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The Challenge of Life After Prison

The Crime Report

An author of the recent report that examined all 50 states’ restorative rights laws mirrored Cook’s point. Joy Care Center partners with more than 70 employers and several landlords and real estate agents who accept its clients. She joined about nine years ago after spending a week in the McLean County jail on bond for a felony.

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The Newest Police Crimefighting Tool: Podcasts

The Crime Report

4, 2019, Peter Chadwick, a real estate magnate who fled the country in 2015 after being charged with his wife’s murder, was apprehended in Mexico. Marshal David Singer told reporters, had generated attention from media outlets, armchair detectives and other law enforcement agencies. Illustration by Tony Rice via Flickr.

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Legal Records Storage for Your Firm

MyCase

Legal record management is a vital aspect of any law firm. Though legal record keeping is part of daily practice for law firms, it is often disorganized. On top of that, lawyers risk losing their license if they fail to comply with laws that protect client information contained in records. . Disposing of records.

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With The Onion’s support, satirist asks court to revive lawsuit against police who arrested him

SCOTUSBlog

After obtaining a warrant to investigate the owner of the page, police arrested Novak under an Ohio law that makes it a felony to “disrupt, interrupt, or impair” police operations. 548 to impinge upon the important state interests in securing real estate titles and collecting real property taxes.

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New Jersey Puts ‘Fair Chance Housing’ on the National Agenda

The Crime Report

It is therefore encouraging that states have begun to enact laws limiting record-based disqualifications in housing decisions. Phil Murphy signed into law the Fair Chance in Housing Act , the most rigorous state legislation to date limiting consideration of criminal records in housing decisions. On June 18, New Jersey Gov. Urbana, Il.,

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A Criminologist Assesses the ‘Racketeer-in-Chief’

The Crime Report

The notorious abilities of Capone and these other crime kingpins to corrupt people and neutralize the forces of law pale in comparison to the former president. in the 1940s, the Trump Organization engaged in a variety of non-traditional illegal schemes around the inheritance laws of taxation that in my judgment constitute racketeering.

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Did the Biden Administration Just Give a Boost To the Hunter Biden Defense?

JonathanTurley

Special counsel Robert Mueller targeted various Trump officials with FARA, using the law to investigate, search or charge attorneys from Paul Manafort to Rudy Giuliani to Victoria Toensing. If the Justice Department applied the same approach used in the Paul Manafort case, Biden would be looking at the serious prospect of a felony charge.