The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In 2018, Flor­idi­ans approved the Voting Restor­a­tion Amend­ment, known as Amend­ment 4, which aimed to restore voting rights to most state resid­ents with past felony convic­tions who have completed their sentences. Any law that requires people to pay to vote is funda­ment­ally anti­demo­cratic.

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The Crime Report

JULY 29, 2022

A new database in Florida shows some officers who have been disciplined, and those who can’t be on the force anymore, NBC 6 reports. The database on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s website includes the records of officers who been disciplined by the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission (CJSTC) since Jan.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby faces two counts of perjury for issuing two requests through the CARES Act in 2020 to withdraw about $90,000 from her city retirement account, claiming that the pandemic had caused her financial difficulties, and two counts of making false statements on a loan application for two vacation homes in Florida, using the (..)

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A man in Tampa Bay, Florida allegedly ambushed two local police officers responding to a call made by his mother who claimed that he was acting violently at their home and that she feared for her safety, Jon Haworth reports for ABC News. Two other deputies who were on site then Tasered Bouzy after he exited his car and took him into custody.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 14, 2022

Florida law provides that anyone suspected of a forcible felony, such as aggravated assault, can be prosecuted—no matter what their age is. But the law…

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2023

Under this bill, performing an abortion in the state is a Class C felony, which can result in a maximum five-year prison sentence if convicted. ” In March, the North Dakota Supreme Court blocked the state’s trigger abortion ban that went into effect after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. .”

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2021

Of the 5,673 felony cases filed in Miami-Dade County between 1990 and 2009, 60 percent of these defendants were released pretrial. Percent of felony defendants released on bail who were rearrested pretrial. Figure 2 below graphically depicts the percent of felony defendants rearrested pretrial by their felony conviction record.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

The individuals include Florida man Mitchell Todd Gardner II, Troy Sargent of Massachusetts, and Nathaniel DeGrave of Nevada. . Sargent pleaded guilty to “felony charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and civil disorder, as well as four related misdemeanor offenses,” according to the DOJ.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

Watts had initially been charged with felony abuse of a corpse in October after Warren County police found the remains of her pregnancy in her toilet and trash. In Florida, an amendment to enshrine abortion protections in the state’s constitution will appear on the state’s 2024 ballot.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Edward Druzolowski, 78, is facing a second-degree murder charge in Florida after gunning down his neighbor over a tree cutting dispute. Florida is a Castle Doctrine state as well as a Stand Your Ground state. What unfolded led not only to murder charges, but may lead to a controversial defense.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

The survivors and families of the victims joined in a lawsuit against the US government, alleging negligence under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act due to the government’s failure to prevent Kelley from purchasing a firearm despite his prior felony convictions. The post US Justice Department to give $144.5M

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In a Boston University Law Review article, Laroche argues that such felony disenfranchisement is tantamount to voter suppression — and, as Black women continue to face more barriers to electoral participation, demands urgent dismantling. . Black women are described as the ‘unsung heroes’ of the right to vote,” Laroche writes. Plenty of U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

So-called “second chance laws” involving felony charges often take longer to clear than misdemeanors. In addition, as part of the law, former offenders don’t have to check yes when asked if they’ve committed a felony, which often works as a barrier for formerly incarcerated people.

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The Crime Report

JULY 30, 2021

But diversion programs, like most facets of the criminal legal system, are racially asymmetrical: white defendants are generally more likely to benefit from diversion programs than people of color, according to a study conducted by experts from Florida International University (FIU), Loyola University Chicago , and the Safety and Justice Challenge.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In “ A Statewide Analysis of the Impact of Restitution and Fees on Juvenile Recidivism in Florida Across Race & Ethnicity, ” researchers found that fees and restitution assessed against young people actually increased juvenile recidivism in Florida. for Hispanic youth and $426.50 for white youth.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2023

Peterson has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts against him, which include felony child neglect and culpable negligence. The prosecution presented Peterson as an officer who, despite his active shooter training, failed to respond accordingly to the scene.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

in 2018, but Florida law requires that a jury determine a sentence of either death or life in prison for capital felonies, the Associated Press reports. Nikolas Cruz, now 23, has already pled guilty to killing 17 people at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fl., Most mass shooters do not live to go to trial.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 14, 2021

