SquirePattonBoggs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A)(1), does not qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act (commonly referred to as “ACCA”). A)(1) did qualify as a violent felony under ACCA. 2022), the Sixth Circuit read Borden as requiring a purposeful or knowing mens rea for offenses deemed violent felony predicate offenses. . § 2911.01(A)(1),

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“ In a Central Texas county, high schoolers are jailed on felony charges for vaping what could be legal hemp ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Pete Musico, Joseph Morrison and Paul Bellar were all sentenced in the Jackson County Circuit Court to separate prison terms after a jury found them guilty of felony charges in October. Bellar’s charges included support of terrorist acts, gang membership felonies and felony possession of a firearm. in August 2022.

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JURIST

MAY 14, 2024

The events leading to Batten’s sentence transpired in February and March of 2022. A report published by the National Abortion Federation demonstrates that violence against abortion providers increased significantly in 2022. Many of the incidents followed the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v.

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday announced Kevin Seefried and his son Hunter Seefried were found guilty “ of felony and misdemeanor charges for their actions during the Jan. Kevin Seefried’s sentencing is scheduled for September 16, 2022. Hunter Seefried’s sentencing is scheduled for September 23, 2022.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 16, 2023

Division Three disagreed with the Second District, Division Seven, opinion in In re Brown (2022) 76 Cal.App.5th The cases concern resentencing a defendant whose felony-murder conviction is tossed under subsequent legislation narrowing the felony-murder rule. Moriana (2022) 596 U.S. __, __ [142 S.Ct. 15, 2022, No.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A Jackson County, Michigan, Jury Wednesday convicted Joseph Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar for felony charges related to their 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer from her summer home. . In August 2022, a federal jury convicted Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. of conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer and related charges.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald announced charges against the Crumbley parents in 2022, stating: My only goal is to make sure that they know I am going to do everything possible to hold these three people accountable because their kids deserve that and I speak for my entire team. School shootings continue to be a problem in the US.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

These stations have until May 5, 2022 to prepare and upload their responses to their online public files. A felony conviction involving lying to another government agency will normally trigger such a review. The FCC Enforcement Bureau this week announced its latest round of random EEO audits.

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CourtTechBulletin

JUNE 20, 2022

1, 2022, 3:00 p.m. In addition, the New Mexico criminal statutes impose felony penalties for illegal bribes, gratuities, and kickbacks. RFP packets will not be faxed. Proposals must be received by Aug. The Procurement Code, Sections 13-1-1 to 13-1-199 (NMSA 1978), imposes civil and criminal penalties for its violation.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

Gardner pleaded guilty to “ felony charges of civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon,” according to a DOJ announcement. ” Gardner’s sentencing date is scheduled for October 21, 2022.

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JURIST

MAY 2, 2022

It alleges t he law’s felony ban on certain medically necessary care violates the Fourteenth Amendment and asks for an immediate order stopping the law from taking effect. Conviction under the Act is a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $15,000.00.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2022

Plaintiffs sought an injunction against the VCCPA in April 2022, alleging that the law violates their 14th Amendment Rights and strips them of the right to make important decisions about their children’s healthcare. Conviction under the Act is a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $15,000.00.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Arizona he asks the Supreme Court to overrule a 1970 precedent holding that states can use juries as small as six jurors to try defendants for felonies. Issue : Whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. 28 conference). Khorrami v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

For this action to be effective, the Senate would need to also vote on this bill to take the drug off Schedule I, which currently makes its possession and distribution (and the use of radio to promote it), a federal felony. Then the President would have to sign the bill.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

One of the main components of House Bill 5 is its three-strikes provision, which would have people convicted of three violent felonies face life in prison. The bill also toughens penalties for the distribution of fentanyl, classifies carjacking as a Class B felony, and bans street camping.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a regulation that defined “firearm” to include weapon parts kits that could readily be assembled into a firearm and indicated that “a partially complete … frame or receiver” constituted a frame or receiver. relisted after the Apr. 12 conference) Cunningham v.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2022

The man who sold the gun used in an attack at a Texas synagogue on January 15, 2022, Thursday pled guilty to federal charges. Henry “Michael” Dwight Williams pled guilty to felony possession of a firearm. Williams sold a semiautomatic Taurus G2C pistol to Malik Faisal Akram, a British citizen. ” U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2022

In the case of a felony conviction, the FCC analyzes whether the crimes are so serious that the licensee does not have the character to serve the public as well as whether the crime is indicative of the licensee’s likelihood of not being truthful and forthcoming with the FCC.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2021

