JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. Addressing the lawsuit, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta stated : SB 4 is clearly unconstitutional. The case is in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas Austin Division.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 26, 2023

Everyone is on the same page on the retroactivity issue — the defendant, the Attorney General, and the court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan. The parties’ dispute is about whether a prosecutor or trial court can opt to void a plea deal that included a probationary term that is now longer than permitted.

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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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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

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. In my office, we have had several cases we had to give to contract attorneys because of conflicts with co-defendants. Memorandums. Potential Juror List.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Supreme Court granted certiorari on November 22, 2022. The justices agreed to consider “whether a person commits aggravated identity theft any time he mentions or otherwise recites someone else’s name while committing a predicate offense.”.

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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. 922(g) prohibits people with felony convictions from possessing a firearm. Here is the background: 18 U.S.C. §

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

“Most defendants in federal firearms cases are charged pursuant to the Gun Control Act of 1968, which regulates interstate and foreign firearms commerce and prohibits certain persons, such as those with felony convictions, from possessing a firearm,” the study said. after peaking at 14,322 in 2004.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On Wednesday, Digmon was also charged with two felony counts of violating state ethics law for allegedly using her school board position to solicit a thing of value by selling more than $2,500 in advertisements to the board. ” Abuse of grand jury information is a felony under Alabama law. Theodore J.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Starr County, Texas district attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez, has dismissed the murder charge levied against Lizelle Herrera for having a “self-induced abortion,” saying that it was clear that she did not commit a criminal act under state law, reports the New York Times.

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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. The Supreme Court has never said,” the authors assert.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

That 2018 legislation, which scales back the felony-murder rule and the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine, has been attacked by various district attorney’s around the state as an invalid amendment of several voter initiatives and as a violation of the separation of powers. Apparently not.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 17, 2021

Esquivel today expands the number of convicted defendants who can take advantage of new statutes that reduce prison terms and that apply retroactively to non-final judgments. if the defendant may still timely obtain direct review of an order revoking probation and causing the state prison sentence to take effect.

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Livesay&Myers

APRIL 5, 2021

The fault grounds for divorce in Virginia are adultery, cruelty, desertion, and felony conviction and confinement in excess of one year. Under the current statute, one of the requirements to obtain your final order of divorce is an affidavit of a corroborating witness. There are advantages and disadvantages to each.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

It also is an appeal that would be made by the United States over the invalidation of a federal statute. Rickey Kanter was convicted of one count of felony mail fraud for defrauding Medicare in connection with therapeutic shoe inserts. Attorney General United States The Seventh Circuit panel split 2-1 with Barrett in dissent.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 27, 2022

Murder liability : The court granted the Attorney General’s petition for review in People v. 1437 , 2018 legislation that allows resentencing of some defendants convicted of felony murder or murder under a natural-and-probable-consequences theory. (See ” Unusually, there were a bare minimum four votes to hear the case. .”

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The Sixth District’s 2-1 published Burgos opinion held the statute is retroactive and reversed second degree robbery convictions. The dissent claimed “section 1109 is not an ameliorative statute. 4th 470 decision of statutes requiring evidence by two experts to bypass services. Tran (2022) 13 Cal.5th

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

where the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal, in a published opinion , affirmed almost $170,000 in attorneys fees after a jury awarded less than $22,000 for a violation of the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (commonly known as the “lemon law”) in the sale of a used car. The court granted review in Pulliam v.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2021

Menetrez, a former Horvitz & Levy attorney, wrote the article before becoming a judge. Supreme Court case changed the rule in 2010, the defendant’s attorney “had no affirmative duty. ” The court depublished the opinion of the Second District, Division Eight, in People v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2023

First, there is the gifted attorney and expert on issues ranging from trains to energy. The Justice Department has allowed felonies to lapse against Hunter, but these would be new potential charges with new dates under the statute of limitation. We will have to wait for the public hearing to see which Hunter will appear.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 17, 2022

” The dissenter said she was “confounded by [the superior court’s] failure to try more [felony trials for in-custody defendants] after fully reopening in June 2021.” Over another Justice Liu recorded dissenting vote, the court denied review of the Sixth District’s unpublished opinion in People v.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Four-justice separate statement, citing amicus letters, urges legislative action on vessel speed limit statute. 5th 326 decision that a parole eligibility statute applicable to minors — but not to young adult offenders — sentenced to life without parole doesn’t violate equal protection principles.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 11, 2022

Attorney fees. includes attorney fees. ” The majority held the statute doesn’t apply to “plea agreements with a stipulated prison term.” .” The opinion also mentioned the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Covid Coverage Litigation Tracker website. HNL Automotive Inc.

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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. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019. That is what is happening.”. Critic: Bail Reform Made Things Worse. percent and 25.1

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At the Lectern

APRIL 11, 2024

The court in Everett on Discipline ordered the State Bar Court’s Review Department to file as timely an attorney’s petition for review and other documents. .” (See Sammy Roth’s December column in the Los Angeles Times for a more detailed look at what’s involved.) ” Lawsuit dismissal and res judicata.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

b) Involuntary—in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection. This incident could well prove a violation of a statute or regulation making the act “negligent per se.”

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Among the city’s five district attorneys, this rate ranged from a high of 23 percent in Manhattan to just 1 percent in the Bronx, where just a single hate crime arrest out of a total of 92 resulted in a hate crime conviction since District Attorney Darcel Clark took control of the office in 2016.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Felony drug distribution carried a maximum sentence of 30 years and a fine up to $500,000 when I practiced as a prosecutor in DC. If local and federal prosecutors don’t apply the law’s statutes precisely — within the spirit of the law — I believe that’s exactly what we will see. Let’s look at the federal “felon in possession” statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Rollins challenges a Massachusetts law that makes it a felony to secretly record the speech of anyone other than a law enforcement officer, irrespective of motive. whose attorneys contribute to SCOTUSblog in various capacities, is counsel to the respondents in this case. Project Veritas Action Fund v. In Viking River Cruises, Inc.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 13, 2023

She sought resentencing under 2018 legislation — Senate Bill 1437 — that narrowed murder liability under the felony murder theory and eliminated it under the natural and probable consequences doctrine. Strong (2022) 13 Cal.5th 5th 698 (see here ); People v. Lewis (2021) 11 Cal.5th 5th 952 (see here ).)

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” The court indicated that the attorney general had broad power to propound the interrogatories.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

Because the station cannot censor the candidate ad (except in the exceptionally rare situation where the airing of the ad might violate a Federal felony statute), the broadcaster has no liability for the contents of the ad. In fact, the Communications Act forbids a station from censoring a candidate ad.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Between 1997 and 2016, Congress enacted eight additional sex offender-related statutes , all of which are designed to either enhance or improve the tracking of sex offenders of every stripe through registration. A few months later in 2007 Lane was arrested and charged with a third-degree felony for failure to register as a sex offender.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

In 1991, he received a felony conviction for driving under the influence under California law and completed his sentence. The government alleged that he was removable, despite having a green card, because it believed that his 1991 DUI constituted an “aggravated felony” under the immigration laws. Ochoa , reached a similar result.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

.” As written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission, i.e., the underlying felony solicited. Kimbrough, 300 Ga.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

I was highly skeptical of the charges brought by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was later removed from the case due to ethical concerns. The department denied Guastello’s application for another liquor license based on the statute’s mandate that no person convicted of a liquor law violation could receive a liquor license.

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