He is prohibited from contacting any witnesses in the case and is restricted to three days a week in the office.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 July 2026
Defense attorneys chose not to call certain experts and limited their questioning of the state's witnesses to avoid violating the agreement, according to the motion.
Court reporters say the job can be performed only by a human being, who can intervene to ensure everyone is heard and who bears responsibility if a transcript is missing or incomplete.
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Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2026
Cunningham shared her thoughts on the White House's post while speaking to reporters on Friday.
In 2020, for example, the high court ruled that Muslim men who claimed that their religious rights were violated for being placed on the government’s no-fly list after refusing to serve as FBI informants could sue the FBI agents for damages.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
More recently, the Department of Justice charged the Southern Poverty Law Center — a civil rights nonprofit accused by Republicans of targeting conservatives in its work tracking extremists — with defrauding donors through payments to informants.
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