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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The campaign, which is part of a multiyear, multi-million-dollar effort by the group to boost voter turnout among crime victims, will primarily concentrate on battleground states, including Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, where competitive elections take place and a fresh influx of voters can have a significant impact.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Digit, a bipedal robot from Agility Robotics, being tested at the University of Michigan. Photo by Joseph Xu/University of Michigan Engineering. First responders are called upon to face a growing list of dangers, ranging from a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and wildfires in North America to mudslides in Brazil and floods in Australia.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

times more often than men, that threats of death and gun violence are more than twice as common as any other form of threat, and that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona possess the highest share of incidents against poll workers and election officials. Meanwhile, U.S.

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APRIL 25, 2022

of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. . “The increasing firearm-related mortality reflects a longer-term trend and shows that we continue to fail to protect our youth from a preventable cause of death,” wrote researcjers Jason E. Goldstick, Ph.D., Cunningham, M.D., and Patrick M. Carter, M.D.,

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

The county license holds came after Michigan-based company Variscite NY One argued that the requirements that retail applicants have both a “significant presence” in New York and a criminal record for a marijuana-related conviction under state law, results in “noncompensable damages” to the Michigan company.

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JULY 26, 2021

To that end, there are times where the FBI has stepped in and used their power to keep our country safe, including last year, when it was revealed that the FBI played a vital role in foiling a plan where right-wing extremists were to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Witmer , Buzzfeed News extensively reported. .

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

WILX out of Michigan spoke to BBB representative Troy Baker about avoiding “charity scam” callers and other scams while considering donations during GivingTuesday and throughout the rest of the year.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Two recent examples noted by TRT World are the plan to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Witmer and the Jan. In terms of the plan to kidnap the Michigan governor, 12 informants were found to have been involved in the conspiracy to kidnap Witmer , according to Buzzfeed News. 6 Capitol riot. .

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Axios linked accounts of juvenile fentanyl overdose deaths in Alabama , California , Maine , Michigan and Texas to reports of an upsurge in overdose deaths among young people nationwide. Recent incidents have included fentanyl disguised or mistaken as other drugs. This week, O.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“Of the many costs that the War on Drugs inflicts on the Black community, the practice of deliberately charging innocent defendants with fabricated crimes may be the most shameful,” University of Michigan Law Prof. Samuel Gross, lead author of the study and Senior Editor of the Registry, said in a statement accompanying the release.

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JULY 6, 2022

Welfare benefits may reduce the likelihood that disadvantaged youth will become involved with the justice system, according to a study by two economists from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

To make matters worse, now that case rates are spiking again with the onset of the Omicron variant, data on the vaccinations and booster doses are scarce and incomplete across our country’s prison systems.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Around 43 percent of young adults reported using marijuana last year, up from 34 percent in 2016 and 29 percent in 2011, according to the Monitoring the Future study by the University of Michigan, which annually surveys substance abuse behaviors since 1975 and had some 5,000 participants in the latest survey. . .

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MARCH 14, 2022

associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, about her research on the impact of the criminal justice system on marginalized groups. The Conversation U.S. Her work emphasizes the needs of defendants in the criminal justice system, who she refers to as justice-involved people.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

In addition, I subscribe to various podcasts and newsletters focused on legal technology. The research I do for the Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and for my classes at Michigan State University College of Law and University of Michigan Law School keep me up-to-speed as well.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An article published in 2021 by University of Michigan Law School researchers argues that the law which excludes inmates from receiving Medicaid funds is detrimental to inmate health. The original researchers cited overcrowded prisons driven by mass incarceration as the main contributing problem.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Half of all incarcerated people serving LWOP are located in one of five states included in the review: California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The report studied 39,253 people serving life-without-parole sentences in 20 states, representative of three-quarters of the LWOP population across the country.

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JULY 9, 2021

The states with the largest number of federal hate crime investigations recorded over the period were: Michigan, Ohio, Mississippi, Texas and California. Also, 85 percent of defendants convicted in this time frame received a prison sentence while about 14 percent received probation.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This spring, Michigan put into place changes that go the farthest in giving people a second chance. Over the last 20 years, expungement law has made strides with state-level reforms of which criminal records are eligible for expungement. As of April 2021, at least 11 states have automatic record expungement laws, says Pew.

