JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court placed an administrative stay on Friday on a lower court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) that barred the enforcement of the state’s strict abortion bans on a pregnant woman whose fetus was recently diagnosed with a fatal condition. This is not the only abortion-related case in the Texas Supreme Court.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 13, 2023

Texas Senator Joan Huffman has proposed a bill that would require a 10-year prison sentence for people who use a gun during the commission of a felony, William Melhado and Alejandro Serrano reports for The Texas Tribune. This bill arrives two years after the state widely expanded gun access.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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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. In 2017 Kelley purchased the firearms and ammunition used in the shooting from an Academy store in San Antonio, Texas in four separate transactions. The post US Justice Department to give $144.5M

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EvidenceProf Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Texas Rule of Evidence 609(a) provides that Evidence of a criminal conviction offered to attack a witness’s character for truthfulness must be admitted if: (1) the crime was a felony or involved moral turpitude, regardless of punishment; (2) the probative.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Ochs and fellow defendent Nicholas DeCarlo of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty to only one of seven charges in their plea agreements. The post Proud Boys HI founder pleads guilty to felony charges for Jan 6 riot participation appeared first on JURIST - News.

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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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ABA Journal

JULY 19, 2022

A district judge in Dallas County, Texas, who presides in felony cases has been ordered to be recused from dozens of cases based on requests…

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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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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

Texas Rule of Evidence 609(a) provides that Evidence of a criminal conviction offered to attack a witness’s character for truthfulness must be admitted if: (1) the crime was a felony or involved moral turpitude, regardless of punishment; (2) the probative.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The model law , developed by the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council and adopted by at least ten states, including Texas, criminalizes protest action on “critical infrastructure” and holds the accused liable for any damage that may have occurred.

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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. As a subsequent ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals finally made clear, the arrangement was not a momentary lapse in judgment or a one-time offense induced under pressure. Wilson will face similar challenges in Texas.

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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

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. The passing of S.B.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The trial of Kaitlin Armstrong, who is accused of murdering star cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson out of romantic jealousy on May 11, 2022, began in Texas Wednesday, Ethan Weinstein reports for VTDigger. Armstong has also been charged with felony escape after attempting to flee custody at the prison she is being held in.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

New Mexico’s neighboring state Texas enacted trigger laws which went into place after Roe was overturned. These laws banned abortion immediately and enacted civil fines and felony charges for those who break the law. Abortion clinics in Texas were therefore forced to close their doors and move to states like New Mexico.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

On Thursday, Unicorn Riot released an investigative report by Arturo Dominguez documenting the crisis-level conditions at the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas, the third-largest jail in the U.S. Overcrowding, medical crises and a lack of mental health services have contributed to the deaths of dozens of detainees, Dominguez reports.

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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

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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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 ]. . * Governor DeSantis is trying to create his own civilian police force. This is totally normal. Definitely not something you do before civil conflict. The post Morning Docket: 12.03.21

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

He was convicted of all 24 counts brought against him, including terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree premeditated murder, seven counts of assault with intent to murder and 12 counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. This is not the only litigation following the Oxford shooting.

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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. In December, the Texas Supreme Court denied Kate Cox access to an abortion, despite her pregnancy compilations.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In addition, she says over 500 individuals had open felony cases upon arrest. A r ecent study of bail reforms in Harris County, Texas suggested that recidivism dropped since the reforms were enacted. Felony arrests have increased in every category, up more than 27 percent overall.

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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

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

APRIL 14, 2022

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. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper. Tyler Smotherman will graduate from Texas Law Tech in May 2023.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. In Texas, as another example, a juvenile tried in adult court faces the same penalties as an adult, except for the death penalty and mandatory life without parole.

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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 law is part of a Texas initiative to curb irregular migration called “Operation Lone Star.”

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

.” Recent rulings in lower courts across the country have mirrored Thomas’s guidance to stay consistent with how states have historically regulated gun ownership, striking down gun restrictions involving young adults, people facing felony charges, and makers of homemade guns.

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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. Most mass shooters do not live to go to trial.

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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. This tragedy is not confined to Texas.

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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

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. Federal judges in Oklahoma and Texas, as well as the U.S. Users say the situation is depriving them of their constitutional right to own a gun.

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The Crime Report

MAY 23, 2022

Under Rosales, people with multiple family violence charges and identifiable patterns of violence have been released from jail due to a section of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure that says people cannot be jailed past a certain period if prosecutors are not ready to take their cases to trial.

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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. rescheduled before the Dec. 1 conference; relisted after the Dec.

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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. Oklahoma Gov.

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