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District Attorney's Office v. Osborne

Following the refusal, Osborne filed a claim for due process under 42 U.S.C. §1983, challenging a State's "deprivation of any rights... secured by the Constitution" and requested the DNA evidence against him be tested at his personal expense by Short Tandem Repeat (STR) analysis, a method more discriminating than both RFLP and DQ Alpha, and unavailable at the time of his trial.


Air Wave

Law clerk Lawrence "Larry" Jordan had recently graduated from law school and was an intern at the Brooklyn District Attorney office.

Alafair Burke

She went on to Stanford Law School in California; and, after graduating with distinction, she served as a Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney in Portland.

Baker, Louisiana

Rufus D. Hayes, the first Louisiana insurance commissioner, was an East Baton Rouge Parish district attorney and judge who resided in Baker at the time of his death in 2002.

Ossie Brown, who served as East Baton Rouge Parish district attorney from 1972—1984, grew up in Baker and graduated from Baker High School.

Betty Jane Gorin-Smith

The closing, however, was completed as Miller, after thirty-three years in office, lost reelection in 1998 to Paul E. Osborne, a Campbellsville Realtor.

Center Moriches, New York

Chester G. Osborne - American composer, American music educator, American writer, American trumpeter

Clarence Bradford

Clarence O'Neal Bradford, known as C.O. "Clarence" Bradford (and C.O. "Brad" Bradford during his campaign for Harris Country District Attorney), is a Houston City Council member, a former Chief of Police of Houston, Texas, and in 2008 an unsuccessful Democratic Party candidate for District Attorney of Harris County, Texas.

Cooder Graw

The band's singer, Matt Martindale, was the assistant district attorney of Gray County, Texas prior to devoting his full attention to the band.

Elliott Danforth

The Republican candidate Gilbert A. Deane had received 78 votes more than Democrat Edward B. Osborne, but the Board changed 92 votes and declared Osborne elected by a plurality of 14.

Eric LaFleur

Before entering private practice, LaFleur served as a felony prosecutor under District Attorney Harry Connick in New Orleans and for the Louisiana Department of Justice under former Attorney General of Louisiana Richard Ieyoub.

Fajitagate

It was subsequently alleged by then San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan that the elder Fagan, then-SFPD Chief Earl Sanders, and nine other officers were involved in a coverup of the initial November 20, 2002 criminal acts of the three off-duty officers.

Fred the Undercover Kitty

Fred the Undercover Kitty (May 2005 - August 10, 2006) was a domestic shorthaired cat who gained fame for his undercover work with the New York Police Department and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in the arrest of a suspect posing as a veterinary care provider.

George Washington Martin II

He entered the legal profession and served for five and a half years in Kings County as an assistant District attorney with John F. Clark.

Jeffrey Mark Deskovic

Deskovic proclaimed his innocence on several occasions, but was denied a reopening of the case by the then district attorney Jeanine Pirro.

Jerry Giesler

Giesler also won acquittal for Lili St. Cyr, Charlie Chaplin, gangster Bugsy Siegel, producer Walter Wanger–accused of shooting an agent who was paying too much attention to actress Joan Bennett, Wanger's wife, and Buron Fitts, a district attorney accused of improper conduct.

Jim Letten

After finishing his law degree at the Tulane University School of Law, Letten worked for Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick, Sr. for four years and then began his career as a prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice.

John D. Fredericks

Fredericks was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Z. Osborne.

John F. Osborne

He became an editor at Time–Life, eventually becoming the London-based editor, and then the Far East editor, based in Hong Kong in the 1950s.

John Kirkland Clark

(January 21, 1877 - January 20, 1963) was a New York City assistant district attorney under Charles S. Whitman, the New York County District Attorney.

Johnny Briscoe

Briscoe requested that evidence from the crime scene be tested for DNA but the St. Louis District Attorney refused.

Lisa Friel

In 2007, Friel and the other bureau chiefs of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Units in the New York City District Attorney's office were honoured by the Crime Victims Treatment Center of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals for their work in prosecuting sex offenders.

Loraine, Texas

George H. Mahon (1900–1985), a former county attorney, district attorney, and U.S. representative from the Lubbock-based congressional district is interred at Loraine City Cemetery.

Lynn A. Davis

In earlier years, Hot Springs had fallen under the influence of such mobsters as Al Capone, Frank Costello, and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who was arrested in New York City along with the Hot Springs chief of detectives on charges of ninety counts of prostitution brought by District Attorney and later Governor Thomas E. Dewey.

Michael Cherney

The District attorney's office stated in court that the cases of other suspects in the illegal data collection case "are at an advanced stage and close to indictment ."

Mitchell R. Morrissey

Mitchell R. "Mitch" Morrissey (born 1957) is the elected District Attorney of Colorado's Second Judicial District in Denver, Colorado.

No-knock warrant

Jefferson County District Attorney Dave Thomas investigated the matter and cleared the officers involved with the raid on the grounds that Mena had pointed a gun and fired it at SWAT officers, although who fired first remains unknown.

Paul Redmond Michel

He was assistant district attorney in the Office of the Deputy District Attorney for Investigations in Philadelphia from 1966 to 1974, as well as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve from 1966 to 1972.

Reasonable Doubts

Reasonable Doubts is primarily about the working relationship between Assistant District Attorney Tess Kaufman (Marlee Matlin), a prosecutor very sensitive to the rights of the accused, and hard-charging, gruff Detective Dicky Cobb (Mark Harmon), an old-fashioned cop with a "bust-the-perps" attitude.

Shanghaied in Astoria

The unpaid cast draws from locals, some which are well known, such as the Clatsop County District attorney who plays a bit part as sheriff.

Steven Avery

To avoid any appearance of conflict, Mark R. Rohrer, the Manitowoc County district attorney, requested that neighboring Calumet County authorities lead the investigation.

Thomas E. Delahanty II

From 1970 to 1974, Delahanty was an associate at Marshall, Raymond & Beliveau; County Attorney and Assistant County Attorney with the Androscoggin County Attorney's Office (1971 to 1975); and a District Attorney for Prosecutorial District 3 for Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties (1975 to 1980).

Trev Broudy

Republican Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley declined to press hate crime charges, a decision that sparked outrage in the community.

Virtopsy

As examinations typically are performed under the legal and task restraints of investigative authorities such as courts, prosecutors, district attorneys or police, there are constraints as to cost, time, objectivity and task specification depending on local law.

Voluntary association

In California, during the 1980s, then Los Angeles district attorney Ira Reiner decided to use California's unincorporated associations law to attack street gangs and the habit of their members of tagging graffiti in public spaces, in an attempt to abate vandalism and to recover cleanup costs.

William H. Osborne

William H. Osborne (born March 27, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, USA), former president and CEO of Federal Signal Corporation, was replaced by Dennis J. Martin on November 1, 2010.


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