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The Secret Success of Federal Probationers

The Crime Report

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. percent serious felony violations (grade A), 31.5 percent other felony violations (grade B), and 54.9 percent, 28.07

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“Kill Two Birds With One Stone”: Well-Known Colorado Lawyer and Animal Rights Advocate Pleads Guilty to Murder-For-Hire Plot

JonathanTurley

The 35-page affidavit filed in January stated that a ranch hand came to the sheriff’s office on November 2, 2020 with a tale right out of a film noir script. She also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of child abuse, criminal mischief, reckless driving, and evidence tampering.

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Miami-Dade Police Officer Will Not Be Charged Over Slapping Woman at Airport

JonathanTurley

The June 2020 confrontation was captured on video. She was charged with felony battery of a law-enforcement officer. Battery; felony battery. —. (1)(a)? Except as provided in subsection (2) or subsection (3), a person who commits battery commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.

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Patients Went to This Isolated Facility for Treatment. Instead, Nearly Two Dozen Were Charged With Crimes.

The Crime Report

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. Williams, records show, is far from the only patient to have faced criminal charges. Reporters did not identify any charges at two of the four facilities.). She called the practice “highly inappropriate.”

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NYC Transit Safety Endangered by Reforms, Reduced Enforcement: Paper

The Crime Report

“Over the five arrests made for six of the 10 subway murders since March 2020, four of the suspects, allegedly responsible for five murders among them, had had previous run-ins with the law for alleged or convicted violent offenses.”. felonies fell by 15 percent?helped violent felonies per million rides, it was still 3.1

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Tennessee Woman Receives Six Years in Prison for Illegally Registering to Vote in 2020

JonathanTurley

She has an extensive record of felony convictions. Moses pleaded guilty in 2015 to felonies including tampering with evidence and forgery, as well as misdemeanor charges of perjury, stalking, theft under $500, and escape. Even if the court is correct about her intentional deception, six years strikes me as quite excessive.

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Plan B From Outer Manhattan: Why the Court Should Move the Trump Trial Out of Manhattan

JonathanTurley

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. percent , in the 2020 presidential election. percent to 14.5 In 1878, in Reynolds v.

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