A court of general sessions was a type of court originally established as a colonial court of quarter sessions in the British North American colonies....
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The courts of quarter sessions or quarter sessions were local courts that were traditionally held at four set times each year in the Kingdom of England...
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the District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act of 1970, the Court of General Sessions was combined with the Juvenile Court (established...
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Beauregard Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017...
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The Massachusetts General Court, formally the General Court of Massachusetts, is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts located in...
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December 31. In case of a vacancy, an acting district attorney was appointed by the Court of General Sessions until the Governor of New York filled the...
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(the Court of General Sessions). The Circuit Court is the state trial court of general jurisdiction in South Carolina. It is also a superior court, having...
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he served as a juror on a manslaughter case in the New York Court of General Sessions. Though he and the other eleven jurors initially attended begrudgingly...
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Oyer and terminer (redirect from Court of Oyer and Terminer)
effective in 1896. The New York court's jurisdiction was the same as that of the Court of General Sessions or County Court, except that Oyer and Terminer...
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Joseph Bradley Varnum (category Speakers of the United States House of Representatives)
a Justice of the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas and Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Court of General Sessions. He was a member of the U.S. House...
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Recorder (judge) (redirect from Recorder's court)
The Recorder of New York City was one of the judges of the Court of General Sessions (the local court of general jurisdiction on criminal cases) and presided...
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Mancuso (category Surnames of Italian origin)
Francis Xavier Mancuso (1887–1970), leader of Tammany Hall and judge for New York's Court of General Sessions Frank Mancuso Jr. (born 1958), movie producer...
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Assizes (redirect from Court of Assize)
(/əˈsaɪzɪz/), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished...
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Samuel Pierce (category African-American members of the Cabinet of the United States)
Undersecretary of Labor in 1955. Pierce was appointed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to serve as a judge of the New York City Court of General Sessions, 1959–1960...
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equal representation. The General Assembly meets under its President or the UN secretary-general in annual sessions at the General Assembly Building, within...
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Maine (redirect from State of Maine)
authority of the Province of Nova Scotia, and together with present-day New Brunswick formed the Nova Scotia county of Sunbury, with its court of general sessions...
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Waterboro, Maine (section Sites of interest)
Massachusetts General Court incorporated the township as Waterborough. In 1790, Old Corners became the site of the Court of General Sessions, although in...
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United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sessions served as FBI director from...
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Matthew Whitaker (category Attorneys general of the United States)
States Attorney General from November 2018 to February 2019. He was appointed to that position by President Donald Trump after Jeff Sessions resigned at Trump's...
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not defend an executive order in court. Following the resignation of Jeff Sessions as attorney general at the request of President Donald Trump, Rosenstein...
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Magistrates' Courts and the Court of Special Sessions. (The work and personnel of the New York County Court of General Sessions, and the County Court in Bronx...
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Francis Xavier Mancuso (category Leaders of Tammany Hall)
(October 30, 1887 – July 8, 1970) was a leader of Tammany Hall and a judge for New York's Court of General Sessions. He died on July 8, 1970, in Daytona Beach...
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of the New York Court of General Sessions Robert S. Stevens (judge) (1916–2000), judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court Justice Stevens (disambiguation)...
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the Court of General Sessions of the City of New York refused to compel a priest to testify. The Court opined: It is essential to the free exercise of a...
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the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Samuel Pierce (1922–2000), judge of the New York Court of General Sessions Justice Pierce (disambiguation)...
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of Presidents." Following the creation of the county, Gay's Tavern was the site of a Court of General Sessions on August 25, 1794. They ordered that the...
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Sterling, Massachusetts (section Points of interest)
2021. Retrieved November 11, 2021. "Records of the Court of general sessions of the peace for the county of Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1731 to 1737"...
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Peace presided over Courts of General Sessions of the Peace for their individual counties. Justices of the Peace have lost almost all of their judicial hearing...
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of New York City was a municipal officer of New York City from 1683 until 1907. He was at times a judge of the Court of General Sessions, the Court of...
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2003 standoff in Abbeville, South Carolina (redirect from 2003 Abbeville (S. C.) right-of-way standoff)
County Court of General Sessions. Judge Alexander Macauley presided over the week-long trial. Rita Bixby was found guilty by a jury of one count of conspiracy...
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