Posted on Dec 20, 2010 By Stephan J. Siegel
Until 1986, a common practice of unscrupulous prosecutors prosecuting black defendants was to eliminate potential black jurors by exercising peremptory challenges against them and not allowing them to ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By Stephan J. Siegel
One of the great protections provided to owners of real estate was enacted in 1677 and was called the "Statute of Frauds." The law was authored by Sir Leoline Jenkins, an English gentleman who ...
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