JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

in Robertson’s car on the morning of January 6, 2021. Attorney Matthew M. The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Now, Robertson and Fracker must serve 87 months in prison, complete 36 months supervised release and pay restitution of $2,000.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

In 1990, 26 people were murdered, prompting then-New York City Transit Police Chief William Bratton to implement a subway policing policy that interdicted people committing nonviolent misdemeanors, such as entering the subway without paying. NYPD routinely confiscated handguns and knives from people committing misdemeanors on the subways.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

Additional reading: Truth, Lies and Plea Bargaining , The Crime Report, July 23, 2021. Somil Trivedi is Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project. Plea bargaining also exacerbates the rampant, original-sin racial disparities in the system. Rebecca Brown is Policy Director of the Innocence Project.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Pardon Attorney, in the introduction to the report. Take Alaska , for example, which the report ranks as the lowest-performing state in terms of nearly every law category analyzed — receiving “F” grades for pardoning, felony relief, misdemeanor relief, certificates of relief, employment, and occupational licensing laws. Washington D.C.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

Participation in Yolo County’s drug court is down 86 percent since 2014, with data provided by the county showing that fewer than 12 percent of people referred to the county’s Health and Human Services Agency answered an initial phone call to establish a treatment plan in the first six months of 2021.

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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). A recent study published by Brandon del Pozo (the former Burlington, Vt. Polling in Portland, Ore.,

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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. It is either the product of systemic errors or systemic racism. Prosecution’s bumpy start, and finish.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

55-8-136, which is a Class C misdemeanor, the statute of limitations for plaintiff’s action was extended to two years pursuant to Tenn. 28, 2021), plaintiff was injured in a car accident with defendant in September 2017. Code Ann. § Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(2). In Younger v. Okbahhanes , No. E2020-00429-COA-R10-CV (Tenn.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vivar (2021) 11 Cal.5th The issue for the appellate court to now decide concerns whether a plaintiff substituting into a Private Attorneys General Act case can seek civil penalties for labor law violations occurring before the substitution. Joseph Health System (2021) 11 Cal.5th Joseph Health System (2021) 11 Cal.5th

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At the Lectern

MARCH 24, 2022

The Second District, Division Six, Court of Appeal’s unpublished opinion in Nelson affirmed the dismissal of an action against the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s and District Attorney’s offices for, among other things, malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and negligence. California (2021) 141 S.Ct. Lange (Oct.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

But police have issued citations for violations of the orders as recently as July 2021, records show. 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 Louis Post-Dispatch. “I

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Under the 2019 law, judges must release those charged with misdemeanors or most nonviolent felonies on their own recognizance or under “non-monetary conditions.” For those released on their own recognizance, re-arrest rates decreased from 18 percent to 16 percent by 2021.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Just 3 percent of the about 1,500 people arrested on misdemeanor trespassing charges since July, 2021 have been convicted, all via guilty pleas. County attorney offices working on Operation Lone Star have just a few staffers who are accustomed to small caseloads. As of Nov.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

In June of 2021, the IIP launched its Beyond Big Cities Initiative with several discussions about restorative justice in smaller communities. . The Pine County’s Probation Department collaborates with experts in the program to work with juveniles that have been charged with misdemeanors and felonies that are not homicides or sex crimes. .

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Having up to 4 ounces of flower marijuana is a misdemeanor. Republican Comal County District Attorney Jennifer Tharp said her office doesn’t accept drug cases without first looking for lab results. Similar bills failed in 2021, but it’s unclear how they will fare in the ongoing legislative session that ends in May.

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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. She called the practice “highly inappropriate.”

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The Crime Report

MARCH 29, 2022

7, 2021, the Huletts sat across from Bevan in that state attorney’s office in Tampa for a meeting integral to the restorative justice process they had embraced. Their attorney, Anthony Rickman , said the Huletts wanted justice for their son. Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren. Instead, on Oct.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A judge ordered that it be given to the attorney on the condition that it not be released to anyone else. A month after Lucas left the facility in April 2019, Lauren Hand was charged with two misdemeanors and a petty offense for unlawful possession of a controlled substance, official misconduct and theft.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

where the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal, in a published opinion , affirmed almost $170,000 in attorneys fees after a jury awarded less than $22,000 for a violation of the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (commonly known as the “lemon law”) in the sale of a used car. 22, 2021, No. HNL Automotive Inc.

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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. The tropes are about gun violence and an increase in gun violence somehow being related to bail reform, said Fontier. That is what is happening.”.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Last year, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was reelected in Chicago, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner won a second term in the city of St. Louis with 74 percent of the vote, District Attorney Mark Dupree earned another term in Kansas City, Kan.,, and State Attorney Andrew Warren was given four more years in Tampa, Fla.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton is among a small group of district attorneys working to dial back decades of tough-on-crime approaches. Statistics on her roughly 100-attorney staff shared with The Imprint show that in 2017, 43 percent were women. Photo by Ashleigh Reddy.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. She locked into a debate with the man’s public defender about the concept of mass incarceration, which she does not believe in.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In most states, violating the CAP law is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is a slap on the wrist. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? The spike in gun purchases has continued into 2021. Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman, defense attorneys for the parents, said in a Dec. McDonald said.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 18, 2022

a)(2) requires written complaints of police misconduct to be accompanied by signed acknowledgements that filing a knowingly false complaint can lead to a misdemeanor prosecution. USA Taekwondo (2021) 11 Cal.5th Penal Code section 148.6 (a)(2) Stanistreet (2002) 29 Cal.4th ” ( Chaker v. ” (See here.) In People v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

After failing to respond to a congressional subpoena, Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress in November 2021. The statute under which he was convicted makes it a misdemeanor to “willfully” fail to respond to a subpoena. “It The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

According to his 2021 memoir , during the period when foreign companies were clamoring to give him millions of dollars, he was “drinking a quart of vodka a day” and “smoking crack around the clock.” He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Indeed, in 2021 Swalwell sponsored a resolution exploring whether dozens of Republican colleagues could be expelled under the 14th Amendment for aiding and abetting an insurrection by “making unsubstantiated claims of systematic election and voter fraud.” Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Like the argument calendar for January 2021 , the session is relatively light: It is slated to feature eight hours of argument over six days, but with the very real prospect that two cases will be removed from the calendar if President-elect Joe Biden changes the controversial policies at the heart of the disputes after taking office next month.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

6, 2021 , Donald Trump sat in the White House watching a riot unfold at the Capitol. Still, although Turley may not be someone to worry about; Attorney General Merrick Garland is. In fact, what Attorney General Garland is doing—doing covertly—is arranging a peremptory pardon for Donald Trump. Earlier on the afternoon of Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2025

6, 2021, Capitol riot, the roughly 1,500 pardons Trump issued on his first day produced familiar reactions from politicians and pundits. 31, 2023, to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. Walton, a Bush appointee who had previously called Trump a charlatan, had before him a typical Jan.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

All of the three main players — Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Special Counsel Jack Smith — will face immediate challenges in the legal arms race unfolding in Washington. 6, 2021, Capitol riot to the Mar-a-Lago documents controversy.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

He attacked former Attorney General Bill Barr’s religion and thrills his followers by referring to Trump as a “Dick” or “dickhead in chief.” Tribe even declared Trump guilty of the attempted murder of Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021. Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutional law or tradition.

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