JURIST

MAY 2, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday filed a complaint challenging an Alabama law that criminalizes some medical treatments for transgender youth. 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.

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JURIST

JUNE 14, 2023

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc ón announced formal charges against Los Angeles Councilmember Curren Price Jr. According to the felony criminal complaint , the state charges Price with two counts of conflict of interest. on Tuesday. The case is in the Superior Court for the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.

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JURIST

APRIL 11, 2021

California Assembly Member Miguel Santiago and the Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasc ó n unveiled Assembly Bill 1127 on Friday, which would exclude juvenile crimes from applying under the California Three Strikes law once the person reaches adulthood. If it counts as a third strike, a life sentence may be given.

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The Crime Report

MAY 8, 2023

Franklin County in Washington state is facing a lawyer shortage as newly booked inmates are not being assigned defense attorneys for the last two months, Cameron Probert reports for Tri-City Herald. Judges also have the power to assign private law firm attorneys, with the counties having to foot the bill.

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JULY 28, 2022

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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

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied an injunction Thursday against a Mississippi law that created a state-run court district in the state’s capital of Jackson. The bill also gives the court jurisdiction over misdemeanors, violations of city ordinances and felony preliminary matters.

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The Crime Report

MAY 11, 2021

A criminal justice bill passed in Kansas comes with a slew of new laws and provisions including making sexual extortion a crime, enforcing stronger penalties for attempting to elude a police officer, and allowing spouses to be charged with sexual battery, Hays Post reports. The package will go to Gov.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will be hosting a clinic in north Minneapolis this week to help eligible people get their criminal records wiped clean, Nafi Soumare reports for the Minnesota Reformer. The clinic will help the 5 percent of people eligible for expungement go through the process.

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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. The law enforcement agents then exited the home, providing no medical aid or assistance to either victim. This abuse of power will not be tolerated.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2024

Attorney Carla Freedman for the Northern District of New York stated, “ The federal felony conviction [Dai] sustains today underscores that those who break the law by making violent threats will be found and prosecuted, even if they attempt to hide by posting anonymously.” In a press release , U.S.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Felony drug distribution carried a maximum sentence of 30 years and a fine up to $500,000 when I practiced as a prosecutor in DC. I saw this happen regularly throughout my 12 years as a prosecutor: a law passed under one stated objective is in practice applied differently, and harmfully—especially for Black and brown people.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Mississippi can continue to bar more than 10 percent of its citizens from voting, maintaining a Jim Crow-era provision that bars Mississippians convicted of felonies from taking part in elections, reports the Daily Journal.

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2023

The Texas “ law of parties ” allow prosecutors to seek and secure the execution of individuals involved in what is more generally known as “felony murder” crimes—offenses that involve more than one person, all of whom can be prosecuted as equal participants even though one or more of the participants may have had no direct involvement in the murder.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office Friday announced that former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Lyons will stand on trial for the on-duty fatal shooting of unarmed 24-year-old Ryan Twyman in 2019. No deputies were injured. The second deputy involved was suspended for a month in January.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2023

The Attorney General of Guam Douglas Moylan filed the motion to reinstate the ban. Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood of the District Court of Guam ruled that the original permanent injunction from 1990, which blocked Public Law No. Public Law No. 20-134 , should remain in effect.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

The Senate’s amendment added that in a civil action based on violating the bill, “[The] plaintiff may recover from the person: (A) Compensatory damages; (B) Punitive damages; and (C) Reasonable attorney’s fees, court costs, and expenses.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2024

Counsel for Texas, which includes Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , responded to the Biden request with, “The loss of any human life in the Rio Grande is tragic—and preventable. The Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution stipulates that states cannot interfere with federal law and that federal law supersedes conflicting state laws.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The DOJ charged an attorney for the Oath Keepers militia group with conspiracy and obstruction. On the same day, one man was sentenced to ten years in prison and a second pled guilty to felony charges. According to the Texas Bar , Sorelle is ineligible to practice law in Texas.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

This case originated in the trial court when the defendant Vince Lewis filed a petition, under a newly enacted law that took effect in January 2019, requesting counsel to challenge his murder conviction under that same law. The new law in question was California Senate Bill No.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2024

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced on Wednesday that a state grand jury returned an indictment against 18 individuals associated with former US President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn Arizona’s election results in the 2020 presidential election. All nine counts are felony offenses in the state of Arizona.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2022

Henry “Michael” Dwight Williams pled guilty to felony possession of a firearm. Attorney Chad Meacham said Williams, who had a prior history of felonies “had no business carrying – much less buying and selling – firearms.” ” U.S.

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MAY 24, 2024

Last year, Tennessee and Kentucky were among a group of more than 20 states that enacted laws that prohibit giving transgender youths under the age of 18 medical treatment to align their appearance with their gender identity. Federal district courts in both states granted the challengers’ requests to block the laws from going into effect.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2023

” The court did this after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted a Petition for Writ of Mandamus with the court in response to the TRO. ” Texas law provides that performing an abortion is a felony punishable by up to life in prison unless the patient qualifies under a very narrow set of exceptions.

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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. Cox’s circumstances thus fall within the medical exception to Texas’s abortion bans and laws. Texas’s trigger ban took effect in 2021. According to the order: Ms.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With little guidance from the courts and little influence from the states, schools often determine their own guidelines for discipline, giving them immense power and offering students scant due process argue Emory University law professor Tonja Jacobi and Riley Clafton, a Judicial Law Clerk at ther U.S. Courts of Appeals.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 9, 2023

The Department of Justice and the Attorney General of Delaware have announced indictments totaling 35 counts against four people in connection with a series of crimes including carjackings, a kidnapping, a rape, and theft that occurred as part of a crime spree in April. ”

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Idaho Wednesday to prevent the enforcement of its law criminalizing doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors. The lawsuit names Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, the prosecuting attorney for a county in Idaho and members of the Idaho Code Commission as defendants.

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JURIST

APRIL 18, 2023

” Lester is facing two felony charges: assault in the first degree and armed criminal action, both stemming from the shooting of 16-year-old Yarl. The Clay County Sheriff’s Department tweeted that “Andrew Lester, charged in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, has surrendered at our Detention Center. He is in custody.”

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

The survivors and families of the victims joined in a lawsuit against the US government, alleging negligence under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act due to the government’s failure to prevent Kelley from purchasing a firearm despite his prior felony convictions.

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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. Wade decision that recognized an individual’s right to an abortion, states across the country have been initiating new laws to regulate access to reproductive health care.

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2022

Jagger Freeman has been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison because of New York’s felony murder law, a legal concept that broadens the crime of murder to include those who set into motion a series of events that lead to a person’s death, regardless of their intent, The Gothamist reports.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Under current laws, noncitizens convicted of serious crimes are deported. In a forthcoming paper published in the Georgetown Law Journal, David K. In a forthcoming paper published in the Georgetown Law Journal, David K. disrupts families and turns immigration services into a vehicle for crime control.

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law published a report Wednesday identifying thousands of people being held in Mississippi’s county jails while awaiting trial because they cannot afford bail or public defenders unavailable when required.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

District Attorney Michael Allen said Aldrich will have his first appearance in court via video from jail, where he will be held without bond after he is released from the hospital. ” Aldrich was previously arrested and charged in 2021 with two counts of felony menacing and three counts of first-degree kidnapping.

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2022

Both counts are felony charges, and Hoornstra could face up to seven years in prison and a $500,000 fine. Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. .” The indictment charged Hoornstra with one count of interstate threat and one count of threatening interstate telephone call. Polite, Jr.

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