Criminal Where the defendant convicted of carjacking and brandishing a machine gun challenged the evidence that he intended to cause harm, the fact that he pointed the machine gun at the two carjacking victims and threatened that they could either ...

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Criminal Where a defendant was convicted of possessing a firearm and sentenced under the heightened penalties of the Armed Career Criminal Act, or ACCA, based on prior felony convictions, because the Virginia rape and burglary statutes can be satisfied with ...

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Criminal Where a defendant who was sentenced to death for his role in a murder for hire plot alleged his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to investigate adequately his brain injury and potential mental illness, and failing to ...

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Where a defendant convicted of the misuse of public assets sought an evidentiary hearing into the conduct of a juror who followed journalists covering the trial, there was no evidence she read a tweet about the trial. Background After Allen ...

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Comedian and actor Kevin Hart will avoid liability in a suit by business partners who claimed their video game launch was torpedoed by Hart’s admission of an extramarital affair, following a decision from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...

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At some point, everyone dreams about having the power to hurry along the hands of time, to hasten the arrival of the weekend, or maybe a vaccine. Contract law gives lawyers something akin to this sort of power: the ability ...

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The government was required to show the defendant engaged in sex with a minor for “the purpose” of creating a video. By instructing the jury that it could convict the defendant if the video was “a purpose” of the sexual ...

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Kevin Hart’s decision to confess to an affair on Instagram was not a breach of his fiduciary duty owed to a video game company with whom he had agreed to develop a multiplayer mobile game. Hart’s disclosure of the affair ...

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An Army sergeant convicted of killing his new spouse, an Army soldier, failed to demonstrate that murder is not a crime of violence. Supreme Court precedent holds that it is impossible to cause bodily injury “without applying force in the ...

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Where a truck driver claimed an arbitration agreement involved in resolving a dispute with his employer was unconscionable because it shortened all applicable statutes of limitation to one year, the limited time period was not unreasonably short, and the agreement ...

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