The Crime Report

MARCH 4, 2022

Millions of people in the United States with felony convictions are eligible to vote —despite their criminal record. A mail-based registration system can change this, according to a recent pilot project in North Carolina. But they rarely do. What About Non-Felons?

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2022

The jury found Robertson guilty of five felonies: obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds while carrying a dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building while carrying a dangerous weapon and tampering with a document or proceedings.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 3, 2021

In 2019, New York State completed a phase-in that raised the age at which teenagers can be charged as adults for misdemeanors and most felonies from 16 to 18 years old. Of those that do, only North Carolina, at age 6, has a lower minimum than New York. More than half of American states have no minimum age at all.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, PETA’s First Amendment challenge to a North Carolina law that imposes monetary damages on undercover workplace recording. The law at issue was enacted in response to a dispute between Food Lion and ABC News in North Carolina in the late 1990s.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, in Illinois, North Carolina and Texas, licensure boards are prohibited from considering arrests that failed to result in a conviction. States have implemented a variety of fair chance licensing reforms in recent years.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

RGIS employees “were also implicated in stealing narcotics” from pharmacies in Kentucky, North Carolina and Louisiana and WIS employees “were implicated” in thefts from three Texas pharmacies. Not only was that employee caught diverting a schedule II opioid, they were given further opportunities to steal from pharmacies.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

We previously discussed how prosecutors in North Carolina, Georgia, Oregon, and other states have dismissed or downgraded many rioting cases, including cases of individuals who destroyed statues in broad daylight. The seven defendants were charged with felony counts of damaging property worth over $1,000.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Two decades later, Wilson’s felony record continues to block her lifelong dream of becoming a nurse in Texas—a state that denies licensure to people convicted of specific crimes, including drug offenses. Nobody told her that Petty would be working both sides of the bench in her case.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The injuries in Clendening were not the sort of combat-related or even job-related injuries one would expect: petitioner Carol Clendening seeks to recover for her late husband’s exposure to toxic drinking water while serving as a judge advocate general officer at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. 28 and Oct. 7 conferences). Khorrami v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Roman is facing felony charges of reckless discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon as well as child endangerment and violating probation. Likewise, the University of North Carolina recently offered an academic chair in Journalism to New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Since 1986, bankruptcy cases in Alabama or North Carolina have been administered by trustees appointed by the judicial branch, while all other cases have been administered by the U.S. But the Alabama and North Carolina trustees had charged much less than fees charged in other states, with the deficit coming out of the judiciary budget.

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The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. Jailhouse screening” was supposed to speed up immigration processes and identify undocumented immigrants who posed a threat to public safety.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday blocked a lower court order that would restore voting rights to more than 55,000 North Carolinians on parole or probation for a felony. ” Moore said, “although this fight is far from over, [he is] confident that the Constitution will prevail in the end.”

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The North Carolina and Massachusetts Experiments. In 442 of the 559 felony cases reviewed in the study, there was just one plea before the offer was accepted. Working with prosecutors in Durham, NC and Berkshire, MA, they created what they called a “plea tracker dashboard” that has added transparency to court proceedings.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This story was republished from NC Newsline , a nonpartisan nonprofit news organization in North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a ruling Tuesday that a man should not lose his parental rights because of strict parole conditions imposed by another state. Read the original story here.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

Also, in December, a district court sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In December, two individuals from Florida and Washington were sentenced for assaulting law enforcement. .

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

In a study linking business ownership information with information from a background check and consumer data company, RAND also analyzed data from the states of Minnesota and North Carolina for a deeper analysis of the Paycheck Payment Protection Program created last March to aid small businesses affected by the pandemic.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The survey covered prosecutors from a diverse group of jurisdictions, including large cities like Chicago and Boston as well as smaller or rural markets in North Carolina and Texas. Among the “case studies” highlighted was the record of Satana DeBerry , the District Attorney for Durham County in North Carolina.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

This has remained an open question and much contested in the United States as I noted in my later North Carolina article. Jonathan Turley, The “Executive Function” Theory, the Hamilton Affair and Other Constitutional Mythologies, 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791-1866 (1999).

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