The Crime Report
AUGUST 24, 2021
Leaving intact the nation’s “most aggressively broad” statute criminalizing certain speech and conduct directed toward school employees, the Masters case involved Johnathan Masters, an education graduate student who distributed surveys to secondary school students as part of his research.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Texas authorities say they have the right to keep it under civil forfeiture statutes. Jerry Johnson, an Institute for Justice client from North Carolina, found out the hard way in 2020 when three plainclothes officers stopped him at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Photo courtesy Institute for Justice. An Airport Stop.
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At the Lectern
APRIL 29, 2021
2020) 50 Cal.App.5th ” The Second District, Division Six, denied habeas relief in an unpublished opinion that expressly disagreed with a 2020 decision by the Second District, Division One ( People v. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2018) 25 Cal.App.5th 5th 398 from the Third District and Spikener v.
At the Lectern
MARCH 24, 2022
A157169) 2019 WL 5654385, review denied ), held that pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect did not categorically allow the police to enter a home without a warrant. The statute proscribes a reviewing court from “render[ing] a decision in a proceeding. Lange (Oct. 30, 2019, No. California (2021) 141 S.Ct. 2011, 210 L.Ed.2d
The Crime Report
MAY 16, 2022
In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. By January 1 of 2020 that population had been reduced by 2,000 people all at once. Before those people were released, crime in New York City was down 1.7
The Crime Report
JUNE 29, 2021
Moreover, some $40 per month of misdemeanor probation fees mostly go directly to the county system. Brad Little to apply the same emergency executive powers used during the pandemic to “suspend state statutes and rules authorizing the assessment and collection of juvenile fees.”. It called on Gov.
The Crime Report
JUNE 14, 2022
Current sentencing restrictions are why we see misdemeanor level sentences for violent crimes, like the 140 day sentence Denezpi was originally handed down for his assault charges. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the dissent. In May, Amnesty International called on the U.S.
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