SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 23, 2021
Share The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that when police are pursuing someone for a misdemeanor, that pursuit does not automatically create the kind of emergency that allows the officer to follow the suspect into a home without a warrant. Once there, Weikert said, he smelled alcohol. But a California appeals court rejected that argument.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2024
The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed House Bill 4156 on Thursday by a vote of 77-20, which proposes the creation of the criminal act of impermissible occupation, targeting individuals who willfully enter and remain in Oklahoma without legal authorization to be in the United States. Iowa also passed a similar law in March.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
JULY 20, 2021
It held that, under the Fourth Amendment , the pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always (or categorically) qualify as an exigent circumstance justifying a warrantless entry into a home. A later blood test showed that Lange’s blood-alcohol content was three times the legal limit. California, 594 U.S. _ (2021) , the U.S.
JURIST
MAY 21, 2022
The case traces back to 1993 when petitioner-appellant Daniel Doubek received a misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence after he broke into his estranged wife’s home and proclaimed threats. The DOJ found that his “conviction constituted a disqualifying ‘misdemeanor crime of domestic violence’ under federal law.”
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 25, 2021
While California’s cannabis market is booming nearly five years after voters legalized recreational weed, the vast majority of pot sales are still underground, with the state’s illegal market approaching $8 billion annually, twice the volume of legal sales, reports Politico.
The Crime Report
MAY 1, 2023
Minnesota has passed a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana. The automatic expungement of misdemeanor marijuana records would be overseen by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. This is part of a broader move towards social equity and racial justice.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Patriot Front, a white nationalist group whose members are accused of a misdemeanor count of conspiring to riot at an LGBTQ gathering and in downtown Coeur d’Alene in June, has escalated its activities.
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