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An Oklahoma district attorney declined to file charges in connection with the death of nonbinary teenager Nex Benedict, officials said Thursday.

Benedict, a 16-year-old student at Owasso High School near Tulsa, died by suicide on Feb. 8, one day after a fight in a high school bathroom.

“Based upon the investigation of the Owasso Police Department, I am in agreement with their assessment that the filing of juvenile
charges are not warranted,” Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen A. Kunzweiler said in a statement.

“From all of the evidence gathered, this fight was an instance of mutual combat,” Kunzweiler wrote. “I do not have a reasonable belief that the State of Oklahoma could sustain its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt if charges were presented for prosecution.”

Benedict, who identified as nonbinary and used they/them pronouns, was sent to a hospital by a school nurse immediately following the fight. Benedict, while in the hospital, spoke to police officers and told them the bathroom fight had started when three girls harassed them. Benedict responded by throwing water at the girls, which sparked the fight.

Owassa police during their investigation discovered brief notes written by Benedict that appeared

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Legal Update

Uncertain and afraid: Florida’s immigrants grapple with a disrupted reality under new law

26/12/2025

MIAMI (AP) — For many in Florida’s vast immigrant community, daily life in recent months has become one governed entirely by fear.

Some try to drive as little as possible and make fewer trips to the supermarket. Others no longer take their children to the park and worry about allowing them to attend school. Others are still hiding out — avoiding travel to other states, not getting regular medical check-ups, or closing their businesses and leaving town. And many are just on high alert — all because of a new immigration law Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in May.

One of the strictest in the nation, the law criminalized transporting immigrants lacking permanent legal status into the state, invalidated any US government identification they might have and blocked local governments from providing them with ID cards. Florida hospitals that accept Medicaid are now mandated to ask patients about immigration status and businesses employing 25 or more people must verify their workers’ legal status.

Other aspects of the law go into effect next year.

DeSantis, who is running for presidentsigned the bill in hopes of appealing to conservative voters and has criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for the

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Case Lawyer

Highlights from Trump’s classified documents hearing after Judge Cannon denies a dismissal request

25/12/2025

Before leaving after hearing arguments this morning, Trump looked around the room and with his lips pursed, eyed special counsel Jack Smith. He looked left to co-defendant Walt Nauta and gave a slight nod. He rarely looked around the room otherwise, instead looking at Judge Cannon, sometimes with his head cocked, such as when there was a discussion of Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified documents or John Brennan’s security clearance.

As he got up to leave, standing and beginning to walk toward a side exit, Trump leaned on the prosecutors’ table almost as if losing his step briefly.

During the hearing, Trump spoke intently with his defense attorney Todd Blanche at different moments. Sometimes he would lean forward toward the judge, his arms crossed. At other times, Trump pushed his back against the seat.

Jack Smith, seated on a bench behind prosecuting attorneys Jay Bratt and David Harbach, made very brief, frequent glances around the room in Trump’s direction and toward the judge. He looked up as Trump’s attorney Emil Bove argued that Clinton was not prosecuted for her handling of classified documents.

Before the start of the hearing, court staff brought in additional chairs for the defense table.

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Legal Update

Bill C-21: Liberal gun control bill becomes law

24/12/2025

The federal Liberal government’s contentious gun control legislation Bill C-21 passed the Senate without changes on Thursday, becoming law on Friday.

The bill passed the House of Commons in May after months of division and political acrimony. The version that made it to the Senate was significantly expanded from what the federal government had initially tabled a year ago.

Bill C-21 passed by a vote of 60 to 24and with applause in the upper chamber.

The legislation includes measures to:

Tighten gun laws to include “red flag” and “yellow flag” provisions relating to a gun owner posing a risk to themselves or others;

Impose a “freeze” on the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns in Canada;

A prospective Criminal Code “technical definition” of what constitutes a prohibited assault-style firearm, meant to “cement in law” a permanent ban on future models once the bill comes into force;

A series of provisions meant to make it illegal to make or buy ghost guns and to combat firearms smuggling; and

Wording makes clear the government’s intent to uphold Indigenous treaty rights.

The bill also includes a requirement for a parliamentary review of the technical definition five

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Law Firm

Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. f/k/a Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuit Pending: Contact The Gross Law Firm Before April 29, 2024 to Discuss Your Rights

23/12/2025

NEW YORK, March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. f/k/a Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II.

