JURIST

APRIL 4, 2021

Major League Baseball (MLB) announced Friday that the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB draft will not be held in Georgia, in response to Georgia’s new voting restrictions that were signed into law on March 25. . President Joe Biden called the law “Jim Crow in the 21 st Century,” as the restrictions disproportionately affect Black voters.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

Sharon Basch is a rising 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Within the last few years, the US Supreme Court has seen a large volume of what are and will be considered landmark cases – cases that have a lasting and significant effect on law, often concerning individual rights and liberties. Milligan and Moore v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Donziger appealed the district judges’ decision, arguing that the injunction wrongfully encroached on his ability to enforce the Ecuadorian judgment in other countries on behalf of his clients, devastated his law practice, and would preclude his clients from financing an appeal by selling interests in the Ecuadorian judgment.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

The new law allows those accused of a crime to ask for an extra court hearing if they believe they acted in self-defense. Individuals charged with a felony or class A misdemeanor can ask for this hearing, unless they are accused of attacking a police officer. The yearly toll reached a new high of 1,021 fatal shootings in 2020.

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Livesay&Myers

APRIL 8, 2020

Members of the Virginia legislature have concluded their work for the 2020 session. The new law, which goes into effect on July 1, 2020, will make proving adultery easier in divorce and other family law cases in Virginia. Adultery is a crime in Virginia—a Class 4 misdemeanor under Virginia Code § 18.2-365.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

A very bold and impressive broad-gauged indictment that few, if any legal pundits, saw coming. Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2020, millions of people took to the streets in a nationwide reckoning with racial injustice and the American carceral system. Congress has failed to pass police reform, there has been disappointing backlash against racial equity efforts, and injustice continues to permeate our criminal legal system. In Norfolk, Va.,

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Abbott’s office has said that 1,672 people died from fentanyl-related deaths in 2021, according to preliminary data, compared with 883 in 2020. Nationwide, more than 71,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2021, a 23% increase over 2020. Just a few years before, in 2018, the state registered only 214 fentanyl-related deaths.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

Bragg has refused to clearly define the crime that Trump was seeking to conceal when payments for a non-disclosure agreement were listed as a legal expense. to 14.5 %, in the 2020 presidential election. You have a case based on two dead misdemeanors shocked back into life by a still mysterious theory of an undefined crime.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

25, 2020, the prosecutors raised questions about why he inserted himself at the scene — and his use of the deadly weapon. Wisconsin Gun Laws. They had planned to engage in a lawful transfer of gun ownership when Rittenhouse turned 18, according to the Washington Post. Legal Claim to Self Defense? . On the day of Aug.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. It is a Thanksgiving that perfectly captures 2020. _. coli inflections. He later confessed.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

This guide, authored by County Attorney Reese Frederickson from Minnesota, IIP Deputy Director Alissa Marque Heydari, a nd IIP Legal Fellow Chloe Marmet , spotlights individuals who have implemented restorative justice programs to meet the needs of the victims, society, and the accused in their communities. Smaller Communities, Big Changes.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

. “We don’t have strong enough laws,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told reporters at a Dec. You’re not legally required to store your weapon in a safe manner.” That law doesn’t require the gun purchaser to use the safety device sold with their firearm. Child Access Prevention Laws in 29 States.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

All of the three main players — Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Special Counsel Jack Smith — will face immediate challenges in the legal arms race unfolding in Washington. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned that conviction as having stretched the law beyond its breaking point.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

Andrew Cuomo’s future remains uncertain following a report by the state attorney general’s office concluding that he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women throughout his recent political career — breaking state and federal laws, NBC News and The City NYC report. . Photo by Welington Abraham Trump via Flickr. .”

