JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Pete Musico, Joseph Morrison and Paul Bellar were all sentenced in the Jackson County Circuit Court to separate prison terms after a jury found them guilty of felony charges in October. Bellar’s charges included support of terrorist acts, gang membership felonies and felony possession of a firearm. in August 2022.

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JURIST

JUNE 29, 2024

Further, it was stated that “[o]ut of the approximately 64,000 criminal cases reported to the Sentencing Commission in Fiscal Year 2022, more than 7600 involved convictions under Section 922(g)(1)…[t]hose convictions accounted for nearly 12 percent of all federal criminal cases.”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald announced charges against the Crumbley parents in 2022, stating: My only goal is to make sure that they know I am going to do everything possible to hold these three people accountable because their kids deserve that and I speak for my entire team. School shootings continue to be a problem in the US.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The president of a chemical company has been arraigned on multiple felony charges for allegedly mismanaging chemical waste at a Michigan production site, resulting in a 2022 oil and chemical spill in the Flint River.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“Unlawful carrying of a handgun” could also become a Level 5 felony under certain conditions. If passed by the Senate, the bill would become effective March 30, 2022. .” Prohibited individuals knowingly or intentionally carrying a handgun would be charged with a Class A misdemeanor.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The California law makes it a felony to manufacture, distribute, import, keep for sale or lend assault weapons. Benitez found that Califonia’s “extreme policy” violates the Second Amendment because it does not pass the test used in the 2022 Supreme Court case New York Rifle & Pistol Assn.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

For this action to be effective, the Senate would need to also vote on this bill to take the drug off Schedule I, which currently makes its possession and distribution (and the use of radio to promote it), a federal felony. Then the President would have to sign the bill.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

These stations have until May 5, 2022 to prepare and upload their responses to their online public files. A felony conviction involving lying to another government agency will normally trigger such a review. The FCC Enforcement Bureau this week announced its latest round of random EEO audits.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

Smiley Allen Martin, a suspect arrested in connection with the recent mass shooting in Sacramento, served less than half his 10-year sentence because of voter-approved changes to state law that lessened the punishment for his felony convictions and provided a chance for earlier release, reports the Associated Press.

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SquirePattonBoggs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A)(1), does not qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act (commonly referred to as “ACCA”). A)(1) did qualify as a violent felony under ACCA. 2022), the Sixth Circuit read Borden as requiring a purposeful or knowing mens rea for offenses deemed violent felony predicate offenses. . § 2911.01(A)(1),

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Arizona he asks the Supreme Court to overrule a 1970 precedent holding that states can use juries as small as six jurors to try defendants for felonies. Issue : Whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. 28 conference). Khorrami v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Judge Lee further pointed out that the injunctive relief class potentially includes thousands of protesters, ranging from those who weren’t arrested to others charged with felonies.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

On the same day, one man was sentenced to ten years in prison and a second pled guilty to felony charges. He is scheduled for sentencing on December 13, 2022. The DOJ charged an attorney for the Oath Keepers militia group with conspiracy and obstruction. Khater faces up to 20 years in prison and a potential fine of $250,000.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

Gardner pleaded guilty to “ felony charges of civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon,” according to a DOJ announcement. ” Gardner’s sentencing date is scheduled for October 21, 2022.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Measure 114 will close this loophole, allowing law enforcement time to complete background checks and preventing people with a criminal felony record, domestic violence conviction, stalking offense, or for any other disqualifying condition from buying a gun.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2022

The man who sold the gun used in an attack at a Texas synagogue on January 15, 2022, Thursday pled guilty to federal charges. Henry “Michael” Dwight Williams pled guilty to felony possession of a firearm. Williams sold a semiautomatic Taurus G2C pistol to Malik Faisal Akram, a British citizen. ” U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2022

In the case of a felony conviction, the FCC analyzes whether the crimes are so serious that the licensee does not have the character to serve the public as well as whether the crime is indicative of the licensee’s likelihood of not being truthful and forthcoming with the FCC.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2021

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced on Tuesday that going forward any Virginian convicted of a felony will automatically have their civil rights restored upon release from incarceration. ” Only two other states—Iowa and Kentucky—have constitutions that permanently disenfranchise citizens with past felony convictions.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 21, 2022

The current application for admission asks would-be lawyers whether they have, as an adult or juvenile, “been cited, ticketed, arrested, taken into custody, charged with, indicted, convicted or tried for, or pleaded guilty to,” a felony or misdemeanor. The Bar’s House of Delegates is scheduled to vote Jan.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 9, 2022

But, as we wrote on the Broadcast Law Blog, broadcasters as federal licensees should still steer clear of marijuana advertising unless and until the bill becomes law, even if marijuana has been legalized in the state in which they operate as, until then, it remains a felony under federal law. ( Broadcast Law Blog ).

