The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For felony charges, the Salem News details that petitioners have to wait at least seven years, misdemeanors mean waiting three years. Ultimately, major convictions like murder, drunk driving, battery, and other sexual offenses like rape cannot be expunged. .

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

These reports are part of the Commission’s statutory mandate and provide vital information and analysis to attorneys, scholars and the public. Unfortunately, the Commission’s July 2020 report on Federal Probation and Supervised Release Violations contains a major mistake that greatly overstates the dangerousness of federal probationers.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The paper said a survey of 19 “progressive” city, state and county attorneys in 14 states found that 95 percent reported their policies—which ranged from eliminating cash bail to creating programs that provided alternatives to incarceration—had lowered jail and prison populations without significantly endangering public safety.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

He served 61 years in prison before being released on parole in February 2020. Weger’s attorneys, Celeste Stack and I, continue to seek to prove Chester’s innocence and are seeking to review and analyze the physical evidence and are working to be able to conduct forensic testing on some of that evidence.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 16, 2023

The court granted the Attorney General’s petition for review in People v. Howard (2020) 50 Cal.App.5th The cases concern resentencing a defendant whose felony-murder conviction is tossed under subsequent legislation narrowing the felony-murder rule. Uber Technologies, Inc. , 2021) 71 Cal.App.5th

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On Wednesday, Digmon was also charged with two felony counts of violating state ethics law for allegedly using her school board position to solicit a thing of value by selling more than $2,500 in advertisements to the board. ” Abuse of grand jury information is a felony under Alabama law. Theodore J.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

Kathy Hochul is seeking to amend the state’s bail law by rolling back bans instituted in 2019 on cash bail for most misdemeanor and nonviolent felony offenses and, instead, letting judges set bail for more repeat offenders, as well as for people who are accused of a larger list of gun crimes, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 12, 2023

5th 769; In re Williams (2020) 57 Cal.App.5th The prosecution acted under a Los Angeles County District Attorney directive to not contest certain resentencing petitions in felony-murder cases. The Supreme Court has denied review in several cases reaching a contrary conclusion. See among others People v. 5th 193; People v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 5, 2021

The Yolo County (California) District Attorney’s Office says they have been tracking people who were let out on zero-dollar bail and observed that almost half have been arrested again, reports FOX40. Since April 13, 2020, individuals released on $0 bail have committed over 908 new crimes in the county and 41.6

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At the Lectern

JUNE 27, 2024

A court recommendation is constitutionally required before a governor can grant clemency to anyone who has been “twice convicted of a felony.” Also, three years ago, Woods endorsed Justice Goodwin Liu’s bid to be named California Attorney General by Governor Newsom. The nomination later went to Rob Bonta.)

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

cities experienced a 30 percent jump in killings in 2020, the biggest one-year increase since the federal government began compiling national figures in the 1960s. In Suffolk County, Republican Ray Tierney trounced Democratic incumbent District Attorney Tim Sini with 145,933 votes or 57 percent to 109,060 votes or 43 percent.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The dispute is whether a superior court can consider grand jury testimony in deciding if a defendant meets the criteria for resentencing under SB 1437 and subsequent amending legislation, which narrowed liability under the felony murder and the natural and probable consequences doctrines. Ocobachi (2024) 105 Cal.App.5th 2d 218; Pen.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

The district attorney did not pursue the charges against Gonzalez. But Gonzalez went to federal court in 2020, where she argued that the charges stemmed from the desire of three city officials – the city’s mayor, its police chief, and a detective – to retaliate against her because she had criticized the city’s manager.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For decades, attorneys, activists, academics, and even judges have openly critiqued the War on Drugs and its associated harsh enforcement policies such as mandatory minimum sentencing. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 19, 2021

cabinet member, a labor leader, and a civil rights activist — calling for Governor Gavin Newsom to nominate Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu as California Attorney General if the current AG, Xavier Becerra, is confirmed as President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The dispute is whether a superior court can consider grand jury testimony in deciding if a defendant meets the criteria for resentencing under SB 1437 and subsequent amending legislation, which narrowed liability under the felony murder and the natural and probable consequences doctrines. Ocobachi (2024) 105 Cal.App.5th evidentiary hearing?

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

That 2018 legislation, which scales back the felony-murder rule and the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine, has been attacked by various district attorney’s around the state as an invalid amendment of several voter initiatives and as a violation of the separation of powers. Marquez (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th

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The Crime Report

JULY 20, 2021

The team, based in Homan Square on the West Side, will work under Jason Brown, commander of the police department’s gang investigations and narcotics division, and Elena Gottreich, a former assistant Cook County state’s attorney who, as a prosecutor, focused on gun crimes. city, including New York City.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A court recommendation is constitutionally required before a governor can grant clemency to anyone who has been “twice convicted of a felony.” Also, Woods in 2021 endorsed Justice Goodwin Liu’s bid to be named California Attorney General by Governor Newsom. Woods was convicted of residential burglary and kidnapping in 1989.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 17, 2021

” The Attorney General unsuccessfully argued the case is final when the defendant doesn’t appeal the suspended sentence, not when, as with Esquivel, the sentence is ordered into effect three years later upon a finding of a parole violation. McKenzie (2020) 9 Cal.5th The court ruled similarly last year in People v.

