Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

Then, an opportunity came along to work for the County Public Defender’s Office, defending people in misdemeanor, felony, and now the only paralegal in the office on capital cases. In my office, we have had several cases we had to give to contract attorneys because of conflicts with co-defendants. Conflict Checks. Memorandums.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Oregon has the equivalent of 600 full-time court-appointed attorneys, who have historically shouldered about 75,000 adult criminal cases a year. In Multnomah County, the court system delayed more than 700 unrepresented misdemeanor cases and 800 unrepresented felony cases from February through mid-August.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 11, 2022

Philadelphia’s Accelerated Misdemeanor Program (AMP) requires a defendant to do 12-18 hours of community service and to pay court fees within 10 weeks of accepting the terms, expunging the case records of those who complete the program.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced that his office will dismiss roughly 60,000 marijuana convictions, the latest step to undo what some reform advocates consider the damage caused by narcotics enforcement carried out before Californians voted to legalize marijuana, reports the Los Angeles Times.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 18, 2022

New legal filings in Texas describe an ongoing and consistent pattern of men being illegally detained for a month or more as their cases stagnate in overwhelmed courts, reports Click2Houston.com.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 21, 2022

New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The new charges join the two previous charges filed against him in a federal court in Delaware. Biden now faces 11 charges in total—three felonies and eight misdemeanors. Weiss previously served as US Attorney for the District of Delaware and has been involved in investigations related to Biden’s case since 2019.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Massachusetts already allows the sealing and expungement of some juvenile records after a period of time, but advocates are quick to note that it’s limited, and people with juvenile records still struggle to get some charges removed, while other misdemeanors don’t qualify for expungement in Massachusetts. .

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“ Travis County judges can’t hear appeals from migrants arrested under Texas border security push, court rules ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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The Crime Report

JULY 29, 2022

Defense attorneys and prosecutors in Maine are skeptical that a so-called “trial blitz” planned for the fall will be enough to get Maine’s stalled criminal justice system moving again and accelerate the resolution of enough cases, reports the Bangor Daily News.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will be hosting a clinic in north Minneapolis this week to help eligible people get their criminal records wiped clean, Nafi Soumare reports for the Minnesota Reformer. To be eligible, people must remain crime free during a court-ordered “waiting period,” which can vary from zero to five years.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

this would constitute a criminal misdemeanor. Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this subsection shall be on information filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The case is in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas Austin Division. The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. Addressing the lawsuit, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta stated : SB 4 is clearly unconstitutional.

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The Paralegal Resource

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Many of those accused of crimes involving drugs and alcohol choose to roll the dice and face jail or prison, rather than embrace a healthy sober lifestyle when advised to do so by their attorneys and the Ventura, Los Angeles, and Orange County courts. High end rehabs can be a cushy alternative to jail.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

A Minnesota district court sentenced former police officer Kim Potter to two years in prison on Friday. The officers ran a search on Wright and discovered an arrest warrant for a missed court date. Later the same month, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a probe into the Minneapolis Police Department.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to the reports, which are the result of two years of research, New Mexico is short more than 600 full-time public defenders across adult and juvenile courts, whereas Oregon is short nearly 1,300 public defenders. Those standards are expected to be released in May, replacing metrics that have been in place for decades.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

There, local prosecutors in the county’s Early Disposition Courts make plea offers “substantially harsher”—their words—if people accused of crimes merely assert their constitutional rights during negotiation. In these courts, prosecutors withhold all discovery? Rebecca Brown is Policy Director of the Innocence Project.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. Attorney Matthew M. The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 1, 2022

In an experiment aimed at reducing chronic criminal behavior, the district attorney responsible for one of the country’s most violent neighborhoods has agreed to forego prosecutions for some non-violent offenses and place offenders under the responsibility of community organizations.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2022

One of those is Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj, who in now in middle of a controversy over an alleged misrepresentation of the criminal record of a felon in order to secure a lower sentence in a plea deal. Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge James Plowman removed Biberaj and her office from the case.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

In 1990, 26 people were murdered, prompting then-New York City Transit Police Chief William Bratton to implement a subway policing policy that interdicted people committing nonviolent misdemeanors, such as entering the subway without paying. NYPD routinely confiscated handguns and knives from people committing misdemeanors on the subways.