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced on Tuesday that going forward any Virginian convicted of a felony will automatically have their civil rights restored upon release from incarceration. ” Only two other states—Iowa and Kentucky—have constitutions that permanently disenfranchise citizens with past felony convictions.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The California law makes it a felony to manufacture, distribute, import, keep for sale or lend assault weapons. Benitez found that Califonia’s “extreme policy” violates the Second Amendment because it does not pass the test used in the 2022 Supreme Court case New York Rifle & Pistol Assn.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 9, 2022

But, as we wrote on the Broadcast Law Blog, broadcasters as federal licensees should still steer clear of marijuana advertising unless and until the bill becomes law, even if marijuana has been legalized in the state in which they operate as, until then, it remains a felony under federal law. ( Broadcast Law Blog ).

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Riverside County Superior Court in California has dismissed three separate felony child sexual assault cases in one week due to the court’s inability to begin trials within the required timeframe, including one case so serious the defendant faced a possible life sentence, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It makes performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to life in prison unless the patient qualifies under a very narrow set of exceptions. Texas’s trigger ban took effect in 2021. Texas’s pre- Roe ban dates back to 1925. Cox’s petition sought a TRO to temporarily block enforcement of all of three bans.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

A detective with the Norfolk police department asked Facebook for extensive user information for the teen’s mother, Jessica Burgess, dating back to 15 April 2022, including “profile contact information, wall postings, and friend listing, with Facebook IDs.” The latter two are considered felonies in Nebraska.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In addition, she says over 500 individuals had open felony cases upon arrest. She wrote that his year, 24 percent of arrested burglars have been rearrested for another felony within 60 days, with other forms of thefts seeing similar rates. Felony arrests have increased in every category, up more than 27 percent overall.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 14 in September, making child sex trafficking a serious felony starting Jan. As of January 2022, more than 36 percent of those incarcerated in California were serving sentences lengthened by strike enhancements.

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The Crime Report

MAY 30, 2023

One of the 31 members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front who are facing charges related to an alleged conspiracy riot at a 2022 Idaho Pride event has now separately pleaded guilty in Utah to a number of felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, Alberto Luperon reports for Law & Crime.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 21, 2022

The current application for admission asks would-be lawyers whether they have, as an adult or juvenile, “been cited, ticketed, arrested, taken into custody, charged with, indicted, convicted or tried for, or pleaded guilty to,” a felony or misdemeanor. The Bar’s House of Delegates is scheduled to vote Jan.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“Unlawful carrying of a handgun” could also become a Level 5 felony under certain conditions. If passed by the Senate, the bill would become effective March 30, 2022. .” Prohibited individuals knowingly or intentionally carrying a handgun would be charged with a Class A misdemeanor.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Conviction under the act is a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $15,000.00. This case had already made its way up to the Eleventh Circuit when the court ruled that the ban could go into effect. In other words, it prevents people within Alabama from providing gender-affirming care to minors.

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Mondaq

MAY 10, 2022

On May 2, 2022, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB 470, which amends provisions of Georgia's banking laws relating to the denial or revocation of a mortgage license or registration due to certain felony convictions.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

On the same day, one man was sentenced to ten years in prison and a second pled guilty to felony charges. He is scheduled for sentencing on December 13, 2022. The DOJ charged an attorney for the Oath Keepers militia group with conspiracy and obstruction. Khater faces up to 20 years in prison and a potential fine of $250,000.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2022

Two doctors joined two parents on behalf of their minor children to file a complaint Tuesday in federal court against the governor and the district attorneys of Alabama, Shelby County, and Jefferson County, to block Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (“VCCPA”) from going into effect on May 8, 2022.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

1437 , 2018 legislation that allows resentencing of some defendants convicted of felony murder or murder under a natural-and-probable-consequences theory. The court granted the Attorney General’s petition for review in Curiel in January 2022. The opinion can be viewed Monday starting at 10:00 a.m.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. million migrants entering the US in 2023, topping the previous high from 2022. ” Undocumented immigration into the US has spiked over the last few years with 2.5

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The Crime Report

MARCH 28, 2022

But a Buffalo News investigation found that that few people released without a judge setting bail are being rearrested for violent felonies. Of that 5,092 cases, only 120 people were rearrested on a violent felony charge while their original case against them remained open. . percent for a nonviolent felony charge, and 2.8

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