JURIST

JUNE 12, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that “reckless” crimes qualify as violent felonies for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). ” Petitioner Charles Borden Jr. ” Petitioner Charles Borden Jr.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

At trial, however, prosecutor Thomas Binger at points seemed to be learning the governing law from Rittenhouse. Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly. It is called the “rule of lenity” and has been around in the English system for centuries.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

Garner addressed a fleeing unarmed suspects and found the state statute too broad: The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. However, an officer is justified in using deadly force only if the officer: (1)?has

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. Gonzalez came to the Supreme Court, which agreed last fall to weigh in.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

During her six years in the solicitor general’s office, Kruger argued 12 cases at the Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government. The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, unanimously rejected that position and held that the ministerial exception applied. Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Maryland v.

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