JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

Additionally, if municipalities pass authorizing legislation, county or municipal attorneys may also enforce the law. The bill also removes the public library exemption from the state’s criminal obscenity laws. This means that state governments are free to pass laws that limit obscene speech.

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2022

The complaint filed in the District of Columbia stated: “Gray is charged with civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding, both felonies, as well as misdemeanor offenses. Isaacs is charged with destruction of documents, a felony, and related misdemeanors, and Hallon is charged with misdemeanor offenses.”

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JURIST

MAY 14, 2024

In January 2024, Batten pleaded guilty to “one felony count of possessing an unregistered destructive device” and “one misdemeanor count of intentionally damaging a reproductive health services facility, in violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.”

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday announced Kevin Seefried and his son Hunter Seefried were found guilty “ of felony and misdemeanor charges for their actions during the Jan. Both of the Seefrieds, according to the US Government’s evidence, attended a rally on January 6, 2021, “and then headed to the US Capitol.”

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Local government opposition, high taxes and competition from unlicensed businesses are complicating California’s push to build a thriving legal market. Many in the industry say that the current penalty of a misdemeanor and $500 fine is simply too low to dissuade illicit activity.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

At issue was the federal “felon-in-possession” law—18 U.S.C. § The federal law makes it “unlawful for any person. However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. 922(g)(1), which bars ex-felons from possession of firearms.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

require some type of government-issued license. Even worse, those laws exacerbate labor shortages by taking willing workers out of the job market who could fill essential jobs in critical fields. directs the Corrections and Reentry Division at the Council of State Governments Justice Center. Nicole Jarrett, Ph.D.,

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Nationally, about 100,000 people serve sentences for misdemeanors in jails on any given day, according to estimates from the Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice think tank. Yet, depending on state laws, many retain their voting rights even while incarcerated.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Moerschel is additionally charged with destruction of government property and aiding and abetting. Fifty-five people have been charged to date with crimes related to the attack on the US Capitol.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In reaction to nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism, law enforcement agency budgets in many urban areas were slated to be slashed in 2021.Some They argue it’s the only way to restore law and order in American cities. Meanwhile, statistics on violent crime paint a grim picture.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

The decision further indicated that longstanding firearms bans for felons were “presumptively lawful.” Raymond Holloway cannot possess firearms because of a misdemeanor conviction for driving under the influence. Heller held that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms at home. Under 18 U.S.C. §

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

This year’s rich harvest brings the total number of criminal record reforms enacted in the past three years to over 400 separate laws,” the report said, celebrating what it said was a bipartisan commitment to end “unwarranted discrimination” against the formerly incarcerated. not disenfranchising at all). Reintegration Awards.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Several new states have joined those previously identified as reform leaders, and half a dozen other states have made “substantial improvements” to existing laws, according to the report. The survey and report card are the latest in a regular series of evaluations of progress in the nation’s restorative rights laws, produced by CCRC.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Greg Abbott says he supports decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2022

law allows the MPD to determine whether a person is a “suitable” applicant to own a handgun. Key to that decision was a fact absent here: a law passed in the interim by the state of New York that prevents any city or locality from reinstating a similar regulation. A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: Lowery v. Whitaker v.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

. “We don’t have strong enough laws,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told reporters at a Dec. That law doesn’t require the gun purchaser to use the safety device sold with their firearm. And, there are no federal laws mandating gun storage practices after the owner takes position of a legally purchased firearm.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Path to Well-Being in Law. And I got very interested in how court policy shapes not just the practice of law but access to justice, a court user experience, and really the lived promise of equal justice under law and how court policy, which might seem on its face kind of neutral and bland, can have a huge impact on that.

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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 US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later stayed that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

That creates a dangerously fluid and subjective basis for criminal charge, even a misdemeanor. All persons guilty of an affray shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. . — Whoever shall resist, obstruct, or oppose any officer as defined in s. 775.082 or s. Here are the provisions: 870.01?

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 27, 2022

Under RLUIPA, the government may not “impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person residing in or confined to an institution,” unless the government proves the restriction is “in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest” and is “the least restrictive means of furthering” that government interest.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly. 29.304 and 29.593.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 2, 2021

Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association and the Law Enforcement Labor Services has taken the unusual (if not unprecedented) step of asking the University of Minnesota to investigate a student for her call to make the lives of campus police a living “hell.” Misdemeanor offenses. Gross misdemeanor offenses.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. But for those who wish to reduce harm to people who use drugs now, not just in a hypothetical future, where drugs are no longer subject to criminal law, working with the police is of paramount importance.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 30, 2021

The legal framework for using GPS tracking for business affairs varies from country to country, and this poses a challenge for companies that have to comply with the laws in place in order to continue their operations. Business owners and executives can find themselves on the wrong side of the law if they fail to adhere to the regulations.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

pleaded guilty to violating a federal law barring people convicted of a felony from possessing a firearm. At sentencing, the government sought an enhancement under the ACCA; it claimed that three of Borden’s prior felony convictions were violent felonies. The district court ruled for the government and the U.S. Borden objected.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

People walk dangerous routes when the government eliminates or fails to provide legal avenues that are safe, permanent and predictable whether it’s across the street or across an international border. The problems with the absence of permanent and lawful paths to entry have been decades in the making. Dr. Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 24, 2022

Immunity for law enforcement : The court granted-and-held in Nelson v. County of Riverside , which is expected to decide whether immunity under Government Code section 821.6 PL Hotel Group and sent the case back to the Fourth District, Division One, for rehearing after supplemental briefing under Government Code section 68081.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2021

John Adams believed that the jury trial and representative government were “the heart and lungs of liberty.”. I consider the trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution,” he wrote in a letter to Thomas Paine. Thomas Jefferson thought so too. “I

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

The arrest appears to have been made under a state hate crime law that has long been criticized by some of us in the free speech community as dangerously vague. ” The law is similar to the type of vague speech codes that we have addressed on campuses but this is an actual criminal provision under state law.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

where the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal, in a published opinion , affirmed almost $170,000 in attorneys fees after a jury awarded less than $22,000 for a violation of the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (commonly known as the “lemon law”) in the sale of a used car. HNL Automotive Inc. See here and here.)

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While the authors did a yeoman’s job of combing through the criminal cases to identify what they view as a “handful” of cases and call for increased use of the Park doctrine, we at the FDA Law Blog respectfully disagree. The JAMA editorial notes that there are few Park cases for two primary reasons: [The government] may lead.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Oberlin maintained in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery “violently and unreasonably attacked” an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent. The Supreme Court has made clear that to obtain a conviction for use of “fighting words,” the Government must offer evidence of the “likelihood that the person addressed would make an immediate violent response.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

The New York Penal Law focuses on “forcible touching” cases. Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. The women could bring direct criminal complaint against Cuomo. However, they may find it difficult to frame the many alleged incidents of Cuomo’s unwanted kissing and hugging into criminal charges.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold a federal law which bans domestic abusers from owning guns In one of the most high-profile cases of this year. Further, what should qualify someone as “dangerous” in the eyes of the law? Current federal law 18 U.S.C.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor after he was caught on videotape pulling a fire alarm in the middle of a key vote to avoid a government shutdown. The misdemeanor was the charge that I discussed when this first arose.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A federal judge is set to hear arguments December 19 over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson that the Justice Department says would continue the state’s long history of trying to suppress Black people’s right to participate in government, Emily Wagster Pettus reports for the Associated Press.

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