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). The Supreme Court reversed that judgment and remanded the case.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

Share With a majority opinion that will be one of Justice Stephen Breyer’s last for the Supreme Court, the court on Monday ruled 9-0 that two alleged opioids “pill mill” doctors could not be convicted absent a jury finding that they subjectively believed they were wrongfully dispensing pills. The case, Ruan v.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Supreme Court (six justices) issued a noteworthy opinion on criminal liability related to prescribers of controlled substances. The Supreme Court granted certiorari to resolve the Circuit split. Gilbert & Karla L. Palmer — On June 27, 2022, in one of the last opinions issued during its current term, a majority of the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

United States , the Supreme Court analyzed the Armed Career Criminal Act ’s force clause or elements clause. In this case, the court had to decide whether the term “violent felony” includes crimes committed with a reckless state of mind. The case came to the court after Charles Borden Jr. Share In Borden v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

In past columns, we have discussed how Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe seems intent upon running through the entire criminal code in declaring clear evidence of every federal crime by former President Donald Trump and/or his family. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” That is a far cry from evidence showing mens rea — “guilty mind.” At 4:17 p.m., In Brandenburg v.

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