A federal appeals court appeared divided Tuesday as it heard arguments about whether to overturn the conviction of former Florida U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, who contends that a juror was improperly removed from her 2017 trial because he said the Holy Spirit told him Brown was not guilty of fraud and tax charges.
TALLAHASSEE A federal appeals court appeared divided Tuesday as it heard arguments about whether to overturn the conviction of former Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown, who contends that a juror was improperly removed from her 2017 trial because he said the “Holy Spirit” told him Brown was not guilty of fraud and tax charges.
The full 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing whether U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan was justified in replacing the juror known as Juror 13 with an alternate before Brown was convicted on 18 felony counts related to a charity scam.
Paul Clement, a former U.S. solicitor general representing Brown, argued that Corrigan made a “clear legal error” by replacing the juror because of the statement about the Holy Spirit. He pointed to people commonly praying for divine guidance.
A federal appeals court appeared divided Tuesday as it heard arguments about whether to overturn the conviction of former Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown, who contends that a juror was improperly removed from her 2017 trial because he said the “Holy Spirit” told him Brown was not guilty of fraud
The State Emergency Commission convened yesterday, February 20, and made a decision to ease current lockdown measures and resume normal operations of 95 percent of businesses in Ulaanbaatar city from February 23, Tuesday.
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The daily COVID-19 press briefing held in the afternoon of February 21 has reported that a total of 52 new positive cases of COVID-19 were detected in the past day.
A total of 44,018 people were tested for the coronavirus on February 20 by PCR laboratories in Ulaanbaatar city and Selenge, Darkhan-Uul, Dornod, Dornogobi and Orkhon aimags.
24 of the newly-confirmed cases were detected in the scope of the Ulaanbaatar-wide One Door-One Testing campaign underway until February 23, when the current strict lockdown in the capital city is scheduled to be lifted.
The 10th and 11th days of the testing campaign will continue in the capital city’s most populous district – Bayanzurkh on February 21 and 22.