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Grosskreutz v. Grosskreutz? Surviver from 2020 Kenosha Shooting Sues Kyle Rittenhouse

JonathanTurley

Gaige Grosskreutz who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha riots in 2020 is now suing him as well as Wisconsin police and officials. In 2012, Grosskreutz was charged with a felony burglary charge in New Berlin when he was caught trying to sell three stolen PlayStation consoles. it is back.

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Can the ‘War’ on Gun Violence Learn From the Mistakes of the War on Drugs?

The Crime Report

For decades, attorneys, activists, academics, and even judges have openly critiqued the War on Drugs and its associated harsh enforcement policies such as mandatory minimum sentencing. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions.

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The Supreme Court doesn’t decide all important issues

At the Lectern

That 2018 legislation, which scales back the felony-murder rule and the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine, has been attacked by various district attorney’s around the state as an invalid amendment of several voter initiatives and as a violation of the separation of powers. Marquez (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th

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The Secret Success of Federal Probationers

The Crime Report

These reports are part of the Commission’s statutory mandate and provide vital information and analysis to attorneys, scholars and the public. Unfortunately, the Commission’s July 2020 report on Federal Probation and Supervised Release Violations contains a major mistake that greatly overstates the dangerousness of federal probationers.

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Patients Went to This Isolated Facility for Treatment. Instead, Nearly Two Dozen Were Charged With Crimes.

The Crime Report

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. Williams, records show, is far from the only patient to have faced criminal charges. Tyler Edmonds, who was the state’s attorney when most of the patients were charged, is no longer in that role.

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NYC Transit Safety Endangered by Reforms, Reduced Enforcement: Paper

The Crime Report

“Over the five arrests made for six of the 10 subway murders since March 2020, four of the suspects, allegedly responsible for five murders among them, had had previous run-ins with the law for alleged or convicted violent offenses.”. felonies fell by 15 percent?helped violent felonies per million rides, it was still 3.1

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Texas city council member argues retaliatory arrest

SCOTUSBlog

The district attorney ultimately declined to pursue the charges against Gonzalez. In her complaint, Gonzalez noted that she was the only person charged in the past 10 years under the state’s government records law for temporarily misplacing a document. Gonzalez filed a federal civil rights claim in Sept.