He appears regularly at law schools around the South, as well as in states covered by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, mostly in the northern Midwest. (Each Justice represents one or two Circuits, and Thomas long supervised the Eighth, though he no longer does.) Thomas rarely uses a prepared text, and often simply takes questions from students for an hour or more.

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In the context of probation, how much reward, if any, should a contractor get if an offender with a history of violent crime commits no offences of violence while supervised, but steals a chocolate bar from Tesco's?

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Israel's Attorney General has ruled that no charges will be brought against jail staff who supervised the detainee known as "Prisoner X" who committed suicide in 2010.

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And a member of his staff supervised that personally to make sure that that happened, leaving no possible trace of e-mail evidence or other what - other things that he left behind.

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The court heard that the man and his partner were separated, he had supervised contact with his children, and following a risk assessment there was no concern about the way he handled the baby now.

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Bryan Jones pleaded no contest and was sentenced to six months of community control, two years of supervised probation and 200 hours of community service.

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The appeal also said there was "no basis in fact or in law" justifying terms under which Pistorius must be supervised by a probation officer and a correctional official.

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