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JUNE 23, 2021

.” And Samantha Hawkins of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Hot Pursuit May Still Require Warrant, High Court Rules; The government had argued that police in any kind of a chase don’t need a warrant to enter a house, regardless of whether the crime at issue is a felony or a misdemeanor.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Moerschel is additionally charged with destruction of government property and aiding and abetting. Ulrich and Moerschel are the latest of 18 defendants to be charged in this case.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Under the ACCA, a person who has three violent felony convictions and is then convicted of possessing a firearm faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years. In this case, the court had to decide whether the term “violent felony” includes crimes committed with a reckless state of mind. Borden objected. Ashcroft and Voisine v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

require some type of government-issued license. Last month, The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center launched the Fair Chance Licensing Project , an unprecedented effort to track reforms that reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal and juvenile records across all 50 states. Nicole Jarrett, Ph.D.,

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

From March to May 2020, bookings decreased by 41 percent, with a dramatic decrease in bookings for misdemeanors and lower level felonies. While inmate populations did not decrease, and actually made a gradual increase throughout the rest of the year, figures plateaued in October, and by Dec.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Take Alaska , for example, which the report ranks as the lowest-performing state in terms of nearly every law category analyzed — receiving “F” grades for pardoning, felony relief, misdemeanor relief, certificates of relief, employment, and occupational licensing laws. Washington D.C. in the past 50 years. “We

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 18, 2023

City of Rancho Palos Verdes : A week after granting review in April 2021 , the court limited the issue to: “Can a public entity be held liable under Government Code section 830.8 for failure to warn of an allegedly dangerous design of public property that is subject to Government Code section 830.6 design immunity?” In re F.M. :

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

One of the high points of last year is the fact that lawmakers in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government all collectively enacted 151 legislative bills that took action to restore rights and opportunities to people with an arrest or conviction record. Key Reforms from 2021. not disenfranchising at all).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Raymond Holloway cannot possess firearms because of a misdemeanor conviction for driving under the influence. Lisa Folajtar is barred because of a felony conviction for willfully making a materially false statement on her tax returns. Barr ask whether applications of the ban to nonviolent offenders violate the Second Amendment.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

As we approach the third year of the pandemic, it’s frustrating to only now get the official government data from year one — at this point, it’s more useful as documentation of past decisions than as an indicator of current conditions,” writes Wendy Sawyer, lead writer of the PPI policy brief. 2020: Missing the Mark. Across the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

That creates a dangerously fluid and subjective basis for criminal charge, even a misdemeanor. The most serious charge is the third-degree felony which can lead to up to five years in prison. All persons guilty of an affray shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. Rickey Kanter was convicted of one count of felony mail fraud for defrauding Medicare in connection with therapeutic shoe inserts. That triggered the federal ban.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 27, 2022

Under RLUIPA, the government may not “impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person residing in or confined to an institution,” unless the government proves the restriction is “in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest” and is “the least restrictive means of furthering” that government interest.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 2, 2021

Misdemeanor offenses. Gross misdemeanor offenses. 2b.Other felony offenses. However, in this instance, the University unequivocally disagrees with the ideas expressed about disrupting UMPD’s daily work. Here is the underlying criminal provision: 609.78 EMERGENCY TELEPHONE CALLS AND COMMUNICATIONS. Subdivision 1.Misdemeanor

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In most states, violating the CAP law is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is a slap on the wrist. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? The felony charges filed against the Crumbleys could result in a maximum prison sentence of 15 years on each count of involuntary manslaughter.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The statement could effectively knock out the misdemeanor gun possession count — the one count that could still be in play for the jury after the prosecution’s case on the more serious offense appeared to collapse in court. For example, he pressed Rittenhouse on why he did not just purchase a handgun rather than an AR-15.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

Texas’s law, SB 4, makes it a misdemeanor offense for foreign nationals to enter the state from abroad unless arriving at a “lawful port of entry,” upgrading the offense to a felony for subsequent convictions. This latest extension does not have an expiration date.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Police rejected claims of a racial motive and noted that, over a period of five years, 40 adults were arrested for shoplifting at Gibson’s Bakery, but only six were African American.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” Pugin pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to a felony, while Cordero-Garcia was convicted of dissuading a witness from reporting a crime.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

Division Six concluded an erroneous felony-murder instruction was harmless. The unpublished opinion of the First District, Division One, affirmed the sustaining of a wardship petition for misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th 5th 588), in which no petition for review was filed. See here and here.)

