DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S KALEI GRANT HONORED AS GUEST OF SENATOR MAZIE HIRONO AT STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS Posted on Feb 6, 2023 in Latest Department News, Newsroom HONOLULU, HI – US Senator Mazie K. Hirono has invited Kalei Grant, Assistant Coordinator of the Hawai’i Department of the Attorney General’s Missing Child Center Hawaii (MCCH), to be her guest at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address. Grant has served as the Assistant Coordinator at MCCH since 2018. Grant is a Native Hawaiian survivor of sex trafficking and an advocate leader in the movement to combat human trafficking in Hawaii.…
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Thank the Maricopa County attorney for not being a MAGA Republican
Arizona Republicans should pay heed to what happened this week at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Rachel Mitchell, the Republican elected to the job in 2022, announced she would not prosecute two Phoenix police officers who shot and killed a man who was hurling rocks at a patrol car and later at them. Mitchell was in charge of the case because she did not run for office as a MAGA Republican. She did not kiss the Trump ring. She did not climb into the Stop-the-Steal barrel and ride it over Fantasy Falls to crushing defeat, as did so many other Arizona Republicans.…
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Fiji’s former attorney general is taken into custody
SYDNEY, May 1 (Reuters) – Fiji’s former attorney general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, who is also general secretary of the Pacific island nation’s main opposition party Fiji First, was taken into custody on Monday after being charged with abuse of office, police said . The charge relates to a complaint lodged by an election official in February, the Fiji police said in a statement. “Mr Sayed-Khaiyum remains in custody and will be produced in the Suva Magistrates Court tomorrow,” the statement said. The criminal charge was approved by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution, it added. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment outside of office hours.…
Colin Kaepernick to pay for autopsy in Ga. jail death, attorney says
Comment on this storyComments Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist, will pay for an independent autopsy to reexamine the death of Lashawn Thompson, who died last year in a Fulton County jail cell infested with insects, attorney Ben Crump said at a news conference Thursday. Thompson’s death in September sparked an outrage last week when his family released documents and graphic photos describing the squalid conditions of the Atlanta jail where he was kept. A report by the Fulton County medical examiner said that Thompson had an “extremely severe” infestation of small insects across his body but that his cause of death was undetermined.…