The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A new Office of Gun Violence Prevention in California will reduce gun violence by keeping guns away from “dangerous individuals” and promoting research and data collection, the Washington Post reports. People with felony or violent misdemeanor convictions, restraining orders, or serious mental illness are all included on the list.

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2022

Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to outlaw protests outside private residences, making it a second-degree misdemeanor to picket or protest outside a person’s house to “harass or disturb” that person, reports the Washington Post. Supreme Court justices’ homes in the D.C. Florida Gov.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2022

A jury for the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday convicted former Mount Rocky police officer Thomas Robertson on all charges related to the January 6 Capitol attack. In addition, the jury found Robertson guilty of the misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Facebook plug-ins violate the Wiretap Act and whether the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms outside the home or after a conviction for a nonviolent offense. Acknowledging a circuit split, the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

The thousands of misdemeanor cases that some local prosecutors also handle every year — something they are not required by the state to do — are also not calculated into the state formula.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

The new law allows those accused of a crime to ask for an extra court hearing if they believe they acted in self-defense. Individuals charged with a felony or class A misdemeanor can ask for this hearing, unless they are accused of attacking a police officer. In Washington, D.C.,

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Take Alaska , for example, which the report ranks as the lowest-performing state in terms of nearly every law category analyzed — receiving “F” grades for pardoning, felony relief, misdemeanor relief, certificates of relief, employment, and occupational licensing laws. Washington D.C. Margaret Colgate Love is a former U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

They had planned to engage in a lawful transfer of gun ownership when Rittenhouse turned 18, according to the Washington Post. But Racine-based attorney Patrick Cafferty who previously defended Jacob Blake in criminal court said that the legal basis for a self-defense argument “is sort of a moving target. Supreme Court’s Perspective.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

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. . As we make our way through 2022, the CCRC researchers are optimistic about the changes to come. .

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. On Thursday, the court issued its first major ruling on the Second Amendment in over a decade , striking down a New York gun regulation and holding that the right to bear arms extends outside the home. Whitaker v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. In 2009, the New York courts ruled that Metro workers were not legally required to assist a woman being raped at a station. Even though Bigan dared Yania to jump into the hole full of water, the court found that this made no difference.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In most states, violating the CAP law is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is a slap on the wrist. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? The definition of a “child” ranges among states from age 14 and 18. That’s much more than a slap on the wrist. That may be what it takes.”. Cassie Chew.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

The case could present an important court test for this country in resisting the criminalization of speech that we have seen in Europe. Supreme Court weighs the right of schools to punish students for out-of-school speech in Mahanoy Area School District v. The Supreme Court accelerated that trend in its Morse decision.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Here is the column: This past week the American Civil Liberties Union honored the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the one-year anniversary of her death — by rewriting her famous defense of a woman’s right to abortion to remove offensive language. This already is being litigated in some lower courts.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

But a court struck down the practice as a violation of the constitutional freedoms of association and movement, and the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 let that ruling stand. Some defendants also face active court cases for alleged violations. Cincinnati once barred people convicted of drug offenses from its own “exclusion zones.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. 568, 572 (1942), the Court has sharply abridged the application that exception.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Pine County’s Probation Department collaborates with experts in the program to work with juveniles that have been charged with misdemeanors and felonies that are not homicides or sex crimes. . Chad Enright , a prosecuting attorney in Kitsap, Washington, a city with a population of 271,000, uses this method to support victims of crime.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Howell of Washington has questioned why U.S. 6 attack by a pro-Donald Trump mob, reports the Washington Post. Howell challenged the toughness of the Justice Department’s stance in a plea hearing for a Colorado Springs man who admitted to one of four nonviolent misdemeanor counts of picketing in the U.S. District Judge Beryl A.

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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.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. percent of federal criminal cases in 1962, but just over 2 percent in 2015, effectively turning trials into what former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called “a system of pleas, not a system of trials.” justice system.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 29, 2022

6 Capitol breach, while demonstrators during the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh got off more lightly, reports the Washington Post. He criticized U.S. prosecutors for seeking serious jail time for some nonviolent Donald Trump supporters in the Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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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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 history of the Act, and its namesake, remains a blot on our legal system.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

For many weeks, experts on both the left and the right expressed doubts that Bragg could charge Trump with falsifying business records, a misdemeanor with a now-expired two-year statute of limitation. United States, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution compels a change of venue in some cases. In 1878, in Reynolds v.

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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. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law. It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. In the instructions, the court will tell the jurors that payments cannot be campaign contributions if they would have been made anyway regardless of the campaign. They also need to point out other gaps.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies. With additional criminal indictments coming to courts in Georgia, Washington, D.C.,

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. With the Trump impeachment unfolding in Washington, we will awaited similar reports of Thanksgiving dinner conversations that go terribly wrong–after their argument led to patio furniture being flung at each other. __. For example, in Weirum v.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

The most recent spate of United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decisions handed down late last week have left American citizens more divided than ever. ” Despite this, the average US citizen has generally seen the Court as an independent and reliable arbiter. The Supreme Court of the United States is certainly not new to scandal.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

What is particularly chilling is that the establishment in Washington is not even trying to rebut the widespread view of a two-tiered system of justice. That’s right, Hunter is actually commendable for, after over five years, pleading to two misdemeanors with no likely jail time. It takes a true Biden to do that. Not a Navy, of course.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant. Merchan has allowed the government to bring back into life a dead misdemeanor and convert it into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.” The Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2023

this would more likely constitute a criminal misdemeanor. In Bowman’s case, the criminal act is captured on videotape, but it is also likely a misdemeanor. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. It could be a crime.

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