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Riverside County Superior Court in California has dismissed three separate felony child sexual assault cases in one week due to the court’s inability to begin trials within the required timeframe, including one case so serious the defendant faced a possible life sentence, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 16, 2023

Division Three disagreed with the Second District, Division Seven, opinion in In re Brown (2022) 76 Cal.App.5th The cases concern resentencing a defendant whose felony-murder conviction is tossed under subsequent legislation narrowing the felony-murder rule. Moriana (2022) 596 U.S. __, __ [142 S.Ct. 15, 2022, No.

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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

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The Crime Report

MAY 12, 2022

The report, released in early March by the nonprofit Collateral Consequences Resource Center , studied laws aimed at restoring rights after incarceration, such as voting rights, felony and misdemeanor relief, non-conviction relief, and abilities to obtain employment and occupational licensing. It ranked Illinois as No.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

Arizona also repealed a law authorizing suspension of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and authorized its courts to redesignate some felonies as misdemeanors, the report details. . As we make our way through 2022, the CCRC researchers are optimistic about the changes to come. .

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Over the past five years, a series of reform bills, passed with bipartisan support from state legislators, led to a 21 percent decline in prison population—from 28,342 in 2017 to 22,341 in 2022— in a state which once had the highest incarceration rate in the country.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. She also said she didn’t know the facility security staff had been conducting investigations and determining whether patients had committed felonies that were then referred to the state’s attorney.

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2023

The Texas “ law of parties ” allow prosecutors to seek and secure the execution of individuals involved in what is more generally known as “felony murder” crimes—offenses that involve more than one person, all of whom can be prosecuted as equal participants even though one or more of the participants may have had no direct involvement in the murder.

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Mondaq

MAY 10, 2022

On May 2, 2022, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB 470, which amends provisions of Georgia's banking laws relating to the denial or revocation of a mortgage license or registration due to certain felony convictions.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Only three committed a felony crime against a person. ’s use of compassionate releases from October 2022, all but six states recorded below a B- with over half receiving F’s. Sixteen, or 2.3 percent, were convicted of any additional crimes over a three-year follow-up period. But most U.S.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 21, 2022

The first domestic violence fatalities of 2022, a murder-suicide, were rung up in the opening weeks of the new year, with at least four more occurring over the ensuing months. Victim advocates warn that cases of domestic violence are notoriously unreported, and fatalities capture only the most extreme cases.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

In Virginia, the minimum age to charge someone with a felony is 14 years old. There were 302 shootings in school property in 2022, more than in any other year since 1970. In many states, the legal system assumes that young children are not capable of the thought and planning that goes into committing a violent crime.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

1437 , 2018 legislation that allows resentencing of some defendants convicted of felony murder or murder under a natural-and-probable-consequences theory. The court granted the Attorney General’s petition for review in Curiel in January 2022. The opinion can be viewed Monday starting at 10:00 a.m.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Supreme Court granted certiorari on November 22, 2022. A jury found Dubin guilty of one charge of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. The justices agreed to consider “whether a person commits aggravated identity theft any time he mentions or otherwise recites someone else’s name while committing a predicate offense.”.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2023

Analyzing over 290,000 criminal cases from 2015 to 2022, the report demonstrates that Black individuals are overrepresented at every stage, including stops, arrests, and incarceration. Black Philadelphians face higher rates of felony charges, impacting bail, diversion eligibility, and sentencing. Black people are 1.5

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Five former correctional officers, and a former lieutenant, at the Southern Regional Jail in West Virginia have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the 2022 death of an incarcerated man who was beaten while handcuffed and restrained in an interview room and later a jail cell, Leah Willingham report for the Associated Press.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The trial of Kaitlin Armstrong, who is accused of murdering star cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson out of romantic jealousy on May 11, 2022, began in Texas Wednesday, Ethan Weinstein reports for VTDigger. Armstong has also been charged with felony escape after attempting to flee custody at the prison she is being held in.

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