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Ohio Supreme Court Decides 65 Year Prison Sentence for Nursing Home Thief Will Stand

The Crime Report

The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided that the 65-year prison sentence given to a former nursing home aide who stole personal items from residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities should stand, Dan Trevas reports for Court News Ohio.

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States Increase Efforts to End ‘Internal Exile’ of Former Incarcerees: Report

The Crime Report

Arizona also repealed a law authorizing suspension of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and authorized its courts to redesignate some felonies as misdemeanors, the report details. .

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Oberlin’s Revenge Mania: College Finally Runs Out of Appeals in Campaign Against Family-Owned Bakery

JonathanTurley

The Ohio Supreme Court had rejected what should be Oberlin College’s final appeal of a verdict in favor of Gibson’s Bakery. Oberlin maintained in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery “violently and unreasonably attacked” an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it.

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Court asked to review prosecution of Jan. 6 participants, with implications for Trump

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Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A day later, Trump posted on his Truth Social account that “ the Supreme Court must intercede.” A federal district court in Washington agreed and dismissed the obstruction charges. 6 attack on the U.S.

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Private Prisons Exert Dark Influence Over Carceral State: Paper

The Crime Report

have emerged as a powerful political voice and exerted an influence that has distorted justice systems across the country, according to an Ohio State University Legal Studies Research Paper. Another study cited by Pratt found that doubling private prison capacities in a state increased sentence lengths in that state’s courts by 1.3

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Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, All he Needs Now is a Crime

JonathanTurley

It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the standard for obscenity famously described by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case of Jacobellis v. Ohio , 378 U.S. We have never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before any election in 2024.

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

The Crime Report

Criminologically speaking, how does a schism exist between his 2024 supporters who believe in Trump’s persecution by the state and those who oppose the habitually corrupt former president’s third run for POTUS as Trump continues to provoke violence in violation of court orders not to?

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