JURIST

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A Jackson County, Michigan, Jury Wednesday convicted Joseph Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar for felony charges related to their 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer from her summer home. . In August 2022, a federal jury convicted Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. of conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer and related charges.

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CourtTechBulletin

JUNE 20, 2022

1, 2022, 3:00 p.m. In addition, the New Mexico criminal statutes impose felony penalties for illegal bribes, gratuities, and kickbacks. RFP packets will not be faxed. Proposals must be received by Aug. The Procurement Code, Sections 13-1-1 to 13-1-199 (NMSA 1978), imposes civil and criminal penalties for its violation.

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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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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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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

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

AUGUST 6, 2023

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. The US Supreme Court refused to hear a similar case challenging Section 241 in 2022.

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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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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

One of the main components of House Bill 5 is its three-strikes provision, which would have people convicted of three violent felonies face life in prison. The bill also toughens penalties for the distribution of fentanyl, classifies carjacking as a Class B felony, and bans street camping.

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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

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

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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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In Alabama, lawmakers have refiled a previously unsuccessful felony ban on health care for trans minors. Republicans in Arizona and Kentucky have also proposed health care bans for trans youth, similar to a law passed last year in Arkansas that bans gender-affirming care for trans minors.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In South Carolina and five other states, legislators managed to promote existing ‘voter crimes’ from misdemeanors to felonies, in a move that may intimidate voters.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Over the past two decades, while states around the country have done the opposite, Tennessee has made it more difficult for residents convicted of felonies to get their right to vote back.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Commission on Civil Rights releasing a January 2022 report on the civil rights implications of cash bail finding that between 1970 and 2015, there was a 433 percent increase in the number of individuals who have been detained pre-trial. The issue the law is hoping to tackle is a national one, with the U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

cities experienced saw a shooting between 2011 and 2020, in contrast to the 1970s in New York, when about 30 percent of blocks experienced a violent felony. Why the FBI Can’t Tell Us , by Richard Rosenfeld, The Crime Report , Oct 11, 2022. For example, around 6 percent of city blocks in U.S. Download the op ed here.

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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

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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