The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In a Boston University Law Review article, Laroche argues that such felony disenfranchisement is tantamount to voter suppression — and, as Black women continue to face more barriers to electoral participation, demands urgent dismantling. . Black women are described as the ‘unsung heroes’ of the right to vote,” Laroche writes. Plenty of U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

Alex Friedmann, advocate and former managing editor of Prison Legal News , has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his 2020 break-in at the Downtown Detention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, the Nashville Tennessean reports. Friedmann pleaded guilty to federal charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Mark Ward has ordered a new trial for Pamela Moses, a woman who was sentenced to 6 years in prison for trying to register to vote while still on probation for a 2015 felony, a fact that she claims ignorance of due to a probation officer signing a certificate indicating that her probation had expired and that she was eligible, reports The Guardian.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 22, 2022

The case of Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught, who faces criminal charges of reckless homicide and felony abuse of an impaired adult for the killing of 75-year-old Charlene Murphey after she accidentally administered the wrong drug to her.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The videotape does appear to satisfy the standard for the use of lethal force under Tennessee v. ” That language is derived from Tennessee v. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Garner and other case law. Police told local media that, at 4:32 p.m., Garner , 471 U.S. ” T ennessee v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

The FCC announced that one of its Administrative Law Judges will hold a hearing to determine if a Tennessee AM station’s license should be revoked after the sole principal of the licensee, a former state senator, was convicted in 2016 of fraud for making false statements in his federal tax return.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Tennessee , an original case in which Mississippi claims that Tennessee is, through an unnatural amount of well-pumping on its side of the border, stealing groundwater from the Mississippi side of the border. Eight justices were present, with Justice Kavanaugh, who recently tested positive for the virus, attending remotely.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee are among states where “reckless provision” of a firearm to a minor can lead to criminal charges. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? The definition of a “child” ranges among states from age 14 and 18. That’s much more than a slap on the wrist.

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

In Tennessee, the governor convened the state’s Criminal Justice Investment Task Force to develop policies aimed at reducing recidivism and improving public safety. Kentucky has also taken major strides towards de-felonization , introducing two new laws to reduce the number of people convicted of felonies.

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LegalReader

APRIL 25, 2022

The housing bubble may be great for some investors, but it brings precarity for families while rent increases push low-income earners out on the street.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Conviction under the act is a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $15,000.00. In September, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit allowed Tennessee and Kentucky to enforce bans on gender-affirming care for minors.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Tennessee , from the original docket , a long-running case between the two states over groundwater in the Middle Claiborne Aquifer. Well, counsel, you seem to complain about Tennessee pumping water from Mississippi, but you admit that Tennessee does not enter across the border into Mississippi, isn’t that correct?”

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A new analysis by The Sentencing Project has found that Tennessee disenfranchises 21 percent of its Black residents and just over 8 percent of its Latino population, in both cases more than any other state, reports Bianca Fortis for ProPublica. Overall, about 470,000 residents of Tennessee are barred from voting.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. 2, on your Tennessee Carpet.” Another pending case is Novak v. City of Parma, in which Anthony Novak was prosecuted for posting a parody of the website of his local police department.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

He was charged (and later acquitted) of a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. 2, on your Tennessee Carpet.” The Onion filed a brilliant parody brief to support the parody claim.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

There is a troubling case in Tennessee this week where Pamela Moses has been given six years and one day in prison for illegally registering to vote last November. She has an extensive record of felony convictions. It is an exceptionally severe sentence, particularly due to the mitigating circumstances in the case.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In one case, Tennessee republicans proposed bills that would have required 1 in 5 investigators in the state’s Criminal Investigation Division become ‘election crime specialists.’ Since 2020, Reveal identified at least 130 bills introduced in state legislatures introducing or increasing law enforcement involvement in voting and elections.

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OilandGasLawyer

JULY 7, 2022

In three trials in 1935 and 1936, three all-white juries convicted members of the gang of felony crimes against African American victims, based exclusively on the testimony of black victims and witnesses and the Rangers’ investigations. He served as Texas’ Attorney General 1931-34 and Governor 1934-39.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The most troubling would ban all necessary gender-affirming health care for young people, in some cases threatening to remove trans children from gender-affirming homes or, as in a proposed Tennessee bill, charge supportive parents of trans kids and their health care providers with child abuse.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 13, 2022

For example, in Tennessee, a law enacted by the Republican legislature that goes into effect July 1 makes it a felony, punishable by up to six years in prison and the loss of one’s voting rights, for homeless people to camp in parks and on other public property. On a single night in 2021, more than 326,000 people. The state’s Gov.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

Channeling Tennessee Williams in his play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Judge Scott McAfee wrote that, after their testimony, there remained “an odor of mendacity.” This came after the Justice Department had allowed the statute of limitations to run out on major felonies and scuttled efforts to conduct searches and interviews.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

In states like Texas, Tennessee and Louisiana, many officers are worried. Also, from 2008 through 2017, 22 police officers were feloniously killed with a firearm in the state. This push has put police officers at odds with Republican lawmakers who usually trumpet support for law enforcement. Fabian Blache Jr., Across the U.S.,

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