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Amnesty International urges Greece authorities to drop charges against migrant rescuers

JURIST

Director Nils Muižnieks issued his statement after Greece’s Court of Appeal of Mytilene dropped some of the misdemeanor charges previously laid against the volunteers. The statute of limitations for the remaining misdemeanor charges against the two will expire in February. All we want is justice.

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US DOJ sues Texas over state law criminalizing illegal entry from abroad

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The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It avers that the law “unconstitutionally intrudes on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens and therefore is field preempted.”

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No sentencing enhancements for recklessness convictions under federal Armed Career Criminal Act

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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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Locked and Loaded: Third Circuit Declares Federal Gun Law Unconstitutional Over Ex-Felon Rights

JonathanTurley

However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. It also is an appeal that would be made by the United States over the invalidation of a federal statute. That triggered the federal ban.

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Beards and Brady (i.e., religious freedom and criminal procedure)

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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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Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful?

JonathanTurley

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. It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute. I have a legal education.”

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Court expands government’s ability to deport noncitizens for offenses related to obstruction of justice

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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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