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MLB moves All-Star Game, draft out of Georgia due to new voting restrictions

JURIST

Major League Baseball (MLB) announced Friday that the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB draft will not be held in Georgia, in response to Georgia’s new voting restrictions that were signed into law on March 25. . President Joe Biden called the law “Jim Crow in the 21 st Century,” as the restrictions disproportionately affect Black voters.

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TikTok Campaigns Prompt Students to Vandalism and Violence: Educator

The Crime Report

Already dealing with reacclimating students to classrooms this fall, Georgia schools are now being forced to confront social media posts daring children to destroy school property and even hit teachers, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ” Another Atlanta teacher said social media is merely stoking a pre-existing problem.

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Supreme Court Considers “Hot Pursuit” in Closely Watched Fourth Amendment Case

Constitutional Law Reporter

California , which involves whether police pursuits for misdemeanors justify a warrantless entry, an issue which has divided the lower courts. However, the Supreme Court’s exigent circumstances precedents have not yet addressed pursuits involving suspected misdemeanors, which are by far the most common basis for arrest.

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Off-duty Virginia police officer sentenced to 87 months for January 6 riot

JURIST

The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Fifty-five people have been charged to date with crimes related to the attack on the US Capitol. The indictments against Robertson matched those against Guy Revitt , sentenced just days earlier on August 1.

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Beards and Brady (i.e., religious freedom and criminal procedure)

SCOTUSBlog

Muslim prisoner argues that Georgia corrections’ limit on beard lengths violates his religious exercise. Muslim prisoner argues that Georgia corrections’ limit on beard lengths violates his religious exercise. After Holt , Georgia corrections allowed all inmates to grow half-inch beards. In Smith v.

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Children and Guns: Holding Parents Accountable

The Crime Report

Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee are among states where “reckless provision” of a firearm to a minor can lead to criminal charges. In most states, violating the CAP law is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is a slap on the wrist. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge?

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Miami Woman Arrested After Allegedly Posing As Student To Get Kids To Follow Her On Instagram

JonathanTurley

That creates a dangerously fluid and subjective basis for criminal charge, even a misdemeanor. Media reports state that she previously worked as a deputy in the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia and was indicted in January 2017 for allegedly hacking into another policeman’s phone.