The Crime Report

JULY 6, 2022

A study by researchers from the University of Michigan found that at least four in 10 children in the U.S. Some 9 percent of children have had an intergenerational exposure to prison, 18 percent have been exposed to felony conviction and 39 percent in total have been exposed to any criminal charge over the course of childhood.

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

In Michigan, where 4,000 people are serving life without parole, the indigent defense commission adopted new standards that would require lawyers who handle such cases to have at least five years of significant experience, including at least seven felony jury trials.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 14, 2022

associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, about her research on the impact of the criminal justice system on marginalized groups. The Conversation U.S. Her work emphasizes the needs of defendants in the criminal justice system, who she refers to as justice-involved people.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Michigan college student is unable to proceed with a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) lawsuit against two federal officers who tackled him after mistaking him for a fugitive in 2014. He also sued the officers individually under a Bivens action, claiming four violations of his Fourth Amendment rights.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2000, a 6-year-old boy fatally shot his 6-year-old classmate, Kayla Rolland , in their classroom at Buell Elementary School in Michigan while their teacher lined up other students in the hallway. In Virginia, the minimum age to charge someone with a felony is 14 years old. The shooting followed a dispute on the playground.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? Michigan, where 35 percent of households own a firearm , doesn’t have a child access prevention law on its books. 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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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

30 shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan, which left four teenagers dead. Michigan legislators are set to discuss a bill that would impose a maximum penalty of five years in prison on a gun owner in the state when a minor gains access to an unsecured weapon and someone is injured or killed. “If Slotkin said. Messaging vs Law.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

As stresses and challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic continue to pile on, a significant shortage of licensed mental health professionals in Michigan is complicating efforts to help victims of domestic abuse and other violent crimes, reports the Oakland (MI) Press. Based on data provided by the FBI, the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. This despite the fact that we know myriad innocent people charged with felonies plead guilty.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

After Ingham County, Michigan Prosecutor Carol Siemon announced that she would not prosecute non-public safety stops nor pursue Michigan’s racially disparate “felony firearm” charges that simply pile on unnecessary statutory enhancements, she was viciously attacked by law enforcement leaders, some of whom even called for her resignation.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked the Michigan Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council, a state agency, to appoint a special prosecutor to consider charges against nine people in connection with an effort to gain access to voting machines after the 2020 election, reports the Associated Press.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A new Michigan bill would consider parents giving care-providing trans treatment to their children as child abuse, applying to anyone who “knowingly or intentionally consents to, obtains, or assists with a gender transition procedure for a child.” Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

a Michigan-based indirect subsidiary, on the ground that a private arbitration counts as a “foreign or international tribunal” for Section 1782. The contract provided for resolution by the rules of the German Institution of Arbitration. Following precedent in the U.S. These and other petitions of the week are below: Rojas v. United States.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Michigan House Democrats. Michigan state Rep. Jewell Jones is facing an array of criminal charges , including two new serious felonies after he was found in possession of a handcuff key after he was arrested. The weapons charge is a four-year felony while the escape attempt is punishable by up to five years in prison.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For felony charges, the Salem News details that petitioners have to wait at least seven years, misdemeanors mean waiting three years. The Crime Report detailed earlier this year that a University of Michigan study found that most people eligible for expungement don’t apply for it — only 6.5

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2022

While a minority of legal pundits might still argue that there may not be enough evidence to prosecute Trump for seditious conspiracy, there can no longer be any doubt about Trump’s culpability for the criminal felonies of obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and witness tampering.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The civil lawsuit accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship by testifying as a key witness before a Manhattan grand jury, revealing “confidences” and “spreading falsehoods” which resulted in Trump being charged on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

The new law upped the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony, and from a maximum of one year in jail to a maximum of five years in prison. As we know, Trump has been violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as amended and signed into law by himself in 2018. Either way, a criminal indictment is coming sooner than any of us thought.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

Senate Bill S211 would seal conviction records automatically after three years of a completed sentence for misdemeanors and seven years for felonies. Similar legislation earned bipartisan support and passed in Utah, Connecticut, California and Michigan. People convicted of sex crimes are excluded from the bill. million New Yorkers.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes. And, ultimately, not the American people.”

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The Crime Report

MARCH 31, 2023

We do know from reading the New York Times that the indictment contains 34 separate charges or “counts” including multiple felonies, which likely will involve some kind of tax violation or federal campaign crimes. This indictment has been a long time coming. It is un-American.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

is an Emeritus Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University, and the co-founder and North American Editor of the Sage Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime. Several weeks after losing the 2020 election, on Jan.6, Gregg Barak, Ph.D.,

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JURIST

DECEMBER 7, 2023

All six were charged with two felony counts for Offering a False Instrument for Filing and Uttering a Forged Instrument. Nevada marks the third state to pursue criminal action against false electors for their role in the 2020 election scandal, following Michigan and Georgia.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2022

In an unanimous 6-0 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court held that her office committed a fatal and inexplicable error in prosecuting nine officials for the Flint water crisis, including former Gov. It can go up to 10 yeas for felonies like manslaughter, which were the charges brought against two defendants. Rick Snyder.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2023

Should he be charged with contempt and/or convicted on one or more of the 34 felony charges, you can bet that Trump will appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court. And on the eve before this hearing, E.

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JURIST

AUGUST 3, 2023

Former Republican State Representative Daire Rendon and former Trump-backed attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno were charged Tuesday over efforts to access and tamper with voting machines in Michigan following the 2020 US presidential election. Michigan is not the only state to investigate suspected election interference.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

Carter wrote that it was “more likely than not” that the former president engaged in multiple felonies while attempting on January 6, 2021, to illegally obstruct Congress as part of a criminal conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election. In his 44-page opinion, Judge David O. Gregg Barak, Ph.D. ,

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Washington said Karl Dresch of Calumet, Michigan, was sentenced to six months in prison because of his actions, not his political views, and that others who joined the attack on Congress as it met to confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election could face prison time, reports the Washington Post.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Now, the Michigan Attorney General and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Donald Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. Similar campaigns have targeted election officials who object to counting irregularities.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” That included what Tribe suggested was a clear case of attempted murder of former Vice President Pence.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 30, 2023

Then again, there is plenty of evidence in Trump’s political experiences from the four criminal indictments and the combined 91 felony charges that support Trump’s narrative on lawlessness. For example, who else but Donald Trump would brag about how he could shoot someone on 5 th Avenue without suffering any negative consequences?

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While these political vs. legal interpretations of reality capture the moment in the ongoing saga of Donald Trump, I do not believe that the label of victim is “baked in” nor that his narrative of victimhood will be the prevailing one.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

With the evidence already revealed by the hearings, the AG has no other choice than to prosecute Trump and his allies for a range of assorted felonies. Gregg Barak , Ph.D. ,

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

6 that the U.S. would not suddenly attack China.”

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