JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In March 2023, McDonald testified before the state senate, calling gun violence a “public health crisis.” ” Judge Kwamé Rowe sentenced the shooter, Ethan Crumbley, in December 2023 to life without the possibility of parole. McDonald has been vocal about the issue of gun violence since the Oxford shooting.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The FCC has requested comments on NAB’s petition asking the Commission to grant a two-year extension of the May 26, 2023 deadline by which broadcasters must comply with Section 79.2(b)(2)(ii) The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued a Revocation Order revoking the license of an FM station in Pennsylvania.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

” Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, Texas has reported substantial enforcement results: over 496,000 undocumented immigrant apprehensions and more than 38,500 criminal arrests, including over 34,900 felony charges. .”

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2024

On November 21, 2023, the court found Taylor James Johnatakis guilty of seven charges , including three felonies, due to his participation in the riot. The US District Court District of Columbia sentenced an orchestrator of the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot to 87 months of imprisonment and ordered him to pay $2000 in restitution.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The law takes effect in July 2023 and won’t apply if the person was convicted of a serious or violent felony, such as murder, kidnap or rape. It also won’t apply to felonies that require someone to register as a sex offender.

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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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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Foehner has been charged with seven felony counts under state law and one misdemeanor under New York City administrative law. His top charge is for felony possession of a weapon in the first degree , under a specific portion of New York State law addressing the possession of ten or more firearms.

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The Crime Report

JULY 16, 2021

Illinois legal classifications range from Class 4 felonies to Class X felonies and can carry sentences from probation for up to 30 months to a prison sentence of up to 30 years. The majority of those convicted and sentenced to prison for felony firearm possession have not been convicted of a prior violent crime.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Officers simply will not file felony charges when they believe offenders will not be held accountable or have bond assigned to them in court,” Weitzel said in September, “One can debate the merits of that, but it will happen unless there is some modification in the SAFE-T Act.” .

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 20, 2023

6 riot and said in a news release that it didn’t know about his alleged involvement in the attack until July 2023, when it learned he was under FBI investigation. The department has since suspended without pay and is “taking steps to terminate his employment” after his indictment on felony charges.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The independent database Fatal Encounters indicates that police have already killed 79 people across the US through January 2023. succumbed to his injuries on January 31, 2023. The announcement comes amidst refocused national attention on police violence following the recent police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennesee.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

Watts had initially been charged with felony abuse of a corpse in October after Warren County police found the remains of her pregnancy in her toilet and trash. A 2023 report by Care Post-Roe revealed that healthcare providers in states with abortion bans are unable to meet medical standards, putting their patients at risk.

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JURIST

APRIL 10, 2024

Judge Kwamé Rowe sentenced the shooter, Ethan Crumbley, in December 2023 to life without the possibility of parole. The post Michigan judge sentences parents of Oxford High School shooter to 10 to 15 years in prison appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2024

In January 2023, six members of Mississippi law enforcement entered the home of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker without a warrant or exigent circumstances. Despite having no probable cause to believe that either man was involved in criminal acts, the Mississippi officers handcuffed both men in their home.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2023

has been indicted by a grand jury for 20 alleged crimes including felony fraud and first-degree theft for allegedly stealing more than $263,000 from the city’s Medicaid program through fraudulent claims, Keith L. A mental health therapist in Washington D.C. Alexander reports for the Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The 11th state in the country to pass the Clean Slate Act during the 2023 legislative session, Minnesota’s law will automatically expunge records for non-violent, non-felony crimes starting on Jan. The clinic will help the 5 percent of people eligible for expungement go through the process.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Center for Reproductive Rights, a reproductive rights organization, filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s ban, which currently makes it a felony to perform or aid an abortion, with an exception for situations where women face death or a serious health risk. Wade decision that established the constitutional right to abortion.