Shareholders who purchased shares of KIND during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to take part in any recovery.

https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/nextdoor-holdings-inc-fka-khosla-ventures-acquisition-co-ii-loss-submission-form/?id=72097&from=4

CLASS PERIOD: July 6, 2021 to November 8, 2022

ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) Nextdoor’s financial results prior to the November 2021 merger with Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II, had been temporarily inflated by the ephemeral effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had pulled forward demand for Nextdoor’s platform and cannibalized future advertising revenue growth; (b) rather than being sustained, such growth trends had already begun reversing at the start of the class period; (c) Nextdoor’s total addressable market was materially smaller than the 312 million households represented to investors; (d) by the start of the class period, Nextdoor’s most important market – the US market – was already substantially saturated, impairing the Company’s ability to

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Case Lawyer

Supreme Court case raises questions of police powers, lawyer says

21/12/2025

Supreme Court in Wellington, Coat of Arms

Supreme Court at Wellington.
Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King

The lawyer for a man appealing an aggravated robbery charge in the Supreme Court says his case raises deep questions about the limits of police powers, privacy, and fundamental human rights.

Mahia Tamiefuna was convicted of the charge in 2021, and central to the case was a photo that was taken of him illegally by a police officer.

Tamiefuna was the passenger in a car which was randomly stopped and his photo was taken while the occupants were standing on the side of the road as the vehicle was impounded.

The photo was then allowed to be used in court in the successful conviction.

That evidence was the “lynch pin” that the entire case against Tamiefuna was based on, his attorney Susan Gray said.

The Supreme Court is looking at whether the Court of Appeal was right to find the photo of Tamiefuna was “improperly obtained”, and whether that court was correct to allow it as evidence anyway.

But the case could have sweeping implications.

A decision could settle whether police are allowed to photograph members of the public on the street who are not being targeted for a specific crime.

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Attorney

Juvenile cases are big business for a handful of lawyers in Cuyahoga County

20/12/2025

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their Cleveland newsletter and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook.

The juvenile court system is supposed to ensure that young people accused of crimes have legal representation, even if their families can’t afford a lawyer.

But in Cuyahoga County, some courtrooms resemble hiring halls for favored attorneys who get hundreds of assignments yearly, while others get none.

According to the most recent year of invoices submitted between October 2022 through September 2023, the juvenile court paid at least 60 attorneys to represent hundreds of children accused of crimes. Of those, judges steered more than two-thirds of the work to just 10 of the lawyers, according to a Marshall Project – Cleveland analysis of the most recent case data and state reimbursement filings.

Traffic lights are on in front of the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Justice Center at dusk. — In one year, the court paid at least 60 attorneys to represent children accused of crimes. Of those, judges at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court steered more than two-thirds of the work to just 10 of the lawyers.

Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court’s system

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Attorney

O’Neill Burke, Harris too close to call – NBC Chicago

19/12/2025

Many races in Tuesday’s election have been called, although some races and referendums remain outstanding. You can see live election results from the Illinois Primary here.

One day after the Illinois primary election, the race for who will be the Democratic Party’s nominee for Cook County State’s Attorney remains too close to call.

As of 5 am Wednesday, Eileen O’Neill Burke had a narrow lead over Clayton Harris. With 99% of precincts reporting, they’re separated by roughly 9,000 votes.

The Chicago Board of Elections noted that mail-in ballots are continuing to be processed.

“Per Illinois election code, all late-arriving but properly postmarked (by March 19th) vote-by-mail ballots have a two-week period to be counted – and that would bring us to April 2nd,” CBOE director of public information Max Bever said.

Bever noted however that the vast majority of vote-by-mail ballots came back on election day or night, and the immediately Wednesday and Thursday following.

“By the time those are processed and included into the unofficial results, we may have a much clearer picture by this weekend,” Bever said, of the race.

Earlier in the day, Bever noted that Chicago’s voter turnout was “shockingly low,” saying that only 20% of

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Law News

Trump’s media merger is unlikely to stop Letitia James from targeting his assets on Monday

18/12/2025

Former President Trump stands to gain billions in stock shares in a merger announced Friday of his social media company and a shell company. But that deal may not keep New York Attorney General Letitia James from moving to seize his assets on Monday in order to satisfy the $464 million bond stemming from the judgment in his financial fraud trial. Here are the latest legal developments involving the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for 2024.

New York financial fraud

Media merger will give Trump cash windfall, but won’t shield his assets from Monday’s bond deadline

Key players: New York Attorney General Letitia James, Judge Arthur Engoron, Trump Media & Technology Group, Digital World Acquisition Corp.

On Friday, Trump’s social media company completed a merger with a shell company that could give the former president a cash infusion at a time when he is struggling to pay legal bills and meet more than half a billion dollars in bond obligations, CNN reported.
But the deal, which is estimated to be worth more than $3 billion for Trump on paper, won’t prevent James from moving on Monday to seize his assets to try to satisfy the $464 billion bond owed

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