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SCOTUS Holds “Hot Pursuit” for Misdemeanors Doesn’t Always Justify Warrantless Entry into Home

Constitutional Law Reporter

California, 594 U.S. _ (2021) , the U.S. It held that, under the Fourth Amendment , the pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always (or categorically) qualify as an exigent circumstance justifying a warrantless entry into a home. The State charged Lange with the misdemeanor of driving under the influence.

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Rittenhouse Goes To Jury After Case Collapses in Court

JonathanTurley

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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Susanna Gibson Alleges that Critics Committed a “Sex Crime” In Exposing Her Alleged Streaming of Sex Acts

JonathanTurley

Watkins, a lawyer for Gibson, supported her claim of a criminal violation, citing the state’s revenge porn law. As shown below, the law makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to “maliciously” distribute nude or sexual images of another person with “intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate.” The Criminal Allegation Daniel P.

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The Designated Defendant: Was Hunter Biden Always the Fall Guy?

JonathanTurley

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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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The Supreme Court called the appellate court’s conclusion that there are always reasonable legal alternatives to disobeying constitutional laws “untenable,” and held that “reasonable legal alternatives” must be effective. July 15, 2021). Conservation Law Foundation v. July 1, 2021). July 19, 2021).

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Ragefully Wrong: A Response to Professor Laurence Tribe

JonathanTurley

Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutional law or tradition. Even though a federal court and even Democrats admitted that Clinton committed the crime of perjury, Tribe assured Democrats that it fell entirely outside of the constitutional standard of a high crime and misdemeanor.