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LegalReader
JULY 29, 2021
A felony conviction is not something to be taken lightly. Whether you or someone you know is re-entering society after a felony charge and time served, there is a lot that may be affected.
LegalReader
JUNE 22, 2021
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The Crime Report
APRIL 6, 2022
The penalty for first degree felony murder is life in prison, without possibility of parole. The Massachusetts justices ruled that felony murder will no longer serve as an independent ground for a first-degree murder conviction.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah. The post US Supreme Court declines to hear case regarding jury size in felony trials appeared first on JURIST - News.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 25, 2022
Texas’ trigger law has officially gone into effect, making performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to life in prison and a civil penalty of not less than $100,000, plus attorney fees, with only narrow exceptions to save the life of a pregnant patient, reports the Texas Tribune.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
The majority of Portland, Oregon’s homeless population find themselves unable to escape a life on the streets due to a criminal background they can’t shake off, specifically felony charges, reports Blair Best for KGW8.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 25, 2022
million people, will be barred from voting in 2022 due to state laws banning people with felony convictions from doing so, reports NPR. According to new research from The Sentencing Project, roughly 2 percent of the voting age population in the United States, 4.6
The Crime Report
JULY 26, 2022
Even if they’ve never served time in prison, people who have felony convictions still have difficulty accessing stable housing. Photo via Flickr.
LegalReader
OCTOBER 12, 2022
The distinction between a misdemeanor and a felony depends on the severity of the crime. When it comes to traffic offenses, some are more serious than others. Crimes traffic accidents traffic cameras traffic citations traffic collision traffic fines traffic laws
The Crime Report
AUGUST 6, 2021
A new Texas law taking effect in September, 2021, will make buying sex a state felony instead of a misdemeanor, making the state the first in the country to to charge so-called “Johns” with a state jail felony, reports Click2Houston.
The Crime Report
MAY 9, 2022
An Alabama law that makes it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical treatment to transgender youth has gone into effect after Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bill on April 8, reports Reuters.
JURIST
APRIL 9, 2021
Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill into law Wednesday expanding voting rights for persons with felony convictions. The post Washington state expands voting rights for individuals with felony convictions appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.
EvidenceProf Blog
JULY 16, 2022
The federal confidential marital communications privilege protects against the admission of confidential marital communications between spouses, much like the attorney-client privilege protects against the admission of confidential communications between a client and her attorney.
The Crime Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Nearly 900 protesters were arrested in Minnesota for protesting the pipeline’s construction, the vast majority of arrests taking place during the summer of 2021, with dozens facing felony charges.
The Crime Report
APRIL 21, 2022
Advocates are pushing states to create updated felony standards, arguing that outdated laws, which vary wildly from state to state, are unfairly making felons out of people who committed minor crimes such as stealing a pair of shoes, reports Axios.
Above The Law
OCTOBER 19, 2021
He's facing a felony menacing charge. Courts Colorado Crime Judge of the Day Mark Thompson State Judges
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
The post Proud Boys HI founder pleads guilty to felony charges for Jan 6 riot participation appeared first on JURIST - News. Nicholas Ochs, founder of the Proud Boys Hawaii chapter, Friday pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding under 18 U.S.C.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 10, 2021
Share A fractured Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of a key phrase in the Armed Career Criminal Act, ruling that crimes involving recklessness do not count as “violent felonies” for the purpose of triggering a key sentencing enhancement.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
District Judge David Counts has ruled that a federal law barring people under felony indictment from purchasing guns is unconstitutional, reports the Washington Post. Texas U.S.
ABA Journal
OCTOBER 21, 2021
The chief judge of Colorado’s 5th Judicial District has been charged with felony menacing in an incident allegedly involving an "AR-15 style rifle."
JURIST
JUNE 12, 2021
The US Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that “reckless” crimes qualify as violent felonies for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). The ACCA mandates a 15-year sentence for those persons found guilty of illegally possessing a firearm who have been convicted of three or more violent felonies in the past.
The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
Martin was freed in February after serving time for punching a girlfriend, dragging her from her home by her hair and whipping her with a belt, all nonviolent offenses under California law, which considers only about two dozen crimes to be violent felonies.
At the Lectern
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will file its opinion in People v. Gentile. Briefs here ; oral argument video here.) It will be the first decision in an October calendar case. Opinions in the other three October cases are expected by January 4. All of the cases had a Court of Appeal justice sitting pro tem. In Gentile , the court limited the issues to these: “1. Does the amendment to Penal Code section 188 by recently enacted Senate Bill No.
The Crime Report
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
San Francisco police used DNA collected in a rape exam as part of a domestic violence and sexual abuse case several years ago to link a woman to a felony property crime in the city, possibly violating the state’s Victims’ Bill of Rights as well as constitutional laws related to unreasonable searches and seizures, reports The Guardian.
The Crime Report
JULY 20, 2021
Hodgkins, the first person to have pleaded guilty to a single felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding before Congress by storming the Capitol on Jan. Paul A.
The Crime Report
JULY 9, 2021
A new law in Georgia is tackling the issues of porch piracy and mail theft by classifying certain degrees of the crimes as felonies, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
ABA Journal
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
A California wastewater official faces felony state court charges of diverting public funds for personal use, after allegedly using municipal money to pay for an…
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 17, 2021
Similar to its federal counterpart, OCGA § 24-6-609(a) states the following: For the purpose of attacking the character for truthfulness of a witness: (1) Evidence that a witness other than an accused has been convicted of a crime shall be
The Crime Report
MAY 11, 2021
The bill also makes it a felony crime to threaten to injure a person or the reputation of a person through the distribution of an image, video or other recordings of a person that is sexual in nature.
JURIST
AUGUST 4, 2022
The charges against Sullivan included obstruction of proceedings , misprision of felony (failing to report a felony), and three counts of wire fraud.
Nolo's Blog
AUGUST 27, 2020
The post Attacking Store Workers for Enforcing Rules on Wearing Face Masks: Now a Felony in Illinois appeared first on Nolo. By E.A. Gjelten We’ve all seen the news: irate anti-maskers punching, shoving, or spitting on store employees or bus drivers who were trying to get them to cooperate with rules intended to slow the spread of COVID-19. Of course, it’s already a crime in most states to do anything like this (or to attack anyone else, for that matter).
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
“Supreme Court refuses to consider requiring 12-person juries; The court declined to take up an Arizona fraud case that could have eliminated the use of six- or eight-person juries in felony cases in the six states where they’re allowed”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.
ABA Journal
DECEMBER 18, 2020
A former Michigan state prosecutor will be charged with two counts of felony misconduct in office after allegedly engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a…
The Crime Report
JULY 28, 2021
Ed Buck, a small-time Democratic donor and political activist, was convicted by a federal jury on Tuesday of nine felonies, including providing fatal doses of methamphetamine to two men who died at his West Hollywood apartment 18 months apart, reports the New York Times.
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