JURIST

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday vacated the class certification of Black Lives Matter protesters in their 2020 complaint against the city of Los Angeles for alleged use of excessive force. The city appealed these certifications to the Ninth Circuit.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A research-based tool, known as the Public Safety Assessment (PSA), was implemented in Bernalillo County in 2017 to help judges gauge the likelihood of a defendant’s success while released pending trial – meaning that a person returns for future court appearances and remains arrest-free while their case is resolved.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in person on Monday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the court in March 2020. The government charged him under the ACCA, which would subject Wooden to a fifteen year mandatory minimum sentence, but only if he had three prior violent felonies.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2020 , 121,863 applicants were approved. “Unlawful carrying of a handgun” could also become a Level 5 felony under certain conditions. Current Indiana law requires individuals to apply for a handgun license. Only 4,495 applicants were rejected.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 3, 2023

All non-unanimous convictions, including convictions for violent felonies, that were reached during the 86-year period in Oregon when the state allowed split-jury convictions have been overturned retroactively, invalidating hundreds of felony convictions, Zane Sparling reports for The Oregonian. .

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JURIST

MAY 3, 2024

” Both the Payment and Gift Provisions carry a Class B or C felony penalty. ”According to the Alabama Secretary of State , there were 305,663 absentee votes cast in the 2020 General Election, making up 13.1% Other challenged provisions include the Prefilling Provision and the Submission Provision. of the total votes cast.

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The Crime Report

JULY 9, 2021

A new law in Georgia is tackling the issues of porch piracy and mail theft by classifying certain degrees of the crimes as felonies, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The stiffer penalties are intended to deter thieves that, according to State Rep. Postal Inspector suspected were an actual theft.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2023

The US Secret Service Wednesday released a report that investigated 173 mass attacks from 2016 to 2020. For 29 percent of the attacks involving firearms, the perpetrator would have been federally disqualified from purchasing a firearm for current or previous felony convictions, domestic violence records, or a history of mental health issues.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Friedman was found guilty of vandalism in 2020, a Class A felony, after being caught on camera impersonating a construction contractor, stealing two keys and hiding three firearms and numerous saws and razor blades in the city’s Downtown Detention Center.

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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.”. felonies fell by 15 percent?helped violent felonies per million rides, it was still 3.1

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

The plea deal was weighed as appropriate to dismiss the felony charges, given Black’s willingness to cooperate in the case.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

In Brooklyn, 30 out of 173 hate crime arrests led to hate crime convictions between 2015 and 2020, while the number was 15 out of 110 in Queens and 3 out of 30 in Staten Island. More than 60 crimes fall under the hate crime statute in New York, from simple menacing to possession of a biological weapon.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Fifteen Massachusetts police officers had their certifications suspended by The Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission on Tuesday for violating commission standards by being arrested, charged with or indicted for a felony, Susannah Sudborough reports for Boston.com. .

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Above The Law

MARCH 29, 2024

The Guardian ] * Meanwhile, white Republican who believes 2020 election was stolen voted repeatedly over the years despite multiple felony sentences. Because YOLO. Somehow there will be an effort to make this a "both sides do it" story. Washington Post ] * Diddy's lawyers think those DHS raids were excessive.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Despite roundly debunked claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, lawmakers in 42 states have proposed laws trying to tackle the perceived criminal voting wave by proposing new crimes, agencies and criminal penalties.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 2, 2021

West Hazleton, Pennsylvania Police Chief Brian Buglio has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation after making threats in March 2020 to a private citizen, telling the person that he would pursue false felony charges in retaliation for several social media posts that were directed at him and the police, reports the New York Times.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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. The tampering charge was the barrier for voting eligibility because she was serving seven years of probation.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Nikki Tierney, a Middletown, New Jersey, mother who suffered from a drug and alcohol dependency that resulted in her arrest, charges of third-degree felony child endangerment, and loss of custody, was a catalyst for the change.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Prosecutors have been aided by a 2020 Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruling that held women can be charged with child neglect for using drugs during pregnancy, a felony that can carry up to a life sentence.

