The Crime Report

JUNE 7, 2021

American prosecutors act as “active lobbyists who routinely support making the criminal law harsher,” said the report, noting that more than 22,000 criminal law and criminal justice bills were introduced in state legislatures during the four-year period under review. For some states, this wasn’t the case.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Arizona (Nov. 1): Whether the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling that a state rule of criminal procedure barred an Arizona death-row inmate from obtaining relief is an adequate and independent state-law ground for the judgment against him. Hendrix (Nov.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2022

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), New York, California, and Arizona have lower than average murder rates when compared to other US states. This year, the report does not include data from New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Phoenix.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Stefanie Lindquist Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University, answers critical questions including: does an indictment – or even a felony conviction – prevent a presidential candidate from running or serving in office?

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JURIST

APRIL 21, 2022

Arizona constitutional status, but did not create a Fifth Amendment right. However Vega’s attorney Roman Martinez acknowledged that Miranda rights are constitutionally protected, but not a Fifth Amendment right. Martinez reasoned that Dickerson v. United States gave Miranda v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2023

Although these justifications are often framed as “common sense,” they ignore the fact that both civil and criminal laws already protect such places. Fradella is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, where he also holds an affiliate appointment as a professor of law.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Law enforcement often identify victims incorrectly as witnesses of an event, in order to protect themselves from liability, inadvertently barring families from needed aid , according to a new report published by the Nevada Law Journal. . Who is a Victim? . The full report can be accessed here. .

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JonathanTurley

MAY 14, 2021

We often discuss criminals who are standouts for their stupidity or audacity or savagery. When it comes to Stormee Wagner, 40, and James E. Wagner, 37, there are few words that capture the callous character of their crime.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2024

While I agree with the Fifth Circuit that it is largely locked into the existing precedent in cases like Arizona v. 387, 399 (2012), finding “field preemption” of state immigration laws. It is a bitter recognition for the state that the open border conditions are the product of federal laws and policies.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The seeds of this disaster were planted by the Supreme Court over a decade ago, in Arizona v. In that case, a 5-3 majority ruled against a state seeking to enforce immigration laws in light of what it described as a vacuum of federal action. States have also tried to go to court to enforce these laws in cases like Arizona v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Thomas spent the first 11 pages of his 22-page opinion recounting the grisly facts of the murders the defendants were convicted of, extolling the states’ authority to enforce criminal laws, and emphasizing the importance of the finality of convictions. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

At that time, the FCC indicated that broadcasters need not run an ad that would violate a Federal criminal law (in that case, obscenity laws). Ads for a candidate in Pennsylvania used the “Let’s Go Brandon” language generally acknowledged to be an allusion to a profanity directed at President Biden (see article here ).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 20, 2021

Chris Collins as well as Joe Arpaio, the highly controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. That pattern continued on his last day with pardons for former Arizona Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona who convicted of extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering, and racketeering. Duncan Hunter and former GOP Rep.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The other petitioner, Dr. Shakeel Kahn is alleged to have sold controlled substances in exchange for cash and even firearms in Arizona and Wyoming, sometimes without performing any exam and documenting the encounters with falsified notes.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Atlantic published an article by Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and University of Arizona law professor Andrew Keane Woods calling for Chinese style censorship of the internet. It is a chilling example of the censorship that is now being embraced by many in the United States.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This week, Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes aptly described the claimed right to disqualify as a “radical” measure that would “encompass every elected office in our government — state, local, federal, and so forth.” This is one of the most dangerous legal theories to arise in decades.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Now students and groups at Arizona State University are planning a rally and demanding that Rittenhouse be expelled. It does that matter that there was evidence supporting Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense that was largely missing from prior coverage of the case.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Criminal law We are now in the home stretch. Jones , our last case, is a petition filed by Arizona arguing that the 9th Circuit erred in granting habeas relief to Danny Lee Jones on the ground that he received constitutionally ineffective assistance at his trial for beating two people to death. Thornell v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Oklahoma that Congress had not clearly disestablished a Creek Nation reservation covering much of eastern Oklahoma, and thus the area remained Native American territory for the purposes of a federal criminal law, eliminating the state’s ability to prosecute crimes there. relisted after the Jan. 7 conference). Twyford , 21-511.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

The same issue came up recently in the United States in the case of the woman who had her face ripped off by a neighbor’s pet chimpanzee and a case in Arizona involving a javelina. It was not viewed as possessing the animal since wild animals could move freely on to the property.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2022

Hearing an account of Trump lawyer John Eastman tell the Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers to “just do it” in scrapping the state’s slate of electors was cringeworthy. However, many seem to be making the same demand of Attorney General Garland about bringing criminal charges.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

Democratic National Committee , an Arizona case in which the U.S. The Biden administration has made opposition to Georgia’s law into a rallying cry for its stalled legislative efforts to federalize state election laws. The lawsuit was less surprising than its timing: It was filed just days before the release of Brnovich v.

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