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TROY -- As Judge Mel Kemmer sat in his courtroom looking through the criminal charges file, the prisoner whose name was just called stepped in front of the camera at the Miami County Jail across the Courthouse Plaza.
The judge greeted the prisoner with a "good morning" before launching into the process of arraigning her on the drug possession charges that brought her before the court Friday morning.
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Attorneys for USC cornerback Eric Wright will ask that today's arraignment hearing be continued, which means Wright probably won't enter a plea to any expected rape charges.
Wright, who was arrested on suspicion of rape last month, is expected to be formally charged at his arraignment today, according to the district attorney's office. However, his attorney, Carmen Trutanich, will not be present for personal reasons and will ask a judge to continue the hearing for at least two weeks.
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... concrete, when the accusation prompts arraignment and restrictions on the accused's liberty, see, e...7 (Fla. 1992) ("The term 'arraign' simply means to be called before a court officer and charged wi...
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Attorneys for USC cornerback Eric Wright will ask that today's arraignment hearing be continued, which means Wright probably won't enter a plea to any expected rape charges.
Wright, who was arrested on suspicion of rape last month, is expected to be formally charged at his arraignment today, according to the district attorney's office. However, his attorney, Carmen Trutanich, will not be present for personal reasons and will ask a judge to continue the hearing for at least two weeks.
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... Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the means by which a defendant may validly waive that right....Post-arraignment interrogation is a "critical stage" in which the S...
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Criminal defendants have a right to counsel when their bail is set, Maryland's top court unanimously held on Wednesday. Without finding a constitutional guarantee, the Court of Appeals said the state's Public Defender Act entitles defendants to have a lawyer present at the initial bail hearing. "What the Court of Appeals has done is end the system of incarceration without representation," said Michael Schatzow, the Venable LLP attorney who argued the case on behalf of defendants seeking counsel. A majority of the Court of Appeals also rejected the Office of the Public Defender's request for a delay so it could secure additional funding and personnel to provide representation to indigent defendants at 170,000 initial bail hearings annually. "The public defender's asserted defense of bud...
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... longer delay was reasonable considering the means of transportation and the distance to be trave... a district court's finding that a pre-arraignment delay was reasonable for clear error." Liera, 585 ...
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... the district court's order that his arraignment be conducted by closed circuit television. We gran... district court ruled that arraignment by means of audiovisual interactive technology did not viol...
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... insist that the state police make the arraignment before a state judge as required by state law. The...Its means are arraignment "without unnecessary delay." Here,...
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By Chandra Johnson
The Taos News
... a public apology at the group's arraignment the following Monday. S nchez' decision means that...