ABA Journal

JUNE 23, 2021

Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police officers who are pursuing a misdemeanor suspect aren’t necessarily entitled to enter a home without a… Developing: The U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2024

The US Supreme Court has lifted a stay that prohibited the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries, allowing the law to go into effect. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later blocked that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday in the case of Arthur Lange, a northern California man convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol. The post Justices hear argument on whether “hot pursuit” for misdemeanors allows police to enter home without a warrant appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The US Supreme Court, in a split decision, issued a brief statement on Thursday refusing to reinstate a Florida law that targets drag shows. A lower court order previously prohibited the law from coming into effect. ” Anyone found to be in violation fo the law would be charged with a misdemeanor.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 20, 2021

Supreme Court clarified when police may enter the home without a warrant. It held that, under the Fourth Amendment , the pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always (or categorically) qualify as an exigent circumstance justifying a warrantless entry into a home. The California Court of Appeal also affirmed.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The New York Court of Appeals upheld a New York City law Monday that banned chokehold restraints, thereby rejecting a police union challenge that called the law unconstitutional. The unions scored a victory at the trial level which found the law to be overly vague before an appeals court overturned the decision.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously in Lange v. California that, under the Fourth Amendment, pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always or categorically qualify as an exigent circumstance justifying warrantless entry into a home.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

The Ohio Supreme Court has suspended a lawyer who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault after being accused of touching his stepdaughter’s 18-year-old friend in a…

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

If HB 285 is passed into law, public librarians could be guilty of misdemeanors for violating the state’s criminal obscenity provisions. In the US Supreme Court case Miller v. California , the court used a three-prong test to determine if language is obscene. Earlier this month, t he Idaho Senate approved House Bill No.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Share A divided Supreme Court on Thursday denied Florida’s request to allow it to temporarily enforce a law that makes it a misdemeanor to allow children at drag performances. The brief unsigned order means that the state cannot apply the law anywhere in the state while a Florida restaurant’s challenge to the law continues.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held Wednesday that workers in California will not be forced into arbitration as a condition of employment. Violations of the law can be considered a misdemeanor offense, which potentially may result in civil sanctions for the employer.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

There is a controversy at the University of Wisconsin this week after the Dane County District Attorney’s Office in Wisconsin filed misdemeanor battery charges against three teens suspected in the brutal assault of a UW-Madison Chinese PhD student. Instead, such pattern evidence can be weighed in the sentencing on the misdemeanor charges.

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CourtTechBulletin

MAY 17, 2022

[link] A report on the results of “The Court Appearance Project” in North Carolina was released recently. Relying on their combined expertise and the findings from the data, each county team crafted policy solutions that they believed would deliver a high impact in their courts and communities.3

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2022

Protestors now face second degree misdemeanor charges with the possible punishment of 60 days in jail and fines of up to $500. Should protestors not disperse, however, the bill makes any violation a misdemeanor in the second degree. Following the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that Missouri is not barred from enforcing a state law that criminalizes misleading advertisements of vegan food products as containing meat. Because of this, the appeals court denied the motion for a preliminary injunction but allowed the suit to proceed to trial on the merits.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2023

Director Nils Muižnieks issued his statement after Greece’s Court of Appeal of Mytilene dropped some of the misdemeanor charges previously laid against the volunteers. The statute of limitations for the remaining misdemeanor charges against the two will expire in February. All we want is justice.

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2022

The complaint filed in the District of Columbia stated: “Gray is charged with civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding, both felonies, as well as misdemeanor offenses. Isaacs is charged with destruction of documents, a felony, and related misdemeanors, and Hallon is charged with misdemeanor offenses.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, was sentenced on Friday to six months in prison for criminal contempt of court. The initial dispute originated in 2011 after an Ecuadorian court rendered a $9.5 The appeals court upheld Judge Kaplan’s findings in 2016.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Lange v. The court examined whether the pursuit of a person–whom a police officer had probable cause to believe committed a misdemeanor–categorically qualifies as an exigent circumstance sufficient to allow the officer to enter a home without a warrant.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Virginia law states that any motorist pulled over for driving 20 miles per hour or more about the limit (to an excess of 80 mph in any speed limit) the driver is eligible to be charged with a Class 1 misdemeanor violation. At the court stage, the courts amended or dismissed misdemeanor speeding charges 42 percent of the time.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Riverside County Superior Court in California has dismissed three separate felony child sexual assault cases in one week due to the court’s inability to begin trials within the required timeframe, including one case so serious the defendant faced a possible life sentence, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.

