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Behind every government there is an impressive team of hard-working lawyers. In Australia, the Solicitor-General leads that team. A former Attorney-General once said, 'The Solicitor-General is next to the High Court and God.' And yet the role of government lawyers in Australia, and specifically the Solicitor-General as the most senior of government lawyers, is under-theorised and under-studied. The Role of the Solicitor-General: Negotiating Law, Politics and the Public Interest goes behind the scenes of government - drawing from interviews with over 45 government and judicial officials - to uncover the history, theory and practice of the Australian Solicitor-General. The analysis reveals a role that is of fundamental constitutional importance to ensuring both the legality and the integrity of government action, thus contributing to the achievement of rule-of-law ideals. The Solicitor-General also works to defend government action and prosecute government policies in the court, and thus performs an important role as messenger between the political and judicial branches of government. But the Solicitor-General's position, as both an internal integrity check on government and an external warrior for government, gives rise to competing pressures: between the law, politics and the public interest. The office of the Solicitor-General in Australia has evolved many characteristics across the almost two centuries of its history in an attempt to navigate these tensions. These pressures are not unique to the Australian context. The understanding of the Australian position provided by this book is informed by, and will inform, comparative analysis of the role of government lawyers across the world
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Government attorneys --- Lawyers --- Civil rights --- History. --- Elman, Philip. --- United States. --- Officials and employees
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"Morley Swingle, veteran prosecuting attorney, combines true crime and legal analysis with a healthy dose of humor as he re-creates more than thirty stories of villains, heroes, and ordinary citizens, taking readers from the crime scene to the courtroom and sharing the occasional 'Perry Mason moment'"--Provided by publisher.
Public prosecutors --- DAs (District attorneys) --- District attorneys --- Prosecuting attorneys --- Prosecutors, Public --- Government attorneys --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Swingle, Morley.
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Tort liability of police --- Police legal advisors --- Police misconduct --- Risk management --- Legal advisors, Police --- Government attorneys --- Police administration
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Public defenders --- Legal assistance to the poor --- Right to counsel --- Defenders, Public --- Criminal defense lawyers --- Government attorneys --- Defense (Criminal procedure) --- Attitudes. --- Legal status, laws, etc.
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President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts-a state with an African American population of only 2 percent?. The mystery of Senator Edward Brooke's meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts attorney general to the first popularly elected African American U.S. senator with some of the highest favorable ratings of any Massachusetts politician confounded many of the best political minds of the day. This articulate and charismatic
Legislators --- African American legislators --- Attorneys general --- Government attorneys --- Justice ministers --- Afro-American legislators --- Legislators, African American --- Brooke, Edward W. --- Brooke, Edward William, --- Brooke, Edward, --- Brooke, Ed, --- United States. --- Mei-kuo tsʻan i yüan --- Massachusetts --- Politics and government
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Databases of both convicted offenders and no-suspect cases demonstrate the power of DNA testing to solve the unsolvable. George “Woody” Clarke is a leading authority in legal circles and among the news media because of his expertise in DNA evidence. In this memoir, Clarke chronicles his experiences in some of the most disturbing and notorious sexual assault and murder court cases in California. He charts the beginnings of DNA testing in police investigations and the fight for its acceptance by courts and juries. He illustrates the power of science in cases he personally prosecuted or in which he assisted, including his work with the prosecution team in the trial of O. J. Simpson. Clarke also covers cases where DNA evidence was used to exonerate. He directed a special project in San Diego County, proactively examining over six hundred cases of defendants convicted and sentenced to prison before 1993, with the goal of finding instances in which DNA typing might add new evidence and then offered testing to those inmates. As Clarke tells the story of how he came to understand and use this new form of evidence, readers will develop a new appreciation for the role of science in the legal system.
Forensic genetics --- DNA fingerprinting --- Public prosecutors --- DAs (District attorneys) --- District attorneys --- Prosecuting attorneys --- Prosecutors, Public --- Government attorneys --- Forensic biology --- Genetics --- Medical jurisprudence --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Clarke, George, --- Clarke, Woody,
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Leading prosecution researchers throughout the United States are brought together in this book to illuminate the new environment of prosecution in America, the prosecution of troubling and emerging crime problems, prosecutorial problem-solving and community prosecution, and the future of prosecution in the twenty-first century. The contributors explore how American prosecutors are moving away from a traditional, reactive approach to the crime problem, and, instead, how they are developing creative problem-solving strategies for dealing with crime and disorder.
Public prosecutors --- Prosecution --- Criminal procedure --- Law - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Criminal Law & Procedure - U.S. --- DAs (District attorneys) --- District attorneys --- Prosecuting attorneys --- Prosecutors, Public --- Government attorneys --- Decision making. --- Decision making --- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Major General Enoch Crowder served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. In 1915, Crowder convinced Congress to increase the size of the Judge Advocate General's Office—the legal arm of the United States Army—from thirteen uniformed attorneys to more than four hundred. Crowder's recruitment of some of the nation's leading legal scholars, as well as former congressmen and state supreme court judges, helped legitimize President Woodrow Wilson's wartime military and legal policies. As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the army numbered about 120,000 soldiers. The Judge Advocate General's Office was instrumental in extending the military's reach into the everyday lives of citizens to enable the construction of an army of more than four million soldiers by the end of the war. Under Crowder's leadership, the office was responsible for the creation and administration of the Selective Service Act, under which thousands of men were drafted into military service, as well as enforcement of the Espionage Act and wartime prohibition. In this first published history of the Judge Advocate General's Office between the years of 1914 and 1922, Joshua Kastenberg examines not only courts-martial, but also the development of the laws of war and the changing nature of civil-military relations. The Judge Advocate General's Office influenced the legislative and judicial branches of the government to permit unparalleled assertions of power, such as control over local policing functions and the economy. Judge advocates also altered the nature of laws to recognize a person's diminished mental health as a defense in criminal trials, influenced the assertion of US law overseas, and affected the evolving nature of the law of war. This groundbreaking study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers of US history, as well as military, legal, and political historians.
Judge advocates --- Civil-military relations --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Military and civilian power --- Military-civil relations --- Executive power --- Sociology, Military --- Military government --- Government attorneys --- History --- Law and legislation --- Crowder, E. H. --- Crowder, Enoch Herbert, --- United States. --- JAG --- OTJAG
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The American prosecutor plays a powerful role in the judicial system, wielding the authority to accept or decline a case, choose which crimes to allege, and decide the number of counts to charge. These choices, among others, are often made with little supervision or institutional oversight. This prosecutorial discretion has prompted scholars to look to the role of prosecutors in Europe for insight on how to reform the American system of justice. In The Prosecutor in Transnational Perspective, Erik Luna and Marianne Wade, through the works of their contributors coupled with their own analysis,
Public prosecutors. --- Criminal investigation. --- Crime detection --- Crime investigation --- Criminal investigations --- Detection of crime --- Investigations --- Law enforcement --- Crime scenes --- Detectives --- Forensic sciences --- Suspects (Criminal investigation) --- DAs (District attorneys) --- District attorneys --- Prosecuting attorneys --- Prosecutors, Public --- Public prosecutors --- Government attorneys --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Informers
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