The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

This year’s rich harvest brings the total number of criminal record reforms enacted in the past three years to over 400 separate laws,” the report said, celebrating what it said was a bipartisan commitment to end “unwarranted discrimination” against the formerly incarcerated. not disenfranchising at all).

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether Arizona’s sentencing law for juvenile offenders convicted of first-degree murder violates Miller because, although the law allows for the possibility of release, the state abolished parole for homicide in 1994. In Bassett v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 10, 2022

Since 2015 Congress has attached a rider to its appropriations bills barring the Department of Justice from using funds “to prevent [states] from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.” These and other petitions of the week are below: Arizona v. Navajo Nation.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 30, 2011

The DOJ appears to be backtracking on medical marijuana, now saying only that it won't prosecute individuals who use medical marijuana, but that dispensaries, even if set up under the color of state laws, are still illegal under Federal law and subject to Federal prosecution. Broadcasters are Federal licensees.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

That, the justices said, violated the Constitution’s requirement that Congress provide “uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.” Smith was charged with five felony counts. Arizona Department of Public Safety forensic scientist Elizabeth Rast tested the drugs found in the search. Does the U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2022

On our Broadcast Law Blog, we wrote last week about the FCC’s current role in regulating the Internet ( Blog Post ). But, because a party pledged to file for it in the next FM auction filing window, the FCC did not delete a vacant allotment at Snowflake, Arizona.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Arizona on Tuesday blocked provisions of a restrictive Arizona abortion bill from taking effect. The Arizona legislature enacted SB 1457 in April 2021. Pregnant people who seek abortion in these cases would be subject to up to 8.75 years in prison.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

The Lacey Act makes it a federal crime to break the wildlife laws of any state, tribe, or foreign country, in interstate commerce. If convicted of a felony, the maximum penalty is $20,000 and/or up to five years imprisonment. Under the common law, there is strict liability for injuries caused by wild animals in your possession.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely extended a stay blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later stayed that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Monday that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is normally a federal matter. The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses.

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JURIST

APRIL 4, 2024

New York’s Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill to repeal a largely unused law from 1907 that made adultery a criminal offense. Senate Bill S8744 repeals New York Penal Law Section 255.17. ” The law stated that the offense was a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to three months imprisonment.

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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. carte blanche to avoid accountability for abandoning enforcement of immigration laws.” Such aliens belong in federal custody, as Congress required.

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JURIST

MAY 20, 2022

The Oklahoma legislature on Thursday passed its third major abortion-ban law in a little over a month. However the incest and sexual assault expectations apply only if those incidents were reported to law enforcement. . The bill will now go to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt , who is expected to sign it into law.

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JURIST

APRIL 28, 2022

SB 612 made abortion and any attempt at an abortion a felony with punishments including fines and jail time. Unlike Texas’ 6-week abortion ban and Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban, the new Oklahoma law SB1503 implements a near-total ban, with only medical emergency exceptions.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has deviated from that by holding that enablement is a question of law that courts review without deference. The Department of the Interior , joined by intervenor the state of Arizona , seek the Supreme Court’s review to revisit that determination. Navajo Nation and Arizona v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Judge Priscilla Richman wrote separately to say that although “there is undeniably a split among circuit courts” on this issue, Dubin’s actions came within the statute’s literal prohibition against “us[ing], without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person.”. Arizona , 21-1553. 14 conferences). Khorrami v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Petitioner Ramin Khorrami was convicted of fraud in Arizona state court by an eight-person jury. 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. Arizona , 21-1553. Seeking to capitalize on Ramos , in Khorrami v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

For many years thereafter, the Arizona Supreme Court refused to apply Simmons. That court believed that Arizona’s sentencing law was sufficiently different from the others the Supreme Court had considered that Simmons did not apply. Arizona , 21-846 , and Burns v. The Arizona Supreme Court denied Cruz’s claim.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Fitisemanu and the Tulis argue that the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, embraced the founding-era common-law understanding of birthright citizenship. Arizona , 21-1553. 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.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

An Arizona Senate committee Thursday voted in favor of a bill that prohibits abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The bill comes amidst the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Mississippi’s abortion law, which has the potential to drastically transform abortion rights in the US. The bill will soon move to a second reading.

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JURIST

JULY 1, 2022

The US Supreme Court on Thursday vacated three orders issued by lower courts in Arizona, Indiana, and Arkansas that had invalidated state-level abortion on the grounds of Roe v. This law was challenged in Brnovich v. Rutledge enjoined three laws that banned abortion in various circumstances.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Experts say that domestic disturbance calls like this one represent one of the most dangerous situations police can respond to and that, of the 503 officers nationwide who were feloniously killed between 2011 and 2020, 43 (8.3 percent) officers were feloniously killed while responding to domestic disturbance or domestic violence calls.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2025

In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution generally permits states to strip people convicted of felonies of their right to vote. Felony disenfranchisement has a long, and often racist, history. Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2025

Flores-Ruiz was previously deported and then entered again illegally, a federal felony. He was issued an I-860 Notice and Order of Expedited Removal on January 16, 2013, and Flores-Ruiz was removed to Mexico through the Nogales, Arizona, port of entry. ” She yielded to the temptation to “become a law unto herself.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With their status as sanctuary cities, housing, law enforcement and social programming costs will continue to rise. However, the federal government is not required to spend money on services where costs are rising at least in part because of resistance to federal law. Many of those budgets are heavily infused with federal funding.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. Prosecutors conceded that Medrano was not actually at the scene of the crime. A Florida state court upheld Cunningham’s conviction.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2024

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced on Wednesday that a state grand jury returned an indictment against 18 individuals associated with former US President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn Arizona’s election results in the 2020 presidential election. All nine counts are felony offenses in the state of Arizona.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. South Dakota Federal Court Granted Preliminary Injunction Against Enforcement of Laws Targeting Pipeline Protesters. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Yesterday, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes became the latest Democratic prosecutor to suggest a possible criminal charge against former President Donald Trump. Threatening or intimidating pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 is a class 1 misdemeanor, except that it is a class 6 felony if: 1.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Stefanie Lindquist Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University, answers critical questions including: does an indictment – or even a felony conviction – prevent a presidential candidate from running or serving in office?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

Plaintiffs, including the Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF), argued that the state law was preempted by federal immigration law. This case highlights the ongoing tension between state immigration laws and federal preemption, as well as the judiciarys role in navigating these complex legal issues. unlawfully.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Last year, Tennessee and Kentucky were among a group of more than 20 states that enacted laws that prohibit giving transgender youths under the age of 18 medical treatment to align their appearance with their gender identity. Federal district courts in both states granted the challengers’ requests to block the laws from going into effect.

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