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National Initiatives: Operation Homecoming - McKay Jenkins
Born in 1963, McKay Jenkins is the author of The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler’s Europe (2003). Meticulously researched, the book chronicles the Division’s two years of training in Colorado; its role in the recapture of Kiska, an Aleutian island occupied by the Japanese; and its critical role breaking the German Army’s Gothic Line in Italy’s Apennine Mountains in 1944. A former staff writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution , Jenkins has also written The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone (2000), and The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s (1999), and edited The Peter Matthiessen Reader (2000). He is completing a book about a murder in the Canadian Arctic. Jenkins teaches journalism and twentieth-century American literature at the University of Delaware. ... [Read More]
Victim Empowerment Student Material Resources 2
Crime Victims Research And Treatment Center , Medical University of South Carolina, ... Clearinghouse on Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly , College Resources, University of Delaware,Newark, DE 19716, (302) 831-3525 ... [Read More]
2003 Delaware Bar Examination Questions
Atlantic Beachfront Company ("ABC") is a Delaware corporation that develops and sells luxury homes along the East Coast of the United States. ABC was founded ten years ago by Dan Davis, who has served continuously since then as a member and chairman of ABC's board of directors. Throughout that ten-year period, the four other members of ABC's five-member board have been: Evan Eaton, a former U.S. Senator; Fran Frost, an independent investor who owns 3% of ABC's stock; Greg Davis, the son of Dan Davis and a ten-year ABC employee who became ABC's president in 2001; and Hope Davis, the wife of Dan Davis and an economics professor at a prestigious university. Evan Eaton and Fran Frost have no other business or familial relationships with ABC or the Davis family. Collectively, Dan Davis and his family own 25% of ABC's stock. ... [Read More]
First State Judiciary - Court of Common Pleas History
The colorful Percy Warren Green was appointed to the Common Pleas bench following Leonard Wales' death. Born in Booth's Corner, Pennsylvania in 1889, Judge Green graduated from Wilmington High School in 1907 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1911. After a brief stint as assistant professor of finance at Washington State College, he returned to Wilmington and read law under William S. Hilles. He was admitted to the bar in 1916. Because he had no formal legal education, he referred to himself as a “hatchet and saw” lawyer; however, of his mentor he had nothing but highest praise: “Mr. Hilles on one side of a table and a pupil on the other side constituted a university.” Before his appointment to the court's bench, Green served the people of Delaware in a number of positions, including attorney general from 1933 to 1939, and deputy Municipal Court judge from 1941 to 1943. Green was an amateur Delaware historian and an avid, some might say compulsive, coll ... [Read More]
July
--07/12/05 Middle Eastern and North African Students Begin Middle East Partnership Initiative “Study of the U.S.” Institutes at Benedictine University, University of Delaware, and Montana State University ... --07/08/05 Anniversary of Paul Klebnikov’s Murder ... [Read More]
First State Judiciary - Superior Court in the News!
In a decision released Monday, the five justices said Superior Court Judge John E. Babiarz Jr. "failed to give appropriate consideration" to jury votes of 10-2 and 9-3 in favor of sentencing Sadiki Garden to life in prison on the charges of murder and murder during the commission of a felony. Jury sentencing votes in capital cases are recommendations in Delaware; judges make the final decision. The Supreme Court returned the case to Superior Court for Judge Babiarz to reconsider the sentence. He still may sentence Garden to death but must give "great weight" to the jury's decision, the court said in its unanimous opinion. When Babiarz sentenced Garden to death, he cited Garden's criminal history, lack of remorse for Rhudy's death and his inability to conform to prison rules as aggravating factors. ... [Read More]
About Us
From 1991 to 1992, Mr. Connolly clerked for Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. From 1992 to 1999, Mr. Connolly was an Assistant United States Attorney. In that position, he led an 18-month multi-agency investigation into the disappearance of Governor Carper's secretary that resulted in the indictment of Thomas J. Capano for first degree murder. He was cross-designated as a Special Assistant Attorney General to co-prosecute State v. Capano and won a first degree murder conviction. In addition, Mr. Connolly prosecuted the first federal criminal civil rights case in Delaware history. He has litigated more than 40 cases in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and prosecuted over 100 defendants for various offenses. Since 2001, he has served as United States Attorney for the District of Delaware. Colm and his wife Anne have four children. ... [Read More]
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