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DOJ continues pursuing January 6 cases

JURIST

On the same day, one man was sentenced to ten years in prison and a second pled guilty to felony charges. Kellye Sorelle, a Texas attorney, is charged with conspiracy to obstruct Congress’s certification of the Electoral College votes, and obstruction of Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote.

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How the ‘Disenfranchisement Maze’ Bars Black Women from the Ballot

The Crime Report

Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Carla Laroche. Black women are leading the fight to secure and safeguard voting rights in the U.S. Plenty of U.S.

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Texas Teenagers Charged After Discovering Suicide Victim, Stealing Jewelry, and Then Posting Images on Social Media

JonathanTurley

We often discuss novel criminal charges or cases. The latest such case involves the arrest of two teenage girls in Texas after they removed a gold necklace off the chest of a dead man found in a drainage ditch. The state law states that a theft is a felony if: (A)?the The charge is “theft from a human corpse.”

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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

In Texas, there’s a continuing dispute over whether the standards for death penalty defense apply if prosecutors seek life without parole instead. Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. Other states have minimal standards.

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Texas Man Takes BMW Loaner To Bank Robbery Then Returns To The Dealer And Tries To Buy It With The Stolen Money

JonathanTurley

Warren borrowed the car from a Wolfforth, Texas dealer in the summer of 2019 before allegedly he driving the vehicle over to the bank and handing over a fast-food bad and a note reading “This is a f—— robbery. b) An offense under this section is a felony of the first degree. (c) Play with me and die. AGGRAVATED ROBBERY. (a)

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Key Witness In Chauvin Trial To Invoke The Fifth Amendment And Refuse To Testify

JonathanTurley

He was tracked down in Texas and arrested due to outstanding warrants for felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault, and felony drug possession. The police also previously stated that Hall gave a false name to officers after Floyd’s death and then left Minneapolis.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminal law.