SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The post Justices hear argument on whether “hot pursuit” for misdemeanors allows police to enter home without a warrant appeared first on SCOTUSblog. The evidence used to convict Lange was obtained by a California highway patrol officer, who had followed Lange in.

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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. This post was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chutkan acknowledged that Mazzocco had pleaded guilty only to one misdemeanor count of “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building,” a common charge for many of the rioters. Mazzocco posted photos of himself on Facebook in the Capitol on Jan.

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ABA Journal

MAY 24, 2023

A Wisconsin lawyer chose jail over community service Tuesday for spitting on a Black teenager during a 2020 protest. Shorewood, Wisconsin, lawyer Stephanie Rapkin, 67,…

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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. The State charged Lange with the misdemeanor of driving under the influence. California, 594 U.S. _ (2021) , the U.S.

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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.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

There is a controversy at the University of Wisconsin this week after the Dane County District Attorney’s Office in Wisconsin filed misdemeanor battery charges against three teens suspected in the brutal assault of a UW-Madison Chinese PhD student. Instead, such pattern evidence can be weighed in the sentencing on the misdemeanor charges.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

The first offense constitutes a misdemeanor, carrying penalties of up to one year in the county jail, a fine not exceeding $500 or both. Under the provisions of HB 4156, impermissible occupation is defined as the act of a noncitizen entering and remaining in Oklahoma without legal authorization.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 18, 2021

Now, the couple has been allowed to plead to two minor misdemeanors in the conclusion of a highly politicized case. Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault while Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment. Gardner spent a huge amount of time and money on this effort in order to secure these misdemeanors.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 8, 2021

An Ohio municipal judge has been accused of ignoring state law by jailing unrepresented defendants for failure to pay fees and fines without holding a…

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The decree stated that misdemeanors and violations will be pardoned. This amnesty included crimes of desertion and misdemeanors. Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad issued a decree on Thursday (Legislative Decree No 36 of 2023) granting amnesty for certain crimes committed before the decree was issued, subject to conditions.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2023

Director Nils Muižnieks issued his statement after Greece’s Court of Appeal of Mytilene dropped some of the misdemeanor charges previously laid against the volunteers. The statute of limitations for the remaining misdemeanor charges against the two will expire in February. All we want is justice. We want this to go to trial.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2022

Protestors now face second degree misdemeanor charges with the possible punishment of 60 days in jail and fines of up to $500. Should protestors not disperse, however, the bill makes any violation a misdemeanor in the second degree. The Florida House of Representatives first introduced the bill in January. It then passed in March.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

” Brock was given 24 months of imprisonment for felony obstruction of an official proceeding and a concurrent sentence of 6 to 12 months of jail each for five other misdemeanors.

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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. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.” ” However, Hunter Seefried was acquitted on three charges.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 17, 2022

Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel in Arizona has said she takes full responsibility for 180 misdemeanor cases that were dropped because prosecutors failed to file…

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A judicial candidate in Michigan has been charged with misdemeanor domestic assault after an office worker recorded him removing his belt and swinging it multiple…

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Virginia law states that any motorist pulled over for driving 20 miles per hour or more about the limit (to an excess of 80 mph in any speed limit) the driver is eligible to be charged with a Class 1 misdemeanor violation. At the court stage, the courts amended or dismissed misdemeanor speeding charges 42 percent of the time.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2021

California that, under the Fourth Amendment, pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always or categorically qualify as an exigent circumstance justifying warrantless entry into a home. The officer then questioned Lange and ultimately charged him with two vehicle code misdemeanors and an infraction.

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NCBA

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

By the North Carolina Judicial Branch Are you interested in understanding more about criminal court case processing in North Carolina? Courtesy of the North Carolina Judicial Branch, the Paralegal Division blog is publishing a three-part series the first three weeks of February.

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JURIST

JUNE 25, 2022

It also enhances the background check review process for juveniles and people convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2024

The state’s new law, SB 4 , would make it a misdemeanor offense for foreign nationals to enter the state from abroad unless arriving at a “lawful port of entry,” and would give magistrates the power to order persons found violating the law to return abroad in lieu of prosecution.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2024

Texas’s law, SB 4 , makes it a misdemeanor offense for foreign nationals to enter the state from abroad unless arriving at a “lawful port of entry,” upgrading the offense to a felony for subsequent convictions. It also gives magistrates the power to order persons found violating the law to return abroad in lieu of prosecution.

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ABA Journal

JUNE 7, 2022

A former general counsel for the New York City Board of Elections has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors for allegedly subjecting job seekers to a…

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A Florida lawyer was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor disorderly conduct after she allegedly stripped naked at a bar and refused to leave. Police…

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In Multnomah County, the court system delayed more than 700 unrepresented misdemeanor cases and 800 unrepresented felony cases from February through mid-August.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Walsh — As readers of the FDA Law Blog know, the FDC Act is a strict liability criminal enforcement statute that can impose criminal misdemeanor penalties on a person without any showing of intent. Richard Marschall, a “naturopathic doctor,” had been convicted in 2017 for a misdemeanor violation of the FDC Act for selling misbranded drugs.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Thursday moved to vacate 188 misdemeanor convictions tied to eight New York City Police Department officers. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. This request represents part of an ongoing review by the DA Office’s Post-Conviction Justice Unit of more than 1,100 cases connected to a list of 22 former NYPD officers.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 15, 2021

6 attack, a misdemeanor with a sentence of up to six months, in a plea deal that could set a benchmark for hundreds of other cases, reports Reuters. Jessica and Joshua Bustle of Bristow were the first to reach such an agreement with prosecutors on a misdemeanor charge. Capitol during the Jan.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 11, 2022

Philadelphia’s Accelerated Misdemeanor Program (AMP) requires a defendant to do 12-18 hours of community service and to pay court fees within 10 weeks of accepting the terms, expunging the case records of those who complete the program.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2022

The city saw a 25 percent increase in misdemeanor arrests six months into his tenure, the first increase in a decade, reports Bloomberg news. Low-level assault, theft and drug possession amounted to 51 percent of misdemeanors, and almost 90 percent of those arrested were people of color. ”

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Above The Law

AUGUST 9, 2021

Just A Misdemeanor Of A Mass Riot : Lawyers for Ashli Babbit's family say she was wrongfully killed over misdemeanor trespass. Frère Ronnie, Dormez-vous : Ron DeSantis gets whipped by cruise line over dormant commerce clause. There's one for the 2021 bingo card. Keep Waiting : Another firm delays opening.

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The Crime Report

JULY 30, 2021

Among misdemeanors, Black defendants have the highest diversion rates in Jacksonville and Tampa, and the lowest in Milwaukee. In Jacksonville, “Black defendants have increasingly higher diversion rates among misdemeanors,” the authors write. In Chicago, racial differences in felony diversion are “large,” the authors write.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Expungement is available for misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor charges, such as theft, forgery or drug possession or sale. The clinic will help the 5 percent of people eligible for expungement go through the process. billion in cumulative wages are lost every year in Minnesota due to convictions that should be expunged.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

Lawmakers responded to the ruling by temporarily making drug possession a simple misdemeanor. Washington’s Supreme Court declared Washington’s felony drug possession statute unconstitutional in 2021 because it made possession a felony, whether someone was aware of the drugs being on them or not.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The officers were charged with felony cruelty to persons and a misdemeanor charge of second-degree reckless endangerment, according to state police. Cox’s lawyers filed a $100 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the city of New Haven and the five officers involved in transporting him in September.

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