The Crime Report
JANUARY 10, 2023
Washington’s Supreme Court declared Washington’s felony drug possession statute unconstitutional in 2021 because it made possession a felony, whether someone was aware of the drugs being on them or not. Lawmakers responded to the ruling by temporarily making drug possession a simple misdemeanor.
At the Lectern
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Henderson , the Supreme Court today holds that a 2012 initiative did not eliminate superior courts’ discretion to impose concurrent, instead of consecutive, sentences under the “Three Strikes” law for felonies committed on the same occasion or that arose from the same set of operative facts. In People v.
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JURIST
DECEMBER 8, 2023
The new charges join the two previous charges filed against him in a federal court in Delaware. Biden now faces 11 charges in total—three felonies and eight misdemeanors. Weiss is also the lead prosecutor on the two federal criminal tax charges brought against Biden in a Delaware court.
Paralegal Bootcamp
MAY 6, 2022
They can also find positions on the State level, such as the Attorney General’s Office, and finally, opportunities exist at the Federal level with various agencies such as the Department of Justice, Military, Courts, Social Security Administration, CIA, Department of Transportation, and IRS to name a few. What is a Government Paralegal?
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
And to what will it bind lower courts? Dobbs reiterates the long-established principle that unwritten rights, to be enforced by courts, must be deeply rooted in our history. Yet while the draft changed not at all on these points, the dissent makes just one contrary claim, also raised by critics post-leak.
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. At any time during this process, your attorney may have you draft the document(s) or perform some research. Conflict Checks. Knowing the Rules of Evidence.
The Crime Report
APRIL 19, 2022
By night he drafted court documents for judges to sign. As a subsequent ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals finally made clear, the arrangement was not a momentary lapse in judgment or a one-time offense induced under pressure. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on March 9 that the nurses cannot sue. Alexa Gervasi.
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