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The Crime Report

JULY 1, 2021

In 2020, 72 of California’s largest cities reported an overall decline in crime by an average of seven percent, following a generally falling rate of property and violent crime, according to a research report published by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. California has seen an 80 percent decline in crime from 2010 to 2020.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Rapper Daystar Shemuel Shua Peterson, known professionally as Tory Lanez, was convicted of three felony charges on Tuesday in Los Angeles after an altercation in July 2020 between Lanez and rapper Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, known as Megan Thee Stallion, which ended with Lanez shooting Megan Thee Stallion in her feet several times, Mary Louise Kelly and (..)

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

He later cast an absentee ballot in the 2020 pres­id­en­tial elec­tion. In 2018, Flor­idi­ans approved the Voting Restor­a­tion Amend­ment, known as Amend­ment 4, which aimed to restore voting rights to most state resid­ents with past felony convic­tions who have completed their sentences.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2021

Eight years later, an immigration judge found that his California conviction for driving under the influence was an aggravated felony under the federal immigration laws. Ashcroft that, under the relevant federal statute, DUI convictions like Palomar-Santiago’s are not aggravated felonies.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 28, 2022

But a Buffalo News investigation found that that few people released without a judge setting bail are being rearrested for violent felonies. Of that 5,092 cases, only 120 people were rearrested on a violent felony charge while their original case against them remained open. . percent for a nonviolent felony charge, and 2.8

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

New York City’s commitment can also be seen in the major passage of bail reform bills from 2020 that aimed to reduce the use of pretrial detention. For the charges, the dashboard shows categories of misdemeanor offenses, non-violent felonies, violent felonies, and unknown charges.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2021

Further, penalties would not increase to the felony level with subsequent arrests. A recent poll found that “68% of Louisianans support decriminalizing marijuana use and possession,” a nine percent increase relative to 2020. Across the nation, nearly 30 states and Washington, D.C.

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Law 360

JUNE 9, 2022

PG&E pled not guilty Thursday to four felony involuntary manslaughter charges, and 27 other charges, for its role in allegedly causing the Zogg fire, which burned roughly 56,000 acres in two California counties in 2020, according to the Shasta County District Attorney's Office.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Since the policy was enacted in June of 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, court appearance rates and rearrest rates have remained steady or dropped since zero-bail policies have been put in place. The trend has only continued.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 8, 2022

Strong , the Supreme Court today gives more defendants who were convicted of felony murder years ago a chance to seek lesser sentences under 2018 legislation — Senate Bill No. 1437 — that, the court explained, “significantly narrowed the scope of the felony-murder rule” and provided for some resentencing.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

But a report released Wednesday by the Manhattan Institute found that the rate of felonies per million subway rides nearly doubled from 1.45 Between 2020 and 2021, subway ridership rose 19 percent — yet violent felonies also continued to rise, by 8 percent. in 2019 to 2.71 No Safety in Numbers.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. Federal Government 5%. Each office and District is unique and will vary.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2022

Last year, charges were filed against juveniles in about 50 percent of all cases brought by police, according to data provided by the state’s attorney’s office, up from 39 percent in 2020 and 34 percent in 2019. Of all the juvenile cases presented to prosecutors last year, 10 percent were offered a diversion.

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The Crime Report

JULY 14, 2022

Of the nearly 100,000 people charged but released pretrial in 2020 under New York’s reformed policy, about one-fifth were rearrested while their first case was pending. Two percent were rearrested for a violent felony, though originally released state data inflated both numbers.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

Jeff King, police chief in Farmington Hills, MI, reports that in the first quarter of 2020, his city has seen a 45.9 percent increase in violent crime, most significantly with aggravated/felony and sexual assaults. Based on data provided by the FBI, the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

This was followed by California’s Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which reduced six felony offenses to misdemeanors and lowered the population eligible for prison and more extended felony probation terms. By 2020, the state had cut the number of people in prison by nearly half. New York City Considers Abolition.

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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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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2022

In 2020, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court commenced a mass trial against 139 activists and supporters of the former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) charged with conspiracy to commit treason and incitement to commit felony over their involvement in non-violent political activities.

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