At the Lectern

APRIL 22, 2021

Jaimes , but it granted the Attorney General’s request to depublish the Fifth District’s divided, partially published opinion that held the superior court erroneously responded to a jury question about the meaning of a charged sentence enhancement for a person “convicted of a felony committed. Renteria , below.).

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Rahimi was involved in five shootings between December 2020 and January 2021. In Bruen , the Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that New York State’s Sullivan Act, passed in 1911—which required anyone applying for a pistol concealed carry license to show “proper cause”—was unconstitutional.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

A federal appeals court ruled that Gonzalez’s case could not go forward because she had not provided examples of others who had engaged in the same kind of conduct but had not engaged in protected speech and had not been arrested. The district attorney ultimately declined to pursue the charges against Gonzalez.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Oklahoma , the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern half of Oklahoma remains “Indian country” for purposes of the Major Crimes Act , meaning that the federal government, not the state, has authority for prosecuting Native Americans for major crimes committed on reservations. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld the CADA.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A 2020 study from the FBI warned against using 911 call analysis to bring actual cases. While there is no index that lists cases in which bloodstain-pattern analysis played a role, state appellate court rulings show that the technique has played a factor in felony cases across the country.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The ACCA extends the minimum sentence – from 10 years to 15 – for an individual who had been convicted of a felony and possesses a firearm when that person has at least three “serious drug offenses.” United States and Jackson v. United States , involving the Armed Career Criminal Act. Tori Madden) In Wilkinson v.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Between 2019 and 2020, the murder rate rose by 29 percent nationwide, marking the largest recorded jump in a one-year period since the FBI began releasing annual figures in the 1960s. Unlike other large counties in the state, violent and property crimes were down in 2020 in Contra Costa County.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Share The court will hear oral argument next term in a challenge to the congressional redistricting plan that South Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted in the wake of the 2020 census. The justices added Alexander v. and two cases involving the Armed Career Criminal Act. United States and Jackson v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

He also livestreamed his encounter with police on May 6, 2020 with the gun visible. to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or. 11, 2020, the NFL published a video a part of its “Say Their Stories” campaign featuring Reed. Reed had been driving recklessly and hit a couple of vehicles.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In late 2020, I applied for a position as a Border Patrol Agent with the United States Border Patrol (USBP). From a legal perspective, since the 1930s , the courts have found polygraphs to be invalid for usage in prosecutions and legal cases. I can speak from experience. I was confident of being accepted. In 1998, however, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share During a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate, then-candidate Joe Biden pledged that, if elected, he would nominate a Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kruger was sworn into office in January 2015, becoming only the second Black woman to serve on the California Supreme Court. Following the U.S.

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