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The Crime Report
OCTOBER 5, 2021
As states slowly started to legalize and decriminalize certain drugs, authorities have moved to less punitive approaches to address the social costs of addiction. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions. How Should We Regulate ‘Dangerous Products’?
The Crime Report
MAY 20, 2021
Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial. Other states have minimal standards.
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The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
TCR: The first part of your book focuses on the roots of the current legal system in English Common. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. Plea bargaining coincided with overt classism in the legal system.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 27, 2023
” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”
JonathanTurley
APRIL 29, 2024
I have long been a critic of the Bragg indictment as legally incomprehensible. It was not until the second week of proceedings that Bragg even revealed part of his theory of criminality. After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 24, 2021
On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. But, around the same time, American legal reformers started looking between states for inspiration, which helped the U.S.
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