Felony Laws Misdemeanor New Jersey 
The Crime Report
APRIL 21, 2022
Advocates are pushing states to create updated felony standards, arguing that outdated laws, which vary wildly from state to state, are unfairly making felons out of people who committed minor crimes such as stealing a pair of shoes, reports Axios.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 10, 2022
A “second chance law” in Indiana expunges criminal records after five to eight years. Meanwhile, New York City is poised to join three other cities in outlawing criminal background checks for residents seeking public housing. The city would join New Jersey, Seattle and San Francisco.
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SCOTUSBlog
MAY 20, 2024
This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether Arizona’s sentencing law for juvenile offenders convicted of first-degree murder violates Miller because, although the law allows for the possibility of release, the state abolished parole for homicide in 1994.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 25, 2022
This year’s rich harvest brings the total number of criminal record reforms enacted in the past three years to over 400 separate laws,” the report said, celebrating what it said was a bipartisan commitment to end “unwarranted discrimination” against the formerly incarcerated. not disenfranchising at all).
JonathanTurley
MAY 24, 2024
Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant. It is down to three – a tax crime and violations of state or federal election law. Bragg is not counting on the evidence or the law.
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. The fact of the matter is that bail reform has been a disaster for New York City,” said Quinn. percent of total arrests and 20.2 percent and 25.1
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MARCH 6, 2018
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.
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