The Crime Report
JANUARY 21, 2022
New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.
LawSites
JUNE 6, 2023
Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. In 2019, she led the successful effort that resulted in the unanimous passage of Utah’s Clean Slate law, which made Utah only the second U.S.
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The Crime Report
APRIL 11, 2022
police chief) and his academic colleagues found that a majority of police officers surveyed “perceived control” over their decision to arrest for misdemeanors (69 percent) or confiscate drug paraphernalia like syringes (56 percent). A recent study published by Brandon del Pozo (the former Burlington, Vt. He writes from Philadelphia.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 31, 2022
The study by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School focused on the results of reforms introduced in Harris County, Texas, which was required by federal consent decree to change bail policy for misdemeanor charges five years ago. from 2015 to May 2022.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 11, 2021
A groundbreaking study by the Rand Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes this point. This isn’t the tail wagging the dog; this tail has swallowed the dog. I’ve spent nearly 50 years defending criminal cases, and I don’t expect an Armistice to be declared any time soon.
ALPS
OCTOBER 28, 2020
I was first diagnosed with anxiety when I was in law school, and working with cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, diet, exercise, creative outlets, I’ve managed to kind of handle that to varying quality within my law school and early professional career. So all of those folks we have the law schools.
The Estrin Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
My practice areas include Family Law and Criminal Defense. On the criminal side, I handle low level misdemeanors up to felonies. I randomly received a phone call from an old friend from law school asking if I could analyze a murder case on Court TV. I handle anything from child custody cases to divorce to paternity.
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