The Crime Report
JANUARY 21, 2022
New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.
ALPS
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Margaret Ogden serves as the Wellness Coordinator in the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, where she’s tasked with improving the mental health and wellbeing of Virginians in the legal profession through education, regulation and outreach. And we have a few other states that are doing that as well.
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The Crime Report
OCTOBER 11, 2021
A groundbreaking study by the Rand Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes this point. This isn’t the tail wagging the dog; this tail has swallowed the dog. I’ve spent nearly 50 years defending criminal cases, and I don’t expect an Armistice to be declared any time soon.
The Estrin Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
My practice areas include Family Law and Criminal Defense. On the criminal side, I handle low level misdemeanors up to felonies. I randomly received a phone call from an old friend from law school asking if I could analyze a murder case on Court TV. I enjoy practicing law virtually.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
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.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 1, 2024
The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. The relevance of the Comstock Act to the issue of the availability of mifepristone is highly contested and unlikely to draw a majority on the Court. The repeal of the Comstock Act is long overdue. and Maurice C.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
Many migrants are released soon after capture, including some without a hearing date or court dates that are years in the future. Moreover, it is not clear how transporting migrants who entered the country illegally to another state is a violation of law. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.
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