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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

JonathanTurley

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. Some states have moved to penalize those who do not call police.

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Connecticut High School Student Arrested For Posting Racist Slur

JonathanTurley

Here is what the provision states: “Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.”

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Policing Pronouns: How “Misgendering” is Becoming the New Battleground Over Discrimination

JonathanTurley

The appellate court ruled that the 2017 law unconstitutionally restricted “freedom of speech” by classifying “willful and repeated” misgendering and deadnaming as a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $2,500 or imprisonment of up to 180 days. You can find his updates on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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Fourth Circuit Overturns Conviction Of Retired Air Force Colonel For Using Racial Slur

JonathanTurley

” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent. Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416, The temptation is particularly great in cases like this one when defending free speech can be confused with supporting bigotry.

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Can More Jury Trials Save the Justice System?

The Crime Report

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D.

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Rittenhouse Goes To Jury After Case Collapses in Court

JonathanTurley

Rittenhouse is facing six charges that range from first-degree homicide to a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. At this stage, the prosecution may celebrate even a misdemeanor conviction. It is either the product of systemic errors or systemic racism. Prosecution’s bumpy start, and finish.

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The Return of Anthony Comstock: The Abortion Pill Case Raises a Law With A Dark and Troubling Past

JonathanTurley

He then used the mailing to have the sisters re-arrested for a federal misdemeanor for the interstate mailing. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. After they defied him and continued to publish, he went to Connecticut to mail copies of the paper to an alias.

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