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Attorney Anne Kajir uncovered evidence of widespread corruption and complicity in the Papua New Guinea government that allowed rampant, illegal logging that is destroying the largest remaining intact block of tropical forest in the Asia Pacific region In 1997, her first year practicing law, Kajir successfully defended a precedent-setting appeal in the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea that forced the logging interests to pay damages to indigenous land owners.
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Attorney and Anne
* Anne Milgram, New Jersey Attorney General from June 2007 to January 2010.
" Attorney Anne Bremner, who met Letourneau in 2002 during Fualaau's civil suit, said that Letourneau considered her affair with Fualaau to be " eternal and endless.
In her role as the prime minister's spouse, she went to the memorial of the victim of the W. R. Myers High School shooting in 1999, along with Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, Opposition Leader Preston Manning, and the Attorney General of Canada Anne McLellan.
The Gerard Family: Thomas, 1st Baron Gerard ( kneeling ); Gilbert Gerard, Attorney General 1559-81 ; Anne Radcliffe.
* Anne Milgram, former Attorney General of New Jersey
Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, Anne M. Tompkins, described the Liberty Dollar as " a unique form of domestic terrorism " that is trying " to undermine the legitimate currency of this country ".
Furthermore, the Attorney General of New Jersey Anne Milgram has expanded officers power regarding illegal immigrants.
Anne Milgram was confirmed by a 37-1 Senate vote to succeed Rabner as Attorney General.
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced on August 17 that Tocchet has been sentenced to two years probation in exchange for his plea.
Attorney and uncovered
Shortly after his re-election to the mayoralty in 1949, O ' Dwyer was confronted with a police corruption scandal uncovered by the Kings County District Attorney, Miles McDonald.
Investigations in 2002 and 2007 by the state Ombudsman and Attorney General uncovered violations of the state ’ s open meeting law by the Attorney General ’ s Office.
Secret papers uncovered by Mrs. Tham's solicitors, Bindmans, now show that the colonial Attorney General who exonerated the British troops of any wrongdoing at the time privately believed that mass public executions might deter other insurgents.
The assassination of Lambrakis initiated an enormous popular reaction, and soon after, investigator Christos Sartzetakis and Attorney General P. Delaportas uncovered connections of the police and army to far-right extremists.
Attorney and evidence
`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
Attorney Dwight L. Schwab, in behalf of defendant Philip Weinstein, argued there is no evidence linking Weinstein to the conspiracy, but Judge Powell declared this is a matter for the jury to decide.
The D. C. Attorney General had outside counsel investigate apparent destruction of evidence, and forensic investigations continue, and the testimony of the Chief of Police.
In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would " on a certain day … rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop.
In late July 1990, the Oakland District Attorney declined to press charges on Bari and Cherney, claiming insufficient evidence.
In response to the panel's report, Attorney General for England and Wales, Dominic Grieve MP, confirmed he would consider all the new evidence to evaluate whether the original inquest verdicts of accidental death could be overturned.
In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the MASON system plays a key part in the final case of the game, being used by Phoenix Wright to retell his investigation on the case in which he unknowingly used forged evidence, leading to his disbarment.
The People's Party requested that the Spanish government conducts investigations to ban EHAK-PCTV too, though the State Legal Service ( Abogacía General del Estado ) and the Attorney General's Office ( Fiscalía General del Estado ) found no evidence to support legal actions against the party.
In 1991, Robert M. Morgenthau, the District Attorney for New York County ( coterminous with the borough of Manhattan ), disclosed that his office had found evidence that BCCI secretly owned First American.
On September 14, 2004 Mississippi State Attorney General Jim Hood announced that he was gathering evidence for a charge of murder and intended to take the case to a grand jury.
The District Attorney claims the incident was a hoax, and that the evidence shows that Cousin was not shot.
In 1792, Hamilton advocated military action to suppress violent resistance in western North Carolina, but Attorney General Edmund Randolph argued there was insufficient evidence to legally justify such a reaction.
Due to insufficient evidence, Maricopa County Attorney Charles F. Hyder declined to file charges.
Some assert that Coke became Chief Justice due to his prosecutions of Raleigh and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, but there is no evidence to support this ; instead, it was traditional at the time that a retiring Chief Justice would be replaced with the Attorney General.
Attorney General Janet Reno determined there was " no evidence " of wrongdoing by O ' Leary.
U. S. Congressmen Sue Myrick ( R-NC ), Trent Franks ( R-AZ ), John Shadegg ( R-AZ ), and Paul Broun ( R-GA ) wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on October 21, 2009, that they were very concerned about CAIR's relationships with terrorist groups, and requesting that the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) provide each Congressman a summary of DOJ's evidence and findings that led DOJ to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial.
One target was the Washington, D. C., house of U. S. Attorney General Palmer, where the explosion killed the bomber, who evidence indicated was an Italian-American radical from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On May 26, 2010, the Ventura County District Attorney announced that no criminal charges will be filed because there was “ insufficient evidence ” to determine who was driving the car at the time of the collision.
" Based on his findings, in 1996 the Manhattan District Attorney opened a homicide investigation into Olson's death, but was unable to find enough evidence to bring charges.
This decision was questioned by many, and the Office of the Attorney General was invited by the prosecutor to perform an independent investigation of the available evidence.
May 2, 2008, the Attorney General's office determined that there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone present with a crime.
" In January 2006, an investigation by the Office of the NY State Attorney General into the matter found no evidence of criminal conduct on the part of the WJC.
* On September 3, 2003, the New York State Attorney General announced he had “ obtained evidence of widespread illegal trading schemes, ‘ late trading ’ and ‘ market timing ,’ that potentially cost mutual fund shareholders billions of dollars annually.
Attorney and widespread
But over the following 55 days, widespread press coverage, as well as pressure from Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher, the community of Hershey, and Dauphin County Orphans ' Court Senior Judge Warren G. Morgan, led to the sale being abandoned.
Despite this, Baldwin's choice of the Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip provoked widespread astonishment.
The independence of his opinion commanded widespread respect, a sentiment freely expressed when President Grant in March 1876 made him Secretary of War and three months later Attorney General of the United States.
After appointment as the U. S. Attorney for Eastern Massachusetts in 1890, he gained widespread notoriety in 1893 as the junior prosecutor in the Lizzie Borden murder case.
In a news release from Wisconsin's Department of Justice, Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen said "... the incidents of violation were numerous and widespread, and resulted in impacts to the streams and wetlands throughout the various watersheds.
Despite this, Baldwin's choice of the Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip provoked widespread astonishment.
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