The Crime Report
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? Michigan, where 35 percent of households own a firearm , doesn’t have a child access prevention law on its books. The felony charges filed against the Crumbleys could result in a maximum prison sentence of 15 years on each count of involuntary manslaughter.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 20, 2021
In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. This despite the fact that we know myriad innocent people charged with felonies plead guilty. Somil Trivedi is Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project.
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The Crime Report
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Castile’s death spurred Ramsey County, MN Attorney John Choi to announce that he was ending the prosecution of cases resulting from non-public safety traffic stops. Yet they have been met with swift and vocal backlash. The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association called his efforts “insulting.”.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 8, 2022
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked the Michigan Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council, a state agency, to appoint a special prosecutor to consider charges against nine people in connection with an effort to gain access to voting machines after the 2020 election, reports the Associated Press.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 8, 2021
a Michigan-based indirect subsidiary, on the ground that a private arbitration counts as a “foreign or international tribunal” for Section 1782. whose attorneys contribute to SCOTUSblog in various capacities, is counsel to the petitioner in this case. Following precedent in the U.S. Disclosure : Goldstein & Russell, P.C.,
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 16, 2021
For felony charges, the Salem News details that petitioners have to wait at least seven years, misdemeanors mean waiting three years. The Crime Report detailed earlier this year that a University of Michigan study found that most people eligible for expungement don’t apply for it — only 6.5
The Crime Report
JULY 22, 2022
While a minority of legal pundits might still argue that there may not be enough evidence to prosecute Trump for seditious conspiracy, there can no longer be any doubt about Trump’s culpability for the criminal felonies of obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and witness tampering.
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