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The JAMA editorial notes that there are few Park cases for two primary reasons: [The government] may lead. First, regardless of Park, under the FDC Act, any individual who commits an FDC Act violation can be held liable for a strict liability misdemeanor, regardless of whether the individual is a responsible corporate officer.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

People walk dangerous routes when the government eliminates or fails to provide legal avenues that are safe, permanent and predictable whether it’s across the street or across an international border. When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S. Decriminalizing jaywalking was a measure of equity.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

922(g) , the federal statute barring people with prior felony convictions from possessing firearms, the government must prove that the defendant knew he was a felon at the time he possessed a firearm. Common sense,” he continued, suggests that most people with felony convictions are aware of their legal status as convicted felons.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“ In a Central Texas county, high schoolers are jailed on felony charges for vaping what could be legal hemp ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2023

During Prelogar’s oral argument, she contended that the government should be able to prohibit possession of firearms by individuals who are not “law-abiding,” which the arguments defined as being convicted of a felony, and also by those who are “dangerous” or “not responsible.”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Pine County’s Probation Department collaborates with experts in the program to work with juveniles that have been charged with misdemeanors and felonies that are not homicides or sex crimes. . Community-based organizations can also help facilitate new programs, as well as social workers and educators, the IIP details.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The First District, Division One, published opinion concluded the defendant could not be relieved from a mandatory lifetime sex offender registration requirement despite his felony conviction for attempting to distribute harmful material to a minor having been reduced to a misdemeanor. Government employment grant-and-hold.

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The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

Moreover, immigration screening, although it takes place in jails, is not accompanied by the same procedural protections as criminal law that is meant to stop government overreach. “It leads to the denial of bail or harsher plea proffers.”.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Police rejected claims of a racial motive and noted that, over a period of five years, 40 adults were arrested for shoplifting at Gibson’s Bakery, but only six were African American.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 7, 2022

have gone below the government recommendation in 49 out of 74 sentencings held for Capitol riot defendants one year after the attack, or about two-thirds of the cases, reports the Washington Post. Of the 49 sentences that have been below the government recommendation, 30 were by Republican-appointed judges. Federal judges in D.C.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The bill also gives the court jurisdiction over misdemeanors, violations of city ordinances and felony preliminary matters. They also argued that the law damaged the appointment power of local elected officials and took away one of the local governments key functions namely enforcement of its own laws.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The planned rally comes as the government continues to investigate people who participated in the Capitol riot — a process that hasn’t been absent of legal challenges. police will be “fully activated” on Sept. 17 and 18, meaning all officers must work those days, according to spokesman Dustin Sternbeck. District Judge Amit P.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Howell challenged the toughness of the Justice Department’s stance in a plea hearing for a Colorado Springs man who admitted to one of four nonviolent misdemeanor counts of picketing in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington on why it was seeking to require only $2,000 in each felony case and $500 in each misdemeanor case.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hong Kong residents in the US are not covered if they voluntarily returned to Hong Kong, have not continuously resided in the US, have been convicted of a felony or two misdemeanors, are subject to extradition, or have otherwise been determined by US officials to be unsafe to remain.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

In New York, unlicensed massage is a class E felony, punishable by up to four years in prison, whereas prostitution is a class B misdemeanor. Laws governing sex work were not written to keep people safe , but to criminalize those pushed to the margins without access to resources. Song died from the impact.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Capitol – and possibly, the former president – under a financial-crimes law that bars obstruction of government proceedings. Miller was charged with assaulting Capitol police, a felony, and disorderly conduct inside the Capitol building, a misdemeanor. The government’s reading of Section 1512(c) was too broad, he insisted.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2024

In the complaint filed with the District Court of Southern Iowa, the groups claim that Iowa has exceeded its power by intruding on areas of law reserved to the federal government. They first argue that the federal government has exclusive power to regulate immigration and that Iowa’s law conflicts with federal immigration statutes.

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