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  2. Murder of Megan Kanka - Wikipedia

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    Sentence. Death (1997) Commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (2007) The murder of Megan Nicole Kanka (December 7, 1986 – July 29, 1994) occurred in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Seven-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by her neighbor, Jesse Timmendequas, after he lured her ...

  3. Murder of Elisa Izquierdo - Wikipedia

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    Murder of Elisa Izquierdo. / 40.6956; -73.8761. Elisa Izquierdo (February 11, 1989 – November 22, 1995) [3] was a six-year-old Puerto Rican – Cuban-American girl [2] who died of a brain hemorrhage [2] inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse ...

  4. Catholic Church sexual abuse cases - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, Juris Magazine, the journal of the Duquesne Law School, compared reports and concluded that sexual abuse by school teachers is proportionally higher than by Catholic priests - while about 4% Catholic priests and other clerics per year commit sexual abuse, this number rose to 5-7 % in the case of public school teachers. The magazine ...

  5. R. Kelly sexual abuse cases - Wikipedia

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    Exposure of child sexual abuse material and indictment (2002) 2003 mugshot of Kelly. On February 3, 2002, a video began circulating allegedly depicting Kelly's sexual abuse of a girl known to be underage. The abuse included Kelly urinating on her. The video was released by an unknown source and sent to the Chicago Sun-Times.

  6. Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Sharp (1948) that the Californian anti-miscegenation laws violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the first time since Reconstruction that a state court declared such laws unconstitutional, and making California the first state since Ohio in 1887 to overturn its anti-miscegenation law. The case raised constitutional ...

  7. Legal aid in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Legal aid for civil cases is currently provided by a variety of public interest law firms and community legal clinics, who often have "legal aid" or "legal services" in their names. Public interest practice emerged from the goal of promoting access to equal justice for the poor and this was inspired from the legal services disparity amongst ...

  8. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    This case was the beginning of the plenary power legal doctrine that has been used in Indian case law to limit tribal sovereignty. Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884) An Indian cannot make himself a citizen of the United States without the consent and the co-operation of the United States Federal government. United States v.

  9. List of false imprisonment cases - Wikipedia

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    South Wales paternal sex abuse case, South Wales, UK, 20 years, discovered in October 2019. Turpin case, Perris, California, United States, 29 years, discovered on 14 January 2018. Viktoria, Katharina, and Elisabeth (Linz sisters), Linz, Austria, 7 years. Cases involving abducted children