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

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 10, 2024

The court sent an oral argument letter in December of last year, but the case might not be calendared until this coming November at the earliest because the court has found good cause for one attorney’s request not to set the case for argument in September or October. Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County v.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Four-justice separate statement, citing amicus letters, urges legislative action on vessel speed limit statute. ” The appellate court criticized a 2020 opinion by the Second District, Division Seven. Those, and other actions of note, were: Supreme Court will decide constitutionality of LGBT rights legislation.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. By January 1 of 2020 that population had been reduced by 2,000 people all at once. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Among the city’s five district attorneys, this rate ranged from a high of 23 percent in Manhattan to just 1 percent in the Bronx, where just a single hate crime arrest out of a total of 92 resulted in a hate crime conviction since District Attorney Darcel Clark took control of the office in 2016.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. The justices should also weigh in, Avenatti contended, on whether an attorney can be held liable for extortion for his conduct during litigation.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

In August, Trump was indicted , accused along with several co-defendants of having orchestrated a racketeering scheme aimed at intentionally altering the results in Georgia of the 2020 US presidential elections. Kimbrough, 300 Ga.

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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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. It is not simply that the district attorney ran on a pledge to indict this defendant.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

Seven other states require a “good cause or special need” to carry a concealed gun in public under statutes like the New York law that are now at risk. In 2020, while Black people made up 18% of New York’s population, they accounted for 78% of the state’s felony gun possession cases.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

So-called “trigger” laws have already gone into effect in states where anti-abortion statutes are already on the books have been activated by the decision. Alabama’s Attorney General was granted an emergency motion to dissolve an injunction against the law on Friday afternoon. Performing an abortion is a felony offense.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share During a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate, then-candidate Joe Biden pledged that, if elected, he would nominate a Black woman to serve on the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and a second summer as a summer associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson. Supreme Court. before going to clerk for Judge David Tatel of the U.S.

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JURIST

JULY 15, 2024

In November 2022, US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith to serve as special counsel with oversight of two investigations related to Trump. First, Smith was tasked with investigating whether Trump attempted to interfere with the 2020 election that ended his presidency, and the subsequent transfer of power to Biden.

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