The Crime Report

OCTOBER 17, 2023

According to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Friday, a woman gave birth to her son in an Alabama jail shower on Oct. Caswell is now serving a 15-year sentence for felony endangerment in Julia Tutwiler Prison in Wetumpka, Alabama.

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The Crime Report

MAY 25, 2023

The Alabama Senate has unanimously approved Senate Bill 143, aimed at imposing enhanced penalties on individuals involved in criminal enterprises, Caleb Taylor reports for 1819 News. The bill, introduced by State Sen.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It becomes more difficult to pursue parole if you have been convicted of Class A felonies.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 28, 2021

Carroll of the University of Alabama School of Law. Superior Court on felony charges as of mid-June. Although prison populations declined during the pandemic’s early days, they crept back up because fewer prisoners have been released, said Prof. Some 582 people were detained awaiting trial in D.C.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

Pardons are also the only state relief mechanism in America recognized by federal immigration law that would allow “a non-citizen convicted of an aggravated felony to avoid mandatory deportation and remove the conviction-related bar to citizenship.”. The full report can be accessed here.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 10, 2022

Police in Mobile, Alabama, obtained a warrant to search a home, its owner, and a long list of objects (not including purses) because the home’s owner sold methamphetamine to a confidential informant. Powers was arrested and convicted of intent to distribute and possession of meth. In Powers v. United States.

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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Arizona also repealed a law authorizing suspension of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and authorized its courts to redesignate some felonies as misdemeanors, the report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. . We have come a long way in the past five years, but there is still a long way to go.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

The statute was amended in 1950 to remove burglary from the list, and in 1968 it was amended to add rape and murder, in part because a federal civil rights commission noted the omission of such serious felonies from the list. Alabama , she contends that it was error not to receive the newly proffered mitigating evidence.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Department of Justice: The felony conviction of an Alabama doctor who prescribed fentanyl in quantities so immense he may have influenced a drugmaker's stock price. It seemed like a marquee win for the U.S. But as U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alabama —a decision finding that sentencing juvenile offenders to a mandatory life without parole for homicide offenses also violates the cruel and unusual punishment provisions of the 8 th Amendment. Two years after Graham , the Supreme Court decided yet another juvenile justice case, Miller v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Since 1986, bankruptcy cases in Alabama or North Carolina have been administered by trustees appointed by the judicial branch, while all other cases have been administered by the U.S. But the Alabama and North Carolina trustees had charged much less than fees charged in other states, with the deficit coming out of the judiciary budget.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Alabama , the Supreme Court declared that mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenders who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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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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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Alabama , which held that sentencing juvenile offenders to a mandatory life without parole sentence for homicide offenses also violated the cruel and unusual punishment provisions of the 8th Amendment. Two years after Graham , the Supreme Court decided yet another juvenile justice case, Miller v.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” Local newspaper publisher Sherry Digmon and reporter Don Fletcher were arrested in Atmore, Alabama on October 27 and accused of revealing information about a grand jury investigation related to the Escambia County School Board. ” Abuse of grand jury information is a felony under Alabama law.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2022

The Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCCPA) Sunday went into effect in Alabama while US District Judge Liles Burke considers legal challenges from doctors and families with transgender children. Conviction under the Act is a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $15,000.00.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2022

Two doctors joined two parents on behalf of their minor children to file a complaint Tuesday in federal court against the governor and the district attorneys of Alabama, Shelby County, and Jefferson County, to block Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (“VCCPA”) from going into effect on May 8, 2022.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A federal judge in Alabama declined on Tuesday to stay a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCCPA). In other words, it prevents people within Alabama from providing gender-affirming care to minors.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

Alabama is on track to pass a bill that would make providing any gender-affirming treatment for transgender youth a felony. ” This decision comes amidst a wave of transgender-rights cases currently ongoing across the US.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2021

The Alabama Senate passed the controversial anti-trans SB10 Bill on Tuesday, effectively prohibiting the performance of gender affirming medical treatment on minors. The Bill, which shall be called the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, was introduced by Senator Shay Shelnutt and passed with a vote of 23-4.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Instead, Defendants have issued and implemented unlawful agency memoranda that allow criminal aliens already convicted of felony offenses to roam free in the United States. Such aliens belong in federal custody, as Congress required. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

A handful of states — Alabama, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, according to the advocacy group MAP — make it a felony to provide gender-affirming care to youths.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2024

A handful of states — Alabama, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, according to the advocacy group MAP — make it a felony to provide gender-affirming care to youths. The post Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for minors appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

MAY 3, 2024

A coalition of rights groups led by the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP filed a lawsuit Friday challenging four provisions of Alabama Senate Bill 1 , Act No. The case is in the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama. ” Both the Payment and Gift Provisions carry a Class B or C felony penalty.

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JURIST

MAY 2, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday filed a complaint challenging an Alabama law that criminalizes some medical treatments for transgender youth. It alleges t he law’s felony ban on certain medically necessary care violates the Fourteenth Amendment and asks for an immediate order stopping the law from taking effect.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 22, 2023

“Appeals court upholds Alabama’s felony ban on minors’ gender-affirming care; Three Trump appointees reversed an injunction blocking the law, allowing the ban to go into effect; Florida and Georgia rulings now in jeopardy”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

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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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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Then, in 1963, a young Becton watched as police in Birmingham, Alabama used high-powered water hoses and dogs to attack Black people fighting for equal rights. Becton’s office filed felony charges against Andrew Hall, a white Danville police officer and sheriff’s deputy, for the on-duty killing of Laudemer Arboleda.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday that Alabama would immediately ask the court to strike down “any legal barriers to enforcing” a 2019 law, HB314, that makes performing an abortion a felony. Alabama’s Attorney General was granted an emergency motion to dissolve an injunction against the law on Friday afternoon.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The justices also agreed to take up a pair of cases involving the Armed Career Criminal Act, which extends the minimum sentence – from 10 years to 15 – for an individual who had been convicted of a felony and possesses a firearm when that person has at least three “serious drug offenses.” Last year the U.S.

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