Archive for the Courts Category

Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite

The Supreme Court seems headed toward telling police they have to explicitly warn criminal suspects that their lawyer can be present during any interrogation.
The arguments in front of the justices Monday were the latest over how far the Miranda warning rights go.
Kevin Dwayne Powell was given Miranda warnings that included telling him he had a [...]

External recruitment of judges (fact sheet)

The status of the judiciary in France resulting primarily from the Constitution and Ordinance No. 58-1270 of 22 December 1958, which has been amended several times (including on 5 March 2007 by Organic Law No. 2007 — 287). Magistrates are judges (judges), the Crown (prosecutors) and lay judges (Appeals Tribunal …). The recruitment of the [...]