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People v. Davis
Deon Davis appeals pretrial detention granted under the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act due to unlawful possession of a firearm; court finds evidence sufficient for detention and upholds decision.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netIndia's political news after World War I was driven largely by Gandhi, whom the poet Rabindranath Tagore had christened "Mahatma," the Great One. Since leaving South Africa, Gandhi had become, through his various campaigns for swaraj, or self-rule—independence from Britain—a household name in India. Gujaratis took inordinate pride in seei
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I may mention that I keep from thirty to forty large portfolios, in cabinets with labelled shelves, into which I can at once put a detached reference or memorandum. I have bought many books, and at their ends I make an index of all the facts that concern my work; or, if the book is not my own, write out a separate abstract, and of such abstracts I
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People v. Stock
Defendant appeals denial of pretrial release for aggravated battery. Court finds State failed to prove no conditions can mitigate threat, reversing trial court’s decision. Remanded for further proceedings.
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Seeds of this organizing had been planted on Grey Street, where a shopkeeper had hired, in 1893, a young lawyer from his hometown in Gujarat. Upon arrival, the Oxford-educated lawyer was kicked off trains, insulted in courts, and beaten in the streets for his color—and soon realized the pervasive injustices facing Indians in South Africa. "I t
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