What was striking however was the charge with practicing medicine without a license (which was later elevated to a second-degree felony because of the patient’s disfigurement). Thus, if you hold yourself out as a doctor, you are subject to the standard of a reasonable doctor. She was charged with “resisting arrest without violence.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. Florida and Moore v. rescheduled before the Dec.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

David Moerschel, 43, of Tampa, Florida, and Brian Ulrich, 43, of Guyton, Georgia, are similarly charged with federal offenses that include conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting, and entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

One of those four involves an issue on which the court already is considering 11 other relisted cases: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments require the use of a 12-person jury to try defendants accused of felonies, rather than the six-person jury Florida affords for many such offenses. Florida and Moore v. 12 and Apr.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Other states, such as Colorado, Florida and New Hampshire, prohibit the consideration of misdemeanors and lower-level, nonviolent felonies in licensure determinations, realizing that these offenses do not portend whether licensure will pose a risk to the public.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

For example, in 20 states, — including California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Wyoming — a pardon offers the only way to regain firearms rights lost because of a past conviction. Put simply, a pardon is a powerful sign of “official forgiveness,” that can help someone get their life back on track. “But

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JURIST

MARCH 14, 2023

The Florida Senate Committee on Health Policy voted 8 –3 Monday to advance a bill that would largely criminalize and further restrict the provision of sex-reassignment hormones and procedures to minors. A supportive parent could lose custody of their child and face felony prosecution for seeking life-saving care.”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

In Virginia, the minimum age to charge someone with a felony is 14 years old. student in Criminal Justice and Creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database at the University of Central Florida. Do schools need to start searching first graders? Despite the attention that they generated, school shootings at any age are relatively rare.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Texas, however, has a sordid history of fast-tracking juveniles from juvenile court to adult courts for capital offenses, some drug offenses and certain felonies if the offenders, particularly those of color, have extended criminal histories and are charged with a serious violent offense.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2021

She was charged with felony battery of a law-enforcement officer. The police department initially sought to fire Rodriguez but the South Florida Police Benevolent Association successfully opposed the termination. Under Florida law , this would seem an open-and-shut case of battery: 784.03? Battery; felony battery. —. (1)(a)?

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Florida , which held that juvenile offenders could not be sentenced to life without parole for non-homicide offenses; that such a punishment was disproportionate to the convicted offenses in violation of the 8 th Amendment. Five years after Roper , the Supreme Court handed down another juvenile justice decision, Graham v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019. According to data released by the New York Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, 19.5

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

The most serious charge is the third-degree felony which can lead to up to five years in prison. All persons guilty of a riot, or of inciting or encouraging a riot, shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. Resisting officer without violence to his or her person. 775.082 or s. 775.082 or s.

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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. 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.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

The Georgia House responded by passing a bill providing that anyone seeking to enforce Chisholm would be “guilty of a felony and shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy, by being hanged.”). In both Alden and the 1996 case, Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Chisholm was, not surprisingly, unpopular with the states.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

Florida Gov. There is no evidence that election crimes are a serious problem in Florida or in any state in the country. Critics called the announcement a publicity stunt that says less about the prevalence of voter fraud than it does about flaws in the state’s election security apparatus.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Tyrance McCall, a Florida resident, filed suit in Georgia against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Ohio, after a 2016 accident in Florida resulted from the alleged failure of a tire that Cooper manufactured in Arkansas.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Louis Clements is a Florida resident and registered sex offender. The failure to comply with these requirements is a felony under Florida law. Florida , Clements asks the justices to grant review and reverse the 11th Circuit’s ruling. Florida 23-107 Issue : Whether a person is “in custody” within the meaning of 28 U.S.C.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Roman is facing felony charges of reckless discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon as well as child endangerment and violating probation. This incident occurred around 3 a.m., when two Chicago police officers confronted the 13-year-old and Roman while investigating gunshots in Little Village. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

That brings us to our next issue, raised by a large group of Florida criminal cases that the court has had kicking around since November. All raise the same question: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when a criminal defendant is charged with a felony. Bouarfa sued.

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