brother in law was CS General [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg ...
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  • hope for colonization, noting that he asked attorney general Edward Bates if the Rev. James Mitchell could stay on as "your assistant or aid in the ...
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  • on Christian grounds. His father was a general in the Liberian army and ... revenue, and in 1917 was appointed county attorney. He was a member of the ...
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  • (1760-1806) was a Senator of Kentucky and Attorney General under Thomas Jefferson. Sophonisba Breckinridge graduated from Wellesley College in ...
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  • time, his parallel career as a corporate attorney earned him a fortune. He ... and freedom of expression. He became ACLU general counsel in 1920. Perhaps ...
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  • the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the Commonwealth ... the Lieutenant Governor, and the Attorney General. They are the only three ...
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  • a Communist front group on the Attorney General's List of Subversive ... Ryan, facing questioning by U.S. District Attorney Irving Saypol, described ...
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  • a career United States Army officer and a general in the Confederate States ... younger brother of future Confederate Attorney General Thomas Bragg. He graduated ...
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  • Virginia and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil ... Archibald Stuart, was a politician and attorney, and represented Patrick ...
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  • later, he was appointed England's Attorney General, a prestigious post for which he competed with rival Sir Francis Bacon. During this period ...
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  • with Oliver Lee and Lee's corrupt attorney Albert Fall, always finding ... he killed Billy the Kid and Garrett's general demeanor had led to his ...
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  • was a self taught lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War ... law and served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Covington, Indiana. In ...
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  • Investigations. Harford: Connecticut General Assembly, Ofice of Legislative ... NC: Committee on the Office of Attorney General, 1977. ...
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  • who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines, and ... In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Attorney ...
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  • Military lawyers of the Judge Advocate General's corps (JAG) representing ... *General, which, depending on the charges, can sentence an accused ...
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  • France and new taxes became more than the general population could tolerate ... Simon Sudbury and any judge or attorney on whom they could lay their ...
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  • of committing was the bombing of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer& ... traced a Galleanist leaflet found in Attorney General Palmer's bombed ...
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  • In 1900, Parsons married Herbert Parsons, a New York attorney. They ... toward the liberalization of American society in general. ...
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  • proposed by Carl Schurz, a German-born Union Army general: ... B.I. Director, James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and Judge ...
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  • a position for him with the Virginia attorney general, Robert Brooke. ... of Fayette County in the Kentucky General Assembly, Clay focused his ...
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  • was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony. ... comprising 105 consulates, consulates general, and honorary consulates. ...
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  • Oliver L. Brown had initially contacted Topeka attorney William Everett ... Court for the plaintiffs. Assistant attorney general Paul Wilson —later ...
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  • against the state of Maryland and its attorney general, who represented the ... of his career as a Supreme Court attorney; he was only 32 years old ...
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  • 1798–1801), as New York State Attorney General (1789–1791), United ... Clinton appointed him New York State Attorney General. He was commissioner ...
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  • on March 13, 1925, by the Tennessee General Assembly. The Butler Act stated: ... that he would act as Scopes' attorney—whether Scopes liked it ...
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  • have to reason extensively on the basis of general rules and principles of ... considerably in criminal procedure. In general, the judge in a civil law ...
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  • born lawyer who also served as the attorney general of Pennsylvania from ... Franklin to be the first Postmaster General of what would later become ...
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  • received a brevet promotion to brigadier general in January 1838. It was ... |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|Reverdy ...
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  • |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|John ... nomination. However, this was not done and General Winfield Scott was named ...
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  • behest. The then-newly appointed U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno approved ... been made in Washington to convince Attorney General Janet Reno to end the ...
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  • * New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney General (1987). Also known ... * New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney General (1990). This case concerned ...
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  • |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|John J. Crittenden||align="left"|1841 |- |align="left"| ...
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  • features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money ... for helping to break the 2006-2007 US Attorney firing scandal, the Duke ...
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  • promoted to the rank of brigadier general as the Civil War was drawing ... |align="left"|Attorney General||align="left"|Charles ...
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  • Marbles were more tenuous than implied by the Attorney General.[http://www.elginism.com/20050603/126/ What does the Feldmann case verdict mean for the ...
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  • In general, there are three types of construction: (1) building, ... easier to accomplish. In practice, a general contractor works closely ...
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  • By decision of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the penitentiary was closed on March 21, 1963. It was closed because it was far more expensive ...
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  • from the corporate community and the general public. The success of this ... successor Evan Mecham, citing an attorney general's opinion that ...
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  • |leader_title1 = District Attorney |leader_name1 ... own criminal court system and District Attorney, the chief public prosecutor ...
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  • He became the Deputy Attorney General of New York in 1914. In 1916 ... In 1946, LaGuardia was appointed Director General of The (UNRRA). ...
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  • by the Office of the Pardon Attorney, an official of the Department ... majority of cases, however, the Pardon Attorney will consider only petitions ...
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  • ** He was U.S. attorney general in his brother's administration ... Kennedy Cabinet (Robert Kennedy as Attorney General for example). However ...
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  • investigation by Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. On October ... the Post by Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The subpoena ...
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  • Secretary of State George Shultz, Attorney General Ed Meese, and Chief ... Hawk missile shipment to Iran. US Attorney General Edwin Meese admitted ...
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  • area, and served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona from 1965–1969. ... after swearing him in as U.S. Attorney General, as Becky Gonzales looks ...
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  • Jr. in the 1954 race for state attorney general. [[Image:BOSSCROKER.JPG|thumb|left|300px|All politics revolved around the “boss,” 1899 cartoon ...
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