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.
JURIST
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Biden now faces 11 charges in total—three felonies and eight misdemeanors. A California grand jury indicted Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, on Thursday on nine new federal criminal tax charges. The new charges join the two previous charges filed against him in a federal court in Delaware.
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Paralegal Bootcamp
MAY 6, 2022
The bureaus are often divided into divisions, Felony Trial, Special Prosecutions, Sexual Violence / Child Protection, and Investigations. Similarly, a Federal US Attorney’s Office will have both a Criminal and Civil Bureau. In general, the Criminal Bureau will prosecute matters on behalf of the State’s Attorney or US Attorney.
At the Lectern
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Henderson , the Supreme Court today holds that a 2012 initiative did not eliminate superior courts’ discretion to impose concurrent, instead of consecutive, sentences under the “Three Strikes” law for felonies committed on the same occasion or that arose from the same set of operative facts.
Paralegal Bootcamp
JULY 28, 2022
Then, an opportunity came along to work for the County Public Defender’s Office, defending people in misdemeanor, felony, and now the only paralegal in the office on capital cases. At any time during this process, your attorney may have you draft the document(s) or perform some research.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Yet while the draft changed not at all on these points, the dissent makes just one contrary claim, also raised by critics post-leak. Dobbs said early abortions were unlawful in a graver sense: They were treated like felonies under felony-murder doctrine — as the dissent quietly concedes (in footnote 3).
The Crime Report
AUGUST 3, 2021
Individuals charged with a felony or class A misdemeanor can ask for this hearing, unless they are accused of attacking a police officer. Virginia, and Connecticut, a version of a proposal drafted by Cynthia Lee, a law professor at George Washington University, has been adopted. In Washington, D.C.,
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