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Month: December 2023

Florida GOP censures Chair Christian Ziegler and strips him of authority amid sexual assault investigation

By Denise Royal and Carlos Suarez, CNN (CNN) — The leadership of Florida’s Republican Party voted Sunday to censure Chairman Christian Ziegler and remove his authority as he faces an investigation into sexual assault. In an emergency closed-door meeting in Orlando, the group also reduced Ziegler’s salary to $1 annually. Ziegler will no longer be able

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Judge overturns Mississippi death penalty case, says racial bias in picking jury wasn’t fully argued

GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has overturned the death penalty conviction of a Mississippi man stemming from a fatal store robbery in 2004. The judge ruling recenlty that the man’s defense lawyer didn’t get to fully argue at trial that the prosecution was dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons. U.S. District Judge Michael

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