JURIST
JANUARY 12, 2024
The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse. 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.
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. We’ll know more soon.
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Returning Relists.
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
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.
JURIST
JUNE 24, 2023
” The states of Texas and Louisiana originally filed their lawsuit against the federal government in 2021, saying: The Biden Administration is refusing to take custody of criminal aliens despite federal statutes requiring it to do so. Such aliens belong in federal custody, as Congress required.
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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