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APRIL 18, 2023

In their Michigan office, S3 hired a CEO participant Channor Lewis , who has been providing help desk support to the Detroit-based energy company DTE Energy for the past 10 months. One of these partners is Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3), a woman-owned, global IT consulting and business services corporation.

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MAY 7, 2021

A 2018 report by the Prison Policy Initiative identified more than 30 states, including Texas and Michigan, that it said were driving a “gender divide” in imprisonment. Statistics suggest that women are the fastest rising demographic in America’s incarcerated population, even as the number of male inmates has declined.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2000, a 6-year-old boy fatally shot his 6-year-old classmate, Kayla Rolland , in their classroom at Buell Elementary School in Michigan while their teacher lined up other students in the hallway. The shooting followed a dispute on the playground. How do kids this young typically get guns?

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MARCH 10, 2023

District Attorney offices in East Tennessee are touting the early success of a joint initiative tackling drug trafficking between Detroit, Michigan and East Tennessee.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

jurisdictions where two-thirds or more of the prison population are serving sentences of at least a decade are: Georgia, West Virginia, Alabama, Montana, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, and Washington, DC. The 12 U.S.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Michigan, where 35 percent of households own a firearm , doesn’t have a child access prevention law on its books. Among the cases, the paper the found harshest penalty was a 29-month sentence for Jamelle James, a Michigan gun owner who stored a handgun in a shoebox. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge?

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Zeoli , Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan and Shannon Frattaroli , Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University. . Lisa Geller , director of state affairs at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, contributed to this article.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

30 shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan, which left four teenagers dead. Michigan legislators are set to discuss a bill that would impose a maximum penalty of five years in prison on a gun owner in the state when a minor gains access to an unsecured weapon and someone is injured or killed. “If Slotkin said.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Questions were also raised about how much informants encouraged a domestic terrorism plot in the case of a group of Michigan men charged with planning to kidnap the state’s governor. No terrorism case since Sept. 11, 2001, has been thrown out because of entrapment.

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MARCH 5, 2023

“Every aspect of the underclass culture in the ghettos is directly traceable to roots in the South,” Journalist Nicholas Lemann wrote at the time.

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MARCH 29, 2022

“If we are closing our doors to patients who have been on long-term opioids or need opioids for their pain, then we’re essentially asking our patients to find pain relief outside of the medical system,” Pooja Lagisetty , a physician investigator at the University of Michigan, told Bloomberg Law.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Institute for Justice client James King, an innocent college student who was beaten and choked unconscious by undercover officers in Michigan, defeated a qualified immunity defense in 2019 only to encounter additional layers of protection for his attackers.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

In Michigan, Prosecuting Attorneys Eli Savit and Karen McDonald established conviction review units that each saw their first exonerations in 2022, while in Portland, Oregon, District Attorney Mike Schmidt oversaw his first resentencing cases.

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JUNE 30, 2021

Samuel Gross , Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Michigan, is co-founder and senior editor of the National Registry of Exonerations. And the cases of prisoners who might be innocent should go to the front of the line for decision, not the back, so those who are innocent are freed before they reach old age or die.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Zimmerman, director of the Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center, told Wallethub in their expert review. “It seems after every horrific mass killing we get people to agree on something, but it rarely turns into much more change than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,” Dr. Marc A. We had 82 school shootings in 2018.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Before joining the University, she was a tenured Associate Professor at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan. Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law where she teaches criminal law and procedure, as well as trial advocacy and critical race theory. The forthcoming paper can be accessed here.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Nursing student and single mom Stephanie Wilson will soon have a date at the Michigan Supreme Court, and she could lose her car in the process. Yet rather than curb civil forfeiture, Michigan lawmakers expanded it in May with House Bills 4631 and 4632. These measures do not target motorists. Instead, they target airport travelers.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

An all-star cadre of scholars including Schwartz herself, the University at Cambridge’s Lawrence Sherman , David Thacher of the University of Michigan, David Klinger of the University of Missouri at St. Louis (himself a former cop), and others, has pointed out that these events are system failures, “organizational accidents.”

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