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New York Moves to Ease Arrest Disclosure Requirements by Would-Be Lawyers

The Crime Report

New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.

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BLM protester injured by Buffalo police files civil lawsuit

JURIST

New York resident and peace activist Martin Gugino on Monday filed a civil lawsuit against Buffalo, New York, police after being seriously injured by several officers this past summer. The post BLM protester injured by Buffalo police files civil lawsuit appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

We also have a much higher rate of plea bargain cases than the rest of the world: almost 20 percent higher than just about any other common law country. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. DC: The law exists to protect capital.

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Only 15% of NYC Hate Crime Charges End in Conviction

The Crime Report

More than 60 crimes fall under the hate crime statute in New York, from simple menacing to possession of a biological weapon. The state data shows that the more serious felony arrests for hate crimes yielded felony convictions — whether as a hate crime or not — in 19 percent of the cases closed citywide between 2015 and 2020.

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Alvin Bragg and The Art of Not Taking Law Too Seriously

JonathanTurley

After the first week of testimony, the trial of Donald Trump is increasingly looking like a mad prosecution machine by lawyers who don’t take law too seriously. After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. It was so implausible as to be impossible.

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Court Officers Told Jurors Not To Discuss Cases During Deliberations, Says Grand Jury Foreman

The Crime Report

It instructed jurors that they would sit through witness testimony and review evidence by a prosecutor, and then “discuss with each other the evidence and the legal instructions” before voting on whether or not there is probable cause to indict each felony suspect. asked Mark Bederow, a criminal defense lawyer and former Manhattan prosecutor.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

First, let’s look at the law. The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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