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Recent Examples of drumhead court-martial
And men like Lang Long, a Cambodian who was trafficked and sold into the Thai fishing industry, are modern-day Billy Budds in a system that lacks even the rough justice of a drumhead court-martial.
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Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drumhead court-martial
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In the meantime, according to other media reports, Trump’s team has been drawing up its own list of generals to remove from their posts and perhaps even court-martial.—
Ronald R. Krebs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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Suspicious of Dreyfus as a Jew and as an outsider from the École polytechnique, unsavoury army officers secretly arrested him, brought in some forensic experts with dubious theories and convicted him of treason in a court-martial.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Dec. 2024
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The high court held that Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, was a U.S. citizen because he was born in the country.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Jan. 2025
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Montana’s high court petition was backed the National Republican Senatorial Committee, 15 other Republican state attorneys general and the America First Legal Foundation.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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On Friday, the supreme court reversed the appellate court, deciding that Luebbers had followed state law on consecutive sentences.—
Laura A. Bischoff,
The Enquirer,
2 Nov. 2024
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The federal lawsuit from Pennsylvania would go to an intermediate appeals court first, while the Michigan and North Carolina cases would be heard by state appellate and supreme courts before arriving at the nation's highest court.—
Catherine Cole,
CBS News,
28 Oct. 2024
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He was charged with third-degree assault and given a desk appearance ticket, which requires him to make an appearance in criminal court for an arraignment.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 2025
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The United States and Israel were among only seven countries that voted against the creation of the criminal court in 1998.—
Karoun Demirjian,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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