The Crime Report

MARCH 22, 2023

A spokesperson for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that the charges were dismissed due to “insufficient evidence,” and referenced additional information that “came to light.” ” Roiland the is co-creator of the massively successful adult animated comedy “Rick and Morty.”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. Federal Government 5%. To begin, the type of law being enforced is different.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2022

Andrea Lubelfeld, who’s in charge of public defenders, said it’s not a matter of leniency but of finding better alternatives than jail for young teens, while State’s Attorney Kim Foxx adds that jail can make a juvenile more dangerous. Of all the juvenile cases presented to prosecutors last year, 10 percent were offered a diversion.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

Kathy Hochul is seeking to amend the state’s bail law by rolling back bans instituted in 2019 on cash bail for most misdemeanor and nonviolent felony offenses and, instead, letting judges set bail for more repeat offenders, as well as for people who are accused of a larger list of gun crimes, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Gaige Grosskreutz who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha riots in 2020 is now suing him as well as Wisconsin police and officials. In 2012, Grosskreutz was charged with a felony burglary charge in New Berlin when he was caught trying to sell three stolen PlayStation consoles. it is back.

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The Crime Report

MAY 5, 2021

The Yolo County (California) District Attorney’s Office says they have been tracking people who were let out on zero-dollar bail and observed that almost half have been arrested again, reports FOX40. Since April 13, 2020, individuals released on $0 bail have committed over 908 new crimes in the county and 41.6

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On Wednesday, Digmon was also charged with two felony counts of violating state ethics law for allegedly using her school board position to solicit a thing of value by selling more than $2,500 in advertisements to the board. ” Abuse of grand jury information is a felony under Alabama law. Theodore J.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 12, 2023

5th 769; In re Williams (2020) 57 Cal.App.5th The prosecution acted under a Los Angeles County District Attorney directive to not contest certain resentencing petitions in felony-murder cases. The Supreme Court has denied review in several cases reaching a contrary conclusion. See among others People v. 5th 193; People v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 20, 2021

The team, based in Homan Square on the West Side, will work under Jason Brown, commander of the police department’s gang investigations and narcotics division, and Elena Gottreich, a former assistant Cook County state’s attorney who, as a prosecutor, focused on gun crimes. city, including New York City.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 19, 2021

cabinet member, a labor leader, and a civil rights activist — calling for Governor Gavin Newsom to nominate Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu as California Attorney General if the current AG, Xavier Becerra, is confirmed as President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

That 2018 legislation, which scales back the felony-murder rule and the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine, has been attacked by various district attorney’s around the state as an invalid amendment of several voter initiatives and as a violation of the separation of powers. Marquez (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th

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At the Lectern

JUNE 17, 2021

” The Attorney General unsuccessfully argued the case is final when the defendant doesn’t appeal the suspended sentence, not when, as with Esquivel, the sentence is ordered into effect three years later upon a finding of a parole violation. McKenzie (2020) 9 Cal.5th The court ruled similarly last year in People v.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

These reports are part of the Commission’s statutory mandate and provide vital information and analysis to attorneys, scholars and the public. Unfortunately, the Commission’s July 2020 report on Federal Probation and Supervised Release Violations contains a major mistake that greatly overstates the dangerousness of federal probationers.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The court granted review in January 2020. In re Jenkins : When the court granted review in April 2021 , it limited the issues to these: “Where a habeas petitioner claims not to have received a fair trial because the District Attorney failed to disclose material evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland (1963) 373 U.S. Link added.)

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

He served 61 years in prison before being released on parole in February 2020. Weger’s attorneys, Celeste Stack and I, continue to seek to prove Chester’s innocence and are seeking to review and analyze the physical evidence and are working to be able to conduct forensic testing on some of that evidence.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 22, 2021

Jaimes , but it granted the Attorney General’s request to depublish the Fifth District’s divided, partially published opinion that held the superior court erroneously responded to a jury question about the meaning of a charged sentence enhancement for a person “convicted of a felony committed. Jaimes , above.).

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At the Lectern

JUNE 26, 2023

Everyone is on the same page on the retroactivity issue — the defendant, the Attorney General, and the court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan. Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th It’s not an easily resolved issue, because the Legislature didn’t specify an answer. In People v.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Review was granted three years ago and has been fully briefed since June 2020. show that the case was frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation in order to recover attorney fees? d)) was a serious felony (id., §§ 667, subd. (a)(1), Steger (1976) 16 Cal.3d 3d 539, 544-546; People v. Mattison (1971) 4 Cal.3d a)(1), 1192.7,

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For decades, attorneys, activists, academics, and even judges have openly critiqued the War on Drugs and its associated harsh enforcement policies such as mandatory minimum sentencing. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions.

