JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

1437 , which limited the scope of the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine and felony murder to prevent liability from being imposed on a person “who is not the actual killer, did not act with the intent to kill, or was not a major participant in the underlying felony who acted with reckless indifference to human life.”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. Federal Government 5%. Local government, excluding education and hospitals 4%.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2022

Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation for long periods of time amid a critical shortage of public defense attorneys have filed a lawsuit that alleges the state violated their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial, reports the Associated Press.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced that his office will dismiss roughly 60,000 marijuana convictions, the latest step to undo what some reform advocates consider the damage caused by narcotics enforcement carried out before Californians voted to legalize marijuana, reports the Los Angeles Times.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

I have been in the legal field for over 30 years and a paralegal going on eight years. Then, an opportunity came along to work for the County Public Defender’s Office, defending people in misdemeanor, felony, and now the only paralegal in the office on capital cases. .); Preparing legal memorandums is one of my favorite things to do.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

Watts had initially been charged with felony abuse of a corpse in October after Warren County police found the remains of her pregnancy in her toilet and trash. President and CEO Dr. Regina Davis Moss stated: [Watts’ experience] is a grave example of how Black women and their bodies face legal threats simply for existing.

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2022

Jagger Freeman has been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison because of New York’s felony murder law, a legal concept that broadens the crime of murder to include those who set into motion a series of events that lead to a person’s death, regardless of their intent, The Gothamist reports.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The defendants face charges of felony murder and false imprisonment. Defense attorneys argue that the three men did not commit any crimes and that they shot Arbery in self-defense due to their suspicion that Arbery was a burglar. Arbery was unarmed. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on October 18.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 22, 2022

.” Public defenders including a coalition from the Bronx Defenders filed suit against the city in Manhattan Supreme Court accusing the NYPD of abusing civil rights through accessing records they’re not legally entitled to, sealed through dismissal, acquittal or downgraded charges.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

Congress extended the Immigration and Nationality Act, which regulates immigration into the United States, in 1988 to give immigration enforcement authorities, now the Department of Homeland Security, the power to automatically deport noncitizens convicted of an “aggravated felony” at the state or federal level.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

In June, Cobb County then-District Attorney Joyette Holmes announced that a Georgia state grand jury indicted the three men on nine counts concerning the death of Arbery, from felony murder to false imprisonment. The McMichaels were also charged with one count each of using, carrying and brandishing a firearm.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 8, 2023

A retrial was allowed, the court concludes, “[b]ecause defendant’s original death judgment was reversed for legal error, and the reversal was not the equivalent of an acquittal.” ” The court also deals yet again with an issue regarding SB 1437 , which narrowed the felony-murder doctrine and allowed for possible resentencing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The trial followed an FBI investigation and prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colombia.

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At the Lectern

MAY 3, 2023

In response to a motion filed last month by the San Bernardino District Attorney’s office, the Supreme Court today returned the record to Newsom, ordering him to resubmit it and justify keeping confidential any portions of it that he wants to redact. However, the record from Brown’s request was partially unsealed in 2021.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

The Switzerland Office of the Attorney General (OAG) on Tuesday dropped a decade-old money laundering investigation exposed by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died under suspicious circumstances in a Russian jail in 2009. He died in 2009. Lauber was facing impeachment by Swiss parliamentarians. His successor has yet to be appointed.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 13, 2022

In an extensive San Francisco Chronicle obituary today, Jason Fagone described Riordan as “a relentless and uncannily persuasive San Francisco appeals lawyer who represented people convicted of serious felonies and repeatedly won their freedom, often by finding new evidence of their innocence and by exposing deep flaws in old trials.”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over 30 states lack laws that establish a firm deadline for initial appearances, requiring only that such appearances occur “within a reasonable time,” with the result that individuals can be held behind bars for weeks before seeing an attorney, charge the report’s authors. Additionally, jails are violent, cramped, and frightening places.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But what happens when a night of drinking leads to a felony? . Cymone Fuller, Director of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice, says there’s a lot of evidence backing up the need for change: “Decades of research show that contact with the legal system actually increases a person’s likelihood of causing harm in the future.”.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2023

Meetra Mehdizadeh, Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, raised concerns over the ban’s potential negative impacts, saying: This extreme law does nothing to protect people’s health. This decision was upheld by the North Dakota Supreme Court.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Newsom “sends prisoners to the parole board, allowing its commissioners — who include attorneys, former wardens and correctional officers — to decide their fate.” ” The in-depth piece mentions the Supreme Court’s role in the clemency process. Several requests asked permission to commute life-without-parole sentences.

