A three judge federal court in San Antonio a few minutes ago told the Republican and Democratic parties in Texas to plan their primaries not prior to Tuesday, May 29. The primary is currently set for April 3, but because of delays in the ongoing court challenge by minority plaintiffs to the election districts drawn by the Republican controlled legislature, election administrators from Dallas and Tarrant counties and other large cities said they could not draw the maps, set new voter registration cards and send out overseas ballots in time. The Republican Party of Texas pushed for an April 17 primary or at the least April 24. The judges sided with elections officials that there wouldn’t be enough time to prepare for those dates either.
13 Feb
Posted by Zac Croft as Law and Legal Topics
SPRINGFIELD 11 A District Court jury on Tuesday found Julian Pellegrino guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol in November 1 as he was awaiting trial for injuring another motorist while driving drunk in 9. Judge Robert A. Gordon sentenced Pellegrino, 43, to 1 days in the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow.
The sentence will be served after Pelligrino completes his term for operating under the influence of alcohol causing serious bodily injury. He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor offense in November in Hampden Superior Court for the 9 Chicopee car crash that seriously injured another driver. Pellegrino, of 9 Savoy St., was sentenced to 19 years in the Ludlow jail, with 1 months to be served and the rest suspended with three years of probation.
An Orlando man who robbed a Pine Hills GameStop store four times at gunpoint was convicted in federal court today and faces a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
During the third robbery at the store on Hiawassee Road in 2009, Kenneth Harris shot a clerk in the leg after he was told the safe had a 10-minute delay, prosecutors said.
Harris, 41, has a long criminal history that includes five other armed-robbery convictions, authorities said. Read all post…
Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee has apologised for calling Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker a clown – but not for anything else.
Brownlee has instead further turned the screws on the Christchurch City Council, telling Parliament yesterday that its plan had to be “a lot better than `we’re just going to put up the rates and we’re going to borrow a lot more money’”.
Parker, who remains on a controversial tour in China, took a call from Brownlee yesterday apologising for comments he made to The Christchurch Mail labelling the mayor a “clown”.
“Naturally, I have accepted his apology … We are all working under considerable pressure at this time,” Parker said in a statement. <
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The romantic rival of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend testified Thursday that he saw the defendant with his arm around her neck months before her death.
Mike Burns talked about the chokehold at George Huguely V’s murder trial. Huguely is accused of killing Yeardley Love in May 2010 by slamming her head against a wall. Huguely’s defense maintains Love died in part by taking the prescription drug Adderall and drinking alcohol.
Love was on Virginia’s women’s lacrosse team. Burns played for North Carolina.
At a party at Huguely’s apartment complex three months before Love’s death, Burns said he heard yells from Huguely’s bedroom. W