The Pima County Attorney’s Office said Tuesday the Tucson jury returned the death penalty verdict against 43-year-old Shawna Forde.
Forde, 43, founder of Minutemen American Defense, showed no emotion when the verdict was read, but her attorney, Eric Larsen, said he did not expect the jury to come back with a death sentence.
Twenty-nine-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, were killed in the robbery.
“They have no evidence against her—no fingerprints, no DNA.  My client was not on the scene.”
Forde’s Defense Attorney
The jury deliberated only a few hours before coming to the …

One valley attorney on more than one occasion claimed she could communicate with clients’ dead loved ones and that’s not what got her into trouble – it’s that she apparently lied about it.
Attention from the Arizona Supreme Court in the form of a disciplinary commission isn’t the kind of focus any practicing attorney would want, but that’s just what Charna Johnson, a Phoenix lawyer got when she claimed she channeled spirits of her clients’ deceased family members.
Cutting through the legalese in the 30 page report …

TO tackle faltering productivity, the government plans to unleash a wave of reforms to cut the cost of doing businesses across state borders.
After meetings of the Council of Australian Governments at the weekend, state and federal leaders have agreed to develop more regulatory reforms focused on cutting red tape for businesses.
The government hopes to cut business costs by harmonising various state laws.

Since 2008 COAG has been aiming to create a ”seamless national economy” by removing inconsistent or unnecessary regulations across 27 areas, ranging from …

Tweeting is to be allowed from hearings at the highest court in the UK, new Supreme Court guidance states. The Supreme Court has published guidance on its practice relating to the use of “live text based communications” in the courtroom. The Supreme Court has today given the ‘green light’ to allow people to ‘tweet’ from inside the courtroom.
It has issued guidance on the use of live text-based communication by legal teams, journalists and members of the public of what is going on in court.
Lord Phillips, president of …

A federal Treasury grant program popular among renewable energy developers has become the subject of a lawsuit, and a federal judge recently denied part of the government’s wish for a dismissal of the case.
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Car-Ownership Deduction Disallowed In Ransom v. FIA Card Servs., N.A., No. 09-907 , a petition for Chapter 13 bankruptcy relief, the Supreme Court affirmed the Ninth Circuit’s affirmance of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel’s order denying the confirmation of the debtor’s proposed plan, where a debtor who does not make loan or lease payments may not take the car-ownership deduction.

Challenge to Treasury Department Regulations In Mayo Found. for Med.