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

have emerged as a powerful political voice and exerted an influence that has distorted justice systems across the country, according to an Ohio State University Legal Studies Research Paper. During the 2020 election cycle, GEO’s founder contributed $500,000 to Republican campaigns, but just $10,000 dollars to Democrats.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I recently wrote a column stating that the sixth count appeared to be based on a factually and legally inapplicable provision of Wisconsin law. But the Facebook post claimed that it was “perfectly legal” for the teenager to carry an assault-style rifle in Kenosha. Either way, we rate the post False.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. In the George Floyd riots, at least 126 journalists were arrested or detained in 2020. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Ohio, 378 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

On August 3, President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to criminal charges related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol and interfering with the results of the 2020 election. Capitol – and possibly, the former president – under a financial-crimes law that bars obstruction of government proceedings. Chiaverini v.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While the appalling circumstances surrounding my arrest and dismissal of my case didn’t make headline news, the event introduced me firsthand to the long-lasting harm caused by law enforcement agencies’ practice of publishing booking mugshots online. As a law-obeying citizen, I had never had as much as a traffic ticket. .

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2021

The study, published by the Idaho Law Review, exposed what its authors call an unhealthy conflict between using fines and fees as both a source of revenue and punishment, and said they imposed an inequitable burden on the rural poor and communities of color. See Also: Report Calls for an End to Debtors’ Prisons.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Denezpi’s legal team appealed on double-jeopardy grounds and then appealed the denial, where the 9th Circuit denied him. In January, Amanda White Eagle of the American Indian Sovereignty Project filed an Amici Curiae brief on behalf of a collective of federal Indian law scholars and historians.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

In the law, the “designated defendant” is often a chump who is given some impressive title, a good salary, and the authority to sign reports or filings for a corporation. He kept up that self-destructive lifestyle , he said, until his father’s 2020 presidential campaign began. Hunter Biden finally is important.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Biased media viewers.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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. percent misdemeanor and technical violations (grade C), while I found the rates for probation violators were 6.99 percent, 28.07

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

He was specifically referring to the prosecutions linked to the 2020 election denial in Atlanta and D.C. So that leaves the two cases surrounding the 2020 election. Powell pleaded to misdemeanors for a deal that avoids jail time and preserves her ability to resume the practice of law. Jamie Raskin (D-Md).

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

At the same time, the institution and its employees sought charges against patients even as watchdogs say it failed to provide legally required services, such as individualized therapy for people with traumatic histories and poor coping mechanisms. Some patients faced multiple charges over several years.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

police chief) and his academic colleagues found that a majority of police officers surveyed “perceived control” over their decision to arrest for misdemeanors (69 percent) or confiscate drug paraphernalia like syringes (56 percent). Not coincidentally, Oregon decriminalized drug possession in 2020. Rory Fleming.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. But, around the same time, American legal reformers started looking between states for inspiration, which helped the U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Disobeying commands during a law enforcement encounter can lead to arrest or worse. Using a law enforcement procedure called civil forfeiture, Harris County seized the money and is attempting to keep it permanently. Once Woods mentioned the large amount of currency in the trunk of his car, the sergeant got aggressive. An Airport Stop.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. percent , in the 2020 presidential election. percent to 14.5 In 1878, in Reynolds v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Capitol building where Congress was forced to temporarily halt counting the 2020 Electoral College votes, Politico and the Wall Street Journal recount. One year later, hundreds of individuals face charges related to their involvement in the rally and insurrection, but questions still remain about what legally comes next, CBS News reports.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 6, 2022

However, many of their disclosures simply confirm what is already known: Then- President Trump and close associates wanted to challenge Congress’ certification of the 2020 presidential election and, instead, force Congress to select the next president. 6, 2020, and opposed his efforts to challenge the certification.

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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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2023

Yet enough similarities exist that Justice could weigh charges in both cases, even if only misdemeanors. For example, Georgia’s Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, is investigating Trump over the 2020 election; the case has some major evidentiary and legal issues to overcome in any trial — but Trump could well be indicted.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

Below is my column in Fox.com on the discovery of highly classified documents in a closet in the private office used by President Joe Biden before 2020. ” Washington is in full spin control with pundits who previously said that even a misdemeanor conviction of Trump should bar him from ever running again for federal office.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”.

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