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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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The hearing summary form, covering Haley’s January 20, 2023, administrative hearing, states: [Y]ou admitted you shared the photos in a text message with five (5) people; one civilian employee, two [Memphis Police Department] officers, and one female acquaintance.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Assault weapons In early 2023, Illinois adopted the Protect Illinois Communities Act, which prohibits the possession of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Avenetti argues that under the 2nd Circuit’s rule, what would normally be handled by bar discipline is converted into a 20-year felony. relisted after the Jan.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

17, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the first-ever conviction of two corporate executives in a criminal prosecution for failure to report a consumer product defect under the CPSA. Then, earlier this year, in April 2023, Gree USA, Inc., See 15 U.S.C. § 2070. Now, fifteen years later, on Nov.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes. This lawsuit stems from two lawsuits filed by E.

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Day on Torts

MAY 12, 2023

5, 2023), plaintiff filed a malicious prosecution claim based on an underlying criminal case. Plaintiff alleged that after he criticized defendant union, defendant accused him of misusing union funds and caused him to be charged with two state felonies. National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 39 , — S.W.3d 3d —, No.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 31, 2023

The court issued a constitutionally required recommendation allowing Governor Gavin Newsom to pardon Beverly Taylor for 1998 and 1999 drug-related felony convictions. (See Catarino (2023) 14 Cal.5th Clemency approved. See here for more about the court and clemency.) Reynoza (see here ) and another one holding for People v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 3, 2024

District Judge John Bates in March 2023 imposed a two year sentence based on a common enhancing factor cited by the government in many of these cases for the “substantial interference with the administration of justice.” However, while there was little question of the validity of the basis for charges against him, U.S.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 18, 2024

Nine arguments makes early-May the largest calendar of the 2023-2024 term thus far and goes a long way towards fulfilling Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero’s pledge to increase the court’s opinion output during the term’s second half. (2) The court issued an order to show cause on the original writ petition in November 2023.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 13, 2024

Superior Court (Guevara) , where a divided Second District, Division Six, Court of Appeal published opinion granted a prosecution writ petition and overturned a superior court order reducing to eight years a three strikes sentence of 25-years-to-life, the third strike having been a non-serious, non-violent felony. Salazar (2023) 15 Cal.5th

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2023

Twenty-six other states besides Texas still allow for the execution of individuals involved in felony murder offenses, even though they did not fire the fatal shot or had no prior knowledge that a fatal shot would be fired or, worse yet, were not even present when the fatal shot was fired. The same legislative scenario proved true in 2023.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Oral arguments have not yet been scheduled, but a decision is expected before the term ends in June 2023. A jury found Dubin guilty of one charge of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. The post Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 31, 2023

The first of several forthcoming criminal indictments against Donald Trump was announced early on the evening of March 30, 2023, shortly after a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict the former president – crossing for the very first time the Rubicon that no person is above the rule of law in the United States. It is un-American.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

1994 to 2023 Prior to 1994, there were few states that required offenders convicted of sex offenses to register with local authorities—a registration that allows local law enforcement to monitor the location of sex offenders in their jurisdiction. Lane did not keep the appointment.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Smith had asked the justices to act quickly to resolve the dispute over Trump’s immunity during the 2023-24 term, but the justices turned him down, in a brief unsigned order issued on Friday afternoon. on four felony counts relating to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

The defendant rejected these counterproposals on August 7, 2023. ” It then accuses Biden and his counsel as outright lying to the court: “In his motion, in multiple places, the defendant falsely states that DOJ ‘inexplicably demanded Mr. Biden plead guilty to felonies with jail time.’

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

These amendments would also allow federal prosecution of those individuals legally carrying a firearm in a school zone but engaged in other felonious activity with which the GFSZA was concerned, such as drug dealing, gang activity, or criminal violence. “In Tyler Smotherman will graduate from Texas Law Tech in May 2023.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The civil lawsuit accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship by testifying as a key witness before a Manhattan grand jury, revealing “confidences” and “spreading falsehoods” which resulted in Trump being charged on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

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At the Lectern

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Mumin (2023) 15 Cal.5th 5th 1085 (see here ) — a 7-0-3 opinion — held that, for determining constitutional equal protection rights, people under conservatorships for the gravely disabled are similarly situated with those committed to state hospitals after being found not guilty of a felony by reason of insanity.

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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.

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