The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2023

The Texas “ law of parties ” allow prosecutors to seek and secure the execution of individuals involved in what is more generally known as “felony murder” crimes—offenses that involve more than one person, all of whom can be prosecuted as equal participants even though one or more of the participants may have had no direct involvement in the murder.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

million settlement with families of those injured and killed in the 2017 mass shooting at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. This conviction should have disqualified Kelley from purchasing a firearm out-of-state under federal law. to victims of 2017 Texas mass shooting in settlement appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

Additionally, the individual must leave the state within 72 hours following conviction or release from custody, with subsequent offenses classified as felonies, punishable by up to two years in prison, a fine of up to $1,000 or both. Proponents of the bill argue that it is essential to uphold the rule of law and protect state borders.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 21, 2022

Advocates are pushing states to create updated felony standards, arguing that outdated laws, which vary wildly from state to state, are unfairly making felons out of people who committed minor crimes such as stealing a pair of shoes, reports Axios.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The protestors were charged under a new and highly controversial anti-protest law that activists say was designed specifically to target environmentalist protestors. The protestors faced up to two years in prison under the law and fines of up to $500,000.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Now-retired prosecutor Ralph Petty earned a living at the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in West Texas. He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. Overall, Petty simultaneously served as a prosecutor and law clerk at least 300 times. Photo by Clyde Robinson via Flickr.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2022

The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted Tuesday to enact a law that makes it a felony to perform or attempt to perform an abortion, except to save the life of the pregnant woman in a medical emergency. 8 in Texas in September 2021. Jackson , many states have enacted copy-cat or otherwise restrictive abortion laws.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The ordinance passed 7-0 and requires businesses to follow federal laws like 18 U.S.C § 1461, which bans mailing any item that can “be used or applied for producing abortion.” ” Generally, this provision is considered an unenforceable part of federal law, but Hobbs is not alone trying to ban abortion through section 1461.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In addition, she says over 500 individuals had open felony cases upon arrest. Under pressure from police and law-and-order legislators, New York’s bail reform laws have already been amended. A r ecent study of bail reforms in Harris County, Texas suggested that recidivism dropped since the reforms were enacted.

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JURIST

APRIL 28, 2022

SB 612 made abortion and any attempt at an abortion a felony with punishments including fines and jail time. Unlike Texas’ 6-week abortion ban and Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban, the new Oklahoma law SB1503 implements a near-total ban, with only medical emergency exceptions.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

On the same day, one man was sentenced to ten years in prison and a second pled guilty to felony charges. Kellye Sorelle, a Texas attorney, is charged with conspiracy to obstruct Congress’s certification of the Electoral College votes, and obstruction of Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Starr County, Texas district attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez, has dismissed the murder charge levied against Lizelle Herrera for having a “self-induced abortion,” saying that it was clear that she did not commit a criminal act under state law, reports the New York Times.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Crumbley will be sentenced at a later date but faces up to 15 years in prison under Michigan law. In January, t he US Department of Justice issued a report detailing failures in law enforcement’s response to a May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. School shootings continue to be a problem in the US.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Texas spits in the face of Roe again by making medical abortions after 7 weeks a felony. [ The Texas Tribune ]. appeared first on Above the Law. This is totally normal. Definitely not something you do before civil conflict. The post Morning Docket: 12.03.21

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. Wade decision that recognized an individual’s right to an abortion, states across the country have been initiating new laws to regulate access to reproductive health care.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2022

Kevin Stitt has signed a bill that makes performing an abortion in the state a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine, reports the Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Carla Laroche. Black women are leading the fight to secure and safeguard voting rights in the U.S. Plenty of U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 29, 2021

The latest such case involves the arrest of two teenage girls in Texas after they removed a gold necklace off the chest of a dead man found in a drainage ditch. The state law states that a theft is a felony if: (A)?the We often discuss novel criminal charges or cases. The charge is “theft from a human corpse.”

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Do state laws permitting individuals to carry concealed weapons undermine federal legislation banning weapons in the vicinity of schools? Resolving the contradiction will require an amendment, according to a paper in the Texas Tech Law Review. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely extended a stay blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later stayed that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 4, 2022

Millions of people in the United States with felony convictions are eligible to vote —despite their criminal record. In other words, the researchers write, “we interpret this to mean that the effectiveness of our intervention is unique to people with felony convictions.”. But they rarely do. What About Non-Felons?

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. In 2005, 22 American states, including Texas, permitted executions of juveniles. In fact, Texas by far led the nation in killing juveniles with 13 juvenile executions.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Since the Supreme Court struck down New York’s longstanding gun law, lower courts have ruled heavily against restricting guns, reports Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal. . Bruen, held that New York’s law requirement of a license to carry concealed weapons in public places was unconstitutional. .”

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

s life on March 24, 2023, in an adult Texas prison facility speaks volumes about the ineptitude of the nation’s penal system and the conservative ideological politics of its judicial system in dealing with juvenile offenders. That earned him five additional years in the Texas adult penal system. That may be. Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. Returning Relists 74 Pinehurst LLC v. Maryland and Napue v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

in 2018, but Florida law requires that a jury determine a sentence of either death or life in prison for capital felonies, the Associated Press reports. Patrick Crusius, the suspect in the mass shooting that killed 23 at an El Paso, Texas shooting in 2019, is still awaiting trial.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Penalties can be stiff: knowingly making a false statement on the document, for instance, is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and fines. Meanwhile, critics note that, while alcohol has a documented role in fueling aggressive behavior, heavy drinkers are not barred from buying firearms under federal law.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2021

Warren borrowed the car from a Wolfforth, Texas dealer in the summer of 2019 before allegedly he driving the vehicle over to the bank and handing over a fast-food bad and a note reading “This is a f—— robbery. b) An offense under this section is a felony of the first degree. (c) Play with me and die. AGGRAVATED ROBBERY. (a)

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

In Texas, there’s a continuing dispute over whether the standards for death penalty defense apply if prosecutors seek life without parole instead. Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Representatives of four sellers of body armor said they saw some rise in sales following recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., According to sellers, people convicted of a violent felony are banned from buying body armor, but regulatory enforcement of that law is lax. reports NPR. are few and far between.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Ross , involving a dormant commerce clause challenge to a California law prohibiting the sale of pork unless the pigs from which it was made (virtually all of which come from outside the state) were raised consistent with the state’s restrictive standards. Case in point: Texas v. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Supreme Court recently agreed to consider a case that is expected to define the scope of federal identity theft law. David Dubin was the managing partner of PARTS, a psychology practice in Texas. The post Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Facts of the Case.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

I figured I could come up with a decent law and hopefully the federal government might work to make it national.”. That law brings the total number of states with some form of a gun storage law to eleven. Gun Safety pledge offered at Austin Texas program. 268,942 Guns Missing in Texas.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even worse, those laws exacerbate labor shortages by taking willing workers out of the job market who could fill essential jobs in critical fields. During the 2021 legislative session, 10 legislatures made significant progress in adopting laws that expand licensing opportunities for people with criminal histories.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2024

The US Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to permit federal border patrol agents to cut the razor wire that Texas installed on the US-Mexico border. The Biden administration requested the decision to allow federal agents to access the border without facing tort claims from Texas.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

There have been more than 250 new laws passed in that 18-month period alone — amazing state efforts to roll back the malign effects of the 30-year crime war,” the CCRC details. On a more broad spectrum, a pardon may be necessary to enable anyone to run for elected office, or simply secure a professional or business license.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a statement asserting Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense on Wednesday as tensions with the Biden administration over security along the US southern border escalated. Texas intensified its border security measures with the launch of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star in March 2021.

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