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JURIST

JUNE 25, 2022

It also enhances the background check review process for juveniles and people convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors. 2938 provides grants to states that pass laws that allow law enforcement to petition courts to remove firearms from people deemed to be a threat to themselves or others.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Oregon has the equivalent of 600 full-time court-appointed attorneys, who have historically shouldered about 75,000 adult criminal cases a year. In Multnomah County, the court system delayed more than 700 unrepresented misdemeanor cases and 800 unrepresented felony cases from February through mid-August.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 23, 2021

“‘Hot Pursuit’ Doesn’t Always Justify Entry, Supreme Court Rules; The mere flight of a person suspected of a minor crime, without more, does not allow police officers to enter homes without warrants, the court said”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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NCBA

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

By the North Carolina Judicial Branch Are you interested in understanding more about criminal court case processing in North Carolina? Courtesy of the North Carolina Judicial Branch, the Paralegal Division blog is publishing a three-part series the first three weeks of February.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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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JURIST

JUNE 14, 2022

Members of white supremacist group Patriot Front Monday were released from jail on bond after being charged with conspiracy to riot , a misdemeanor. The men have until June 30 to contact the court and set a date for their court appearances. Each man bonded out of the Kootenai County Jail for $300.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that officers pursuing someone suspected of a misdemeanor cannot always enter a home without a warrant if a suspect enters. Andy Beshear signed a bill limiting the use of no-knock warrants in April after police killed Breonna Taylor during a botched police raid on her home in March 2020.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Walsh — As readers of the FDA Law Blog know, the FDC Act is a strict liability criminal enforcement statute that can impose criminal misdemeanor penalties on a person without any showing of intent. Richard Marschall, a “naturopathic doctor,” had been convicted in 2017 for a misdemeanor violation of the FDC Act for selling misbranded drugs.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 15, 2021

6 attack, a misdemeanor with a sentence of up to six months, in a plea deal that could set a benchmark for hundreds of other cases, reports Reuters. Jessica and Joshua Bustle of Bristow were the first to reach such an agreement with prosecutors on a misdemeanor charge. Capitol during the Jan.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2023

A federal court in Guam Friday denied a request to reinstate a total abortion ban on the island of Guam. Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood of the District Court of Guam ruled that the original permanent injunction from 1990, which blocked Public Law No. 20-134 , should remain in effect. 20-134 , should remain in effect.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“Supreme Court Weighs Limits of ‘Hot Pursuit’ by Police; The court has said that the police need no warrants to enter the homes of fleeing felons; Does that exception also apply to people suspected of minor crimes?” Supreme Court appears tilted toward allowing some searches without warrants.”

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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.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 1, 2021

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases last week. California , which involves whether police pursuits for misdemeanors justify a warrantless entry, an issue which has divided the lower courts. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two other cases. ” The most-closely watched case is Lange v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A research-based tool, known as the Public Safety Assessment (PSA), was implemented in Bernalillo County in 2017 to help judges gauge the likelihood of a defendant’s success while released pending trial – meaning that a person returns for future court appearances and remains arrest-free while their case is resolved.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The officers were charged with felony cruelty to persons and a misdemeanor charge of second-degree reckless endangerment, according to state police. District Court against the city of New Haven and the five officers involved in transporting him in September. Cox’s lawyers filed a $100 million lawsuit in U.S.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2023

US District Court Judge for the District of Oregon Karin Immergut ruled on Friday that Oregon Ballot Measure 114 (BM 114), which restricts large-capacity magazines (LCMs) and requires permits before purchasing a firearm, is constitutional. Violations of the law are considered a misdemeanor. Police are exempt from the law.

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