2020 Criminal Law Misdemeanor 
The Crime Report
JULY 13, 2021
“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.”. NYPD routinely confiscated handguns and knives from people committing misdemeanors on the subways.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
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. The tampering charge was the barrier for voting eligibility because she was serving seven years of probation.
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The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
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 misdemeanor and technical violations (grade C), while I found the rates for probation violators were 6.99 percent, 28.07
The Crime Report
APRIL 11, 2022
police chief) and his academic colleagues found that a majority of police officers surveyed “perceived control” over their decision to arrest for misdemeanors (69 percent) or confiscate drug paraphernalia like syringes (56 percent). Not coincidentally, Oregon decriminalized drug possession in 2020. Rory Fleming.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Rittenhouse is facing six charges that range from first-degree homicide to a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. At this stage, the prosecution may celebrate even a misdemeanor conviction. However, this trial is about the actions of one individual – not society – in 2020.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 22, 2021
The June 2020 confrontation was captured on video. 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. Officer Antonio Clemente Rodriguez slapped Paris Anderson without, in my view, proper justification or cause. 775.082 or s.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 27, 2022
The charges in all but one of the 40 cases were elevated from misdemeanors to felonies based on legal technicalities allowed under Illinois law — that the altercations happened at a “public place” or that the victim was a medical professional — rather than the seriousness of the acts. We are not a criminal law enforcement entity.
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