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Off-duty Virginia police officer sentenced to 87 months for January 6 riot

JURIST

Attorney Matthew M. The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Moerschel is additionally charged with destruction of government property and aiding and abetting. The men were sentenced in the District of Columbia.

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Why Police are ‘Natural Allies’ in the Fight Against Drug Abuse

The Crime Report

And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. The harm reduction organization Eleyvst , the Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance (PRO-A) , and the data firm RIWI sought to do just that with their new, ambitious public opinion survey.

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Locked and Loaded: Third Circuit Declares Federal Gun Law Unconstitutional Over Ex-Felon Rights

JonathanTurley

However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. Attorney General United States Range received three years’ probation (which he completed) and had to pay thousands in fines. That triggered the federal ban.

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Biden’s Classified-Records Headache is Garland’s Special-Counsel Nightmare

JonathanTurley

The discovery (and later addition of a second batch of classified material at a second location) is magnifying the inherently conflicted position of Attorney General Merrick Garland. There indeed are obvious differences in the two cases, but the underlying danger of a misdemeanor charge still remains in both.

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Supreme Court takes three cases and depublishes three opinions; dissenting votes in four review denials

At the Lectern

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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Biden’s Closet: It is Not the Crime But the Clarity That Concerns the Press and Pundits

JonathanTurley

” 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. Instead, the Bidens found another source at the University of Pennsylvania to cover their office needs.

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Path To Well-Being In Law Podcast: Episode 6 – Tim Carroll & Margaret Odgen

ALPS

A lawyer by training, Margaret began her career in the Roanoke City Commonwealth Attorney’s Office prosecuting criminal cases and then went on to defend criminal cases throughout the Roanoke and New River Valleys. As you touched on, my last position was a policy position working for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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