Alabama Court Misdemeanor 
JURIST
APRIL 26, 2024
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 to pass HB 385 , which prohibits public libraries from providing materials that are “harmful to minors” or “obscene.” ” The bill, which passed on Thursday, will now go to the Alabama Senate. In the US Supreme Court case Miller v.
JURIST
JUNE 14, 2022
Members of white supremacist group Patriot Front Monday were released from jail on bond after being charged with conspiracy to riot , a misdemeanor. Those arrested included men from 13 states, including Michigan, Texas, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri.
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The Crime Report
JULY 2, 2021
More than 70 million people in this country—one in three adults—have a criminal record, with roughly 45 million having a misdemeanor conviction. One study in Alabama found that more than 80 percent of people gave up things like food, rent, medical bills, car payments, and child support to pay down their court debt.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 20, 2024
Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A trial court in Arizona agreed that Bassett was entitled to a hearing. On appeal, however, the Arizona Supreme Court denied Bassett’s request for a hearing and dismissed his petition for post-conviction relief.
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Arizona also repealed a law authorizing suspension of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and authorized its courts to redesignate some felonies as misdemeanors, the report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. .
The Crime Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
But in a recent podcast interview with a pair of east county campaign supporters, Knox described her opposition to new state laws and court rulings that provide greater leniency for juvenile offenders, including her concerns that California now offers a chance to teens sentenced to life without parole. That image lives in me,” Becton said.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
AUGUST 4, 2021
Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.
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