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"The whole world is watching, and our very legitimacy as a nation of laws, not men, depends on getting this right," the attorneys said.
"Here in America, we don't lock people up for their First Amendment rights," Justin Coffman says the judge told the federal prosecutor in Tennessee.
The “Full House” star will serve her sentence at a low-security prison in Northern California.
U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant, a top federal prosecutor in Tennessee, is "throwing the book" at a Black Lives Matter supporter in an anarcho-punk band.
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The Justice Department created an exception to a decadeslong policy meant to prevent prosecutors from taking overt investigative steps that might affect the outcome of the vote.
U.S. attorneys are overwhelmingly white men. That means they look far less like the populations they serve, opening the door wider for bias.
Current federal prosecutor James Herbert said Barr "has brought shame on the department he purports to lead."
D.C.'s top prosecutor told Muriel Bowser that police didn't have probable cause for mass arrests, and that "guilt by association" doesn't warrant felony charges.
Under the proposed deal, the “Full House” star would spend two months in prison while her fashion designer husband would serve five months behind bars.
Geoffrey Berman, former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, told the House Judiciary panel that Attorney General William Barr “repeatedly urged” him to resign.