...local news media, be it newspaper or television, and that Media Coordinator is responsible for petitioning the court for Extended Media Coverage of trials in which media organizations are interested...
Illinois (ECWd) – We first exposed a questionable survey being sent out by Illinois State University in this article. After obtaining numerous documents related to the grant and applications for...
...presented in comments they get deleted or blocked from further posting. A recent example was exposed in articles here, here, and here. Within this anonymous poster’s comments was a statement:...
...articles here, and here, as well as reading the information linked to within those articles. Tom Finks, an attorney, and former Shelby County State’s Attorney spoke to the comments made...
...the state’s high court rejected those charges and pointed to the Double Jeopardy provision in their state law. After that ruling, the legislature removed what they called the Double Jeopardy...
...in the United States Constitution, any state constitution or in Black’s Law Dictionary. Rather, the dual sovereignty doctrine is a creation of judicial crafting. In 1852, the principle of dual...
...with multiple attorneys, including those in the Shelby County State’s Attorney’s office, the action taken by the appointed special prosecutor, not the State’s Attorney, dismissing the state charges, was the...
...boards” has always contradicted state law. The “Board of Directors” or “Executive Board” has never had any powers to make any decisions of any VAC (public body) in this state....
...various opinions of the VACMC attorney, Thomas W. Burkart (there are conflicting statements as to whether he is the attorney for the public body or for the nonprofit), the VACMC...
...next meeting. They should also be knowledgeable enough to answer the questions asked. But this VAC “executive board” apparently will simply “compare” the old bylaws with the new state law...