SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, PETA’s First Amendment challenge to a North Carolina law that imposes monetary damages on undercover workplace recording. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law. In Stein v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. Overall, Petty simultaneously served as a prosecutor and law clerk at least 300 times. Our public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, represents her. Eventually he filed a lawsuit under the state’s Right to Know Law.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

We previously discussed how prosecutors in North Carolina, Georgia, Oregon, and other states have dismissed or downgraded many rioting cases, including cases of individuals who destroyed statues in broad daylight. The seven defendants were charged with felony counts of damaging property worth over $1,000.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The injuries in Clendening were not the sort of combat-related or even job-related injuries one would expect: petitioner Carol Clendening seeks to recover for her late husband’s exposure to toxic drinking water while serving as a judge advocate general officer at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. territories. 28 and Oct. 7 conferences).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Roman is facing felony charges of reckless discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon as well as child endangerment and violating probation. Likewise, the University of North Carolina recently offered an academic chair in Journalism to New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

After Ingham County, Michigan Prosecutor Carol Siemon announced that she would not prosecute non-public safety stops nor pursue Michigan’s racially disparate “felony firearm” charges that simply pile on unnecessary statutory enhancements, she was viciously attacked by law enforcement leaders, some of whom even called for her resignation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Since 1986, bankruptcy cases in Alabama or North Carolina have been administered by trustees appointed by the judicial branch, while all other cases have been administered by the U.S. But the Alabama and North Carolina trustees had charged much less than fees charged in other states, with the deficit coming out of the judiciary budget.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A paper published by the Duke University School of Law , which cited both commentaries, said the process was a distortion of justice because most—if not all—of the deals were concluded in secret, hidden behind what many have called the “black box” of prosecutorial discretion. The North Carolina and Massachusetts Experiments.

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The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. The full Duke Law Journal paper can be accessed here. It leads to the denial of bail or harsher plea proffers.”.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday blocked a lower court order that would restore voting rights to more than 55,000 North Carolinians on parole or probation for a felony. ” Moore said, “although this fight is far from over, [he is] confident that the Constitution will prevail in the end.”

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This story was republished from NC Newsline , a nonpartisan nonprofit news organization in North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a ruling Tuesday that a man should not lose his parental rights because of strict parole conditions imposed by another state. Read the original story here.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

The seditious conspiracy indictment alleges that Rhodes and his co-defendants conspired to forcefully oppose the execution of laws governing the transfer of presidential power from former President Trump to President Biden on January 20, 2021.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

In a study linking business ownership information with information from a background check and consumer data company, RAND also analyzed data from the states of Minnesota and North Carolina for a deeper analysis of the Paycheck Payment Protection Program created last March to aid small businesses affected by the pandemic.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“They are also primarily responsible for determining who stays in jail and who can be released back to their communities while awaiting trial, and they wield unmatched influence in determining the kind of criminal laws and penalties enacted by state legislatures.”. Satana DeBerry.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my 1999, Duke Law Journal article on impeachment, I wrote that “[t]he Senate majority, however, was correct in its view that impeachments historically extended to former officials, such as Warren Hastings.” This has remained an open question and much contested in the United States as I noted in my later North Carolina article.

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