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ALPS

AUGUST 4, 2022

” And he brought in three black women attorneys to come talk to me. In the South Dakota Bar, we have about 2,700 lawyers, but we have anecdotally, maybe 10 to 15 Native American attorneys. So that is our most underrepresented group of attorneys. I do a lot of education just on attorney wellness. So we continued.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 22, 2021

Jaimes , but it granted the Attorney General’s request to depublish the Fifth District’s divided, partially published opinion that held the superior court erroneously responded to a jury question about the meaning of a charged sentence enhancement for a person “convicted of a felony committed. Jaimes , above.).

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The court granted review in January 2020. In re Jenkins : When the court granted review in April 2021 , it limited the issues to these: “Where a habeas petitioner claims not to have received a fair trial because the District Attorney failed to disclose material evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland (1963) 373 U.S. Link added.)

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

gun homicides per 100,000 population in 2020. District attorneys have campaigned on pledges to right past wrongs, and once elected they’ve brought officers to account for controversial uses of force, including some that occurred years earlier. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there were 5.9

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2023

That worked for defusing the scandal in 2020, but now another election was fast approaching, which called for a “controlled demolition” to protect political and media figures from any public backlash. Attorney David Weiss state that that there is an “ongoing investigation.” That is why it is a bit suspicious to see U.S.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 19, 2021

Menetrez, a former Horvitz & Levy attorney, wrote the article before becoming a judge. Supreme Court case changed the rule in 2010, the defendant’s attorney “had no affirmative duty. 4th 522; In re Scoggins (2020) 9 Cal.5th The appellate court held that, before a U.S. Clark (2016) 63 Cal.4th

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At the Lectern

JUNE 26, 2023

Everyone is on the same page on the retroactivity issue — the defendant, the Attorney General, and the court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan. Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th It’s not an easily resolved issue, because the Legislature didn’t specify an answer. In People v.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

” The appellate court criticized a 2020 opinion by the Second District, Division Seven. It concluded a kill zone instruction is OK if “the evidence supports a reasonable inference that the defendant had the requisite intent [i.e., The court also agreed to hear Law Finance Group, LLC v. Newly enacted Senate Bill 775 (Stats.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I don’t think the actual terms of the neighborhood order of protection were clear to my client,” said Maureen Hanlon, an attorney for the public-interest law group ArchCity Defenders. “It He agreed to stay out of downtown but was subsequently arrested for a violation and served three months in jail, a case highlighted by the St.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

Possession and distribution is a felony under federal law, as is the use of radio, TV or the Internet to facilitate that distribution. Stations need to do a thorough check of their state’s laws and the regulations of their state agencies to see what other rules might apply to these sales. After all that, we are back to where we began.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The defendants, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan, chased Arbery in a pickup truck and fatally shot him in February 2020 while Arbery was running on a public street in a Georgia neighborhood. The defendants face charges of felony murder and false imprisonment. Arbery was unarmed.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

California prosecutors on Friday charged Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) — one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the US — with involuntary manslaughter, finding a connection between the utility’s equipment and the deaths of four people in the 2020 Zogg Fire.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office Friday announced that former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Lyons will stand on trial for the on-duty fatal shooting of unarmed 24-year-old Ryan Twyman in 2019. No deputies were injured. The second deputy involved was suspended for a month in January.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. She also said she didn’t know the facility security staff had been conducting investigations and determining whether patients had committed felonies that were then referred to the state’s attorney.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

Arbery is the unarmed 25-year-old Black man whose name became a rallying cry during the 2020 protests against police brutality. On February 23, 2020, three white residents of Glynn Country, Georgia—Travis McMichael and his father Gregory, as well as William Bryan—pursued and fatally shot Arbery while he was jogging.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

The district attorney ultimately declined to pursue the charges against Gonzalez. The vast majority of the 215 felony indictments under the law, she explained, involved either the use or the creation of fake government identifications. Gonzalez filed a federal civil rights claim in Sept.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

This guide, authored by County Attorney Reese Frederickson from Minnesota, IIP Deputy Director Alissa Marque Heydari, a nd IIP Legal Fellow Chloe Marmet , spotlights individuals who have implemented restorative justice programs to meet the needs of the victims, society, and the accused in their communities.

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