In the United States,a district attorney (DA),county attorney,county prosecutor,state's attorney,prosecuting attorney,commonwealth's attorney,state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor and/or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area,typically a county or a group of counties. The exact name and scope of the office varies by state. Generally,the prosecutor represents the people of the jurisdiction. With the exception of three states,district attorneys are elected,unlike similar roles in other common law jurisdictions.
A subpoena duces tecum,or subpoena for production of evidence,is a court summons ordering the recipient to appear before the court and produce documents or other tangible evidence for use at a hearing or trial. In some jurisdictions,it can also be issued by legislative bodies such as county boards of supervisors.
In United States federal law,the Daubert standard is a rule of evidence regarding the admissibility of expert witness testimony. A party may raise a Daubert motion,a special motion in limine raised before or during trial,to exclude the presentation of unqualified evidence to the jury. The Daubert trilogy are the three United States Supreme Court cases that articulated the Daubert standard:
William Holcombe Pryor Jr. is an American lawyer who has served as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2020. He was appointed as a United States circuit judge of the court by President George W. Bush in 2004. He is a former commissioner of the United States Sentencing Commission. Previously,he was the attorney general of Alabama,from 1997 to 2004.
Robert ("Bob") Fellmeth is an American lawyer. He is a tenured Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law,holder of the Price Chair in Public Interest Law,and executive director of the Center for Public Interest Law and the Children's Advocacy Institute.
Raymond W. Gruender is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Hamline University School of Law was a private law school affiliated with Hamline University in Saint Paul,Minnesota. It was founded in 1972 as the Midwestern School of Law by a group of legal professionals. In 1976,Midwestern School of Law was absorbed by Hamline University as its own school of law.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri is a trial level federal district court based in St. Louis,Missouri,with jurisdiction over fifty counties in the eastern half of Missouri. The court is one of ninety-four district-level courts which make up the first tier of the U.S. federal judicial system. Judges of this court preside over civil and criminal trials on federal matters that originate within the borders of its jurisdiction. It is organized into three divisions,with court held in St. Louis,Hannibal,and Cape Girardeau.
Michael Martin Mihm is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois,with chambers in Peoria,Illinois. In 2004,he received the USAID Outstanding Citizen Achievement Citation for his work with the Russian judicial system.
The Judiciary of Vermont is the state court system of Vermont,charged with Vermont law.
Lynn S. Adelman is an American lawyer,judge,and former politician. He has served as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin,since December 1997. Earlier in his career,he served 20 years in the Wisconsin State Senate,representing southwest Milwaukee County and neighboring municipalities.
Joan N. Ericksen is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
John R. Tunheim is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Susan Webber Wright is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Wright is a former judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. She received national attention when she first dismissed the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Paula Jones against President Bill Clinton in 1998,and then,in 1999,found Clinton to be in civil contempt of court.
Greg Gerard Guidry is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He is a former associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia,in Pennsylvania,U.S.,is a significant episode in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States,Ireland and elsewhere. The Philadelphia abuses were substantially revealed through a grand jury investigation in 2005. In early 2011,a new grand jury reported extensive new charges of abusive priests active in the archdiocese. In 2012,a guilty plea by priest Edward Avery and the related trial and conviction of William Lynn and mistrial on charges against James J. Brennan followed from the grand jury's investigations. In 2013,Charles Engelhardt and teacher Bernard Shero were tried,convicted and sentenced to prison. Lynn was the first official to be convicted in the United States of covering up abuses by other priests in his charge and other senior church officials have been extensively criticized for their management of the issue in the archdiocese.
Wilhelmina Marie Wright is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She is the only jurist in Minnesota's history to be state district court judge,appellate court judge and state supreme court justice. She was formerly an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court,a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals,and a judge of the Minnesota District Court,Second Judicial District.
Ann Marie Donnelly is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Anne K. McKeig is an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. She is its first Native American justice and the first Native American Woman to serve on any State Supreme Court. She was previously a judge of the Minnesota Fourth District Court in Hennepin County from 2008 to 2016.
Mitchell A. Dubow was a 20th-century American labor lawyer and member of the National Lawyers Guild,who defended alleged communists involved in the Hiss-Chambers Case,argued against loyalty oaths,laws,and regulations during the Second Red Scare ("McCarthyism");and later championed disability laws as Judge of District Court,Sixth Judicial District for the State of Minnesota.