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The Crime Report

MAY 11, 2022

Judges have dismissed nearly four dozen cases in the Portland area alone and have threatened to hold the state public defender’s office in contempt of court for failing to provide attorneys. Every existing attorney would have to work more than 26 hours a day during the work week to cover the caseload.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

What’s more, legal experts say that these shortages have been the operational norm for years across our country as a whole, Law360 reports. . Similarly, public defense attorneys in Oregon have to represent 203 cases per year, putting in about 10 hours per case, according to the reports. ” New Mexico and Oregon. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Last year, the court restricted the ability of state prisoners to develop new evidence to support claims that their attorneys failed to investigate leads that could have shown they were factually innocent. Jones involves a federal prisoner who is legally innocent – the conduct a jury found he committed isn’t a crime.

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Chugh LLP

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Speak to an attorney. If counselling does not repair your marriage, you should speak with an experienced divorce attorney. Only a divorce attorney can factor in your individual circumstances and provide you with holistic analysis of your situation. A legal separation does not end your marriage and instead puts it on hold.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A “cottage industry” has emerged in the past few years to fight for wrongfully convicted individuals, ranging from Conviction Integrity Units (CIUs) operated by district attorneys’ offices, to nonprofit or university-based groups like the Innocence Project and Northwestern University’s Exoneration Project.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 12, 2023

The prosecution acted under a Los Angeles County District Attorney directive to not contest certain resentencing petitions in felony-murder cases. According to the opinion, the recusal was ordered because of the district attorney’s “well-publicized association with critics of the Black Lives Matter movement.”

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I have never seen a young person do better because of detention,” said Rachel Shapiro, an attorney with the Juvenile Justice Project, which provides legal assistance to students with disabilities. When students are caught possessing drugs, they are not arrested unless they have enough to constitute a felony.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Defense attorneys would have protested if they knew what was going on, but county and court officials kept the arrangement quiet among themselves. They complained to an immigration and employment attorney about long hours and poor living conditions. responded by charging all 10 nurses and their attorney with “patient abandonment.”

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

These reports are part of the Commission’s statutory mandate and provide vital information and analysis to attorneys, scholars and the public. Similarly, the Commission found that nearly half of supervision violators engaged in new felony conduct, but the figure for probation violations was only one-third. percent, 28.07

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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Carol recalls vacillating arguments between Burton’s (“Johnny Cochrane-esque”) defense attorney and the Pennsylvania DA, (“who was more akin to Perry Mason”), and how much of the trial involved discerning which version of the facts the jury wished to believe.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

The remaining 97 percent have been decided by plea bargain: an arrangement made between a prosecutor, defense attorney, judge, and the defendant under which an individual enters a guilty or no contest plea in exchange for a reduction in the level of a charge, a reduced number of charges, or the recommendation of a lighter sentence.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 15, 2023

The state constitution requires a governor to get an affirmative court recommendation before granting clemency to anyone who, like all five, have been “twice convicted of a felony.” The return of the records follows motions by San Bernardino’s District Attorney and by the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

But offering the court an important legal issue is not alone enough to get a case heard. Some superior court judges even agreed with those district attorneys, ruling SB 1437 to be in violation of the state constitution. A frequently invoked ground for Supreme Court review of a case is when it is “necessary. Apparently not.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 17, 2022

2) To what extent or in what manner, if any, may a reviewing court consider the evidence in favor of a legally valid theory in assessing whether it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury based its verdict on the valid theory, when the record contains indications that the jury considered the invalid theory? Chiu (2014) 59 Cal.4th

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The US Attorney's Office in Seattle has reportedly issued a statement reminding residents in Washington State of that fact, and told Washingtonians that the Department of Justice plans to enforce Federal law on all Federal properties in the state. It is Federal law, of course, that governs the issuance and renewal of FCC licenses.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

The assistant district attorney, John Johnson, was entitled to strike up to 10 remaining jurors from the pool; he struck seven of the eight Black jurors. Once King’s case proceeded to trial, initial questioning of potential jurors by both the prosecution and defense whittled down the pool to 42 candidates, eight of whom were Black.

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