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APRIL 29, 2021

where the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal, in a published opinion , affirmed almost $170,000 in attorneys fees after a jury awarded less than $22,000 for a violation of the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (commonly known as the “lemon law”) in the sale of a used car. 2020) 50 Cal.App.5th

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At the Lectern

MARCH 11, 2022

Attorney fees. includes attorney fees. Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th King (2020) 52 Cal.App.5th 5th 455, 462-464) [see here ] and the superior court failed to set forth the reasons for its decision to deny bail in the court’s minutes ( In re Humphrey (2021) 11 Cal.5th 5th 135, 155-156).”

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? The felony charges filed against the Crumbleys could result in a maximum prison sentence of 15 years on each count of involuntary manslaughter. Between mid March and mid July 2020, 6.4 That’s much more than a slap on the wrist. That may be what it takes.”.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

While the legislation passed earlier this year didn’t address police directly, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gills says it will add a “new hurdle” for any prosecutor attempting to charge an officer, reports PBS. The yearly toll reached a new high of 1,021 fatal shootings in 2020.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

gun homicides per 100,000 population in 2020. District attorneys have campaigned on pledges to right past wrongs, and once elected they’ve brought officers to account for controversial uses of force, including some that occurred years earlier. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there were 5.9

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ALPS

AUGUST 4, 2022

” And he brought in three black women attorneys to come talk to me. In the South Dakota Bar, we have about 2,700 lawyers, but we have anecdotally, maybe 10 to 15 Native American attorneys. So that is our most underrepresented group of attorneys. I do a lot of education just on attorney wellness. So we continued.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 19, 2021

Menetrez, a former Horvitz & Levy attorney, wrote the article before becoming a judge. Supreme Court case changed the rule in 2010, the defendant’s attorney “had no affirmative duty. 4th 522; In re Scoggins (2020) 9 Cal.5th The appellate court held that, before a U.S. Clark (2016) 63 Cal.4th

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At the Lectern

APRIL 18, 2024

Before that, you’d have to go back to June 2020. When the court granted review in January 2022, it limited the issue to: “Does a plaintiff in a representative action filed under the Private Attorneys General Act (Lab. The court still might not match last term’s 55 opinions, which was an historic low. Turrieta v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. By January 1 of 2020 that population had been reduced by 2,000 people all at once. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. She also said she didn’t know the facility security staff had been conducting investigations and determining whether patients had committed felonies that were then referred to the state’s attorney.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

” The appellate court criticized a 2020 opinion by the Second District, Division Seven. It concluded a kill zone instruction is OK if “the evidence supports a reasonable inference that the defendant had the requisite intent [i.e., The court also agreed to hear Law Finance Group, LLC v. Newly enacted Senate Bill 775 (Stats.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Among the city’s five district attorneys, this rate ranged from a high of 23 percent in Manhattan to just 1 percent in the Bronx, where just a single hate crime arrest out of a total of 92 resulted in a hate crime conviction since District Attorney Darcel Clark took control of the office in 2016.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sadly, these cases are not anomalies; over 10 percent of the 1,126 police killings in 2020 began with a traffic stop. Castile’s death spurred Ramsey County, MN Attorney John Choi to announce that he was ending the prosecution of cases resulting from non-public safety traffic stops. Miriam Krinsky.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I don’t think the actual terms of the neighborhood order of protection were clear to my client,” said Maureen Hanlon, an attorney for the public-interest law group ArchCity Defenders. “It He agreed to stay out of downtown but was subsequently arrested for a violation and served three months in jail, a case highlighted by the St.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

This guide, authored by County Attorney Reese Frederickson from Minnesota, IIP Deputy Director Alissa Marque Heydari, a nd IIP Legal Fellow Chloe Marmet , spotlights individuals who have implemented restorative justice programs to meet the needs of the victims, society, and the accused in their communities.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

Possession and distribution is a felony under federal law, as is the use of radio, TV or the Internet to facilitate that distribution. Stations need to do a thorough check of their state’s laws and the regulations of their state agencies to see what other rules might apply to these sales. After all that, we are back to where we began.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Jenna Ellis, one of former President Donald Trump’s ex-attorneys charged in the Georgia election interference case , pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. Ellis pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal , which reduced her charges from two felony counts to one.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked the Michigan Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council, a state agency, to appoint a special prosecutor to consider charges against nine people in connection with an effort to gain access to voting machines after the 2020 election, reports the Associated Press.

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