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MorneauLaw

MAY 20, 2023

Can I Record My Spouse or Co-Parent for Court? That leads many people to believe that a recording may help their parenting or divorce case in court. Not only will most recordings not be admitted as exhibits by a judge, but these recordings can also bring bigger consequences including criminal misdemeanor or felony charges.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

Participation in California’s drug courts decreased statewide by 67 percent between 2014 and 2018. In California, aignificantly fewer people are choosing to go to drug court, in part because the penalties for drug possession were reduced by the passage of Proposition 47 in 2014, reports KPVI.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

These reports are part of the Commission’s statutory mandate and provide vital information and analysis to attorneys, scholars and the public. Over the past 10 years alone, the Supreme Court has cited Commission reports in more than half-a-dozen cases. Congress abolished federal parole in 1984.) percent, 28.07 percent, and 64.94

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A federal judge is set to hear arguments December 19 over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson that the Justice Department says would continue the state’s long history of trying to suppress Black people’s right to participate in government, Emily Wagster Pettus reports for the Associated Press.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Pardon Attorney, in the introduction to the report. Take Alaska , for example, which the report ranks as the lowest-performing state in terms of nearly every law category analyzed — receiving “F” grades for pardoning, felony relief, misdemeanor relief, certificates of relief, employment, and occupational licensing laws. Washington D.C.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

The thousands of misdemeanor cases that some local prosecutors also handle every year — something they are not required by the state to do — are also not calculated into the state formula. The county Commonwealth’s Attorney, Steve T.

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The Crime Report

MAY 5, 2021

The Yolo County (California) District Attorney’s Office says they have been tracking people who were let out on zero-dollar bail and observed that almost half have been arrested again, reports FOX40. Since April 13, 2020, individuals released on $0 bail have committed over 908 new crimes in the county and 41.6

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Rittenhouse is facing six charges that range from first-degree homicide to a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. At this stage, the prosecution may celebrate even a misdemeanor conviction. It is either the product of systemic errors or systemic racism. Prosecution’s bumpy start, and finish.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Actor Jonathan Majors is set to go on trial Wednesday to face charges of misdemeanor assault and harassment for allegedly assaulting his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, during a car ride to his home, Jonah E. Manhattan district attorney Alvin L. Bromwich reports for the New York Times.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2023

this would more likely constitute a criminal misdemeanor. In Bowman’s case, the criminal act is captured on videotape, but it is also likely a misdemeanor. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. It could be a crime.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit handed down a major ruling in favor of the Second Amendment rights of ex-felons. While it is always risky to bet on granting of review before the Supreme Court, this en banc decision is well positioned for a Supreme Court showdown over the Second Amendment.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Shively continues: “Restorative justice is a lot more active; the court can feel a lot more passive for victims…So, talking through that level of fear as well as how close that young person was to potentially being killed…it really shows strong ability for rehabilitation. “The The legal system also discourages truth-telling,” she explains.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Actions of note at yesterday’s Supreme Court conference — a double one — included: Supreme Court denies writ petition against Court of Appeal for criminal case delay, but asks for Judicial Council study. The court granted review in People v. The court denied review in In re A.C. ,

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ALPS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Margaret Ogden serves as the Wellness Coordinator in the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, where she’s tasked with improving the mental health and wellbeing of Virginians in the legal profession through education, regulation and outreach. And we have a few other states that are doing that as well.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

55-8-136, which is a Class C misdemeanor, the statute of limitations for plaintiff’s action was extended to two years pursuant to Tenn. Defendant filed a motion for summary judgment based on the statute of limitations issue, but the trial court ruled in favor of plaintiff, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Code Ann. §

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At the Lectern

MARCH 24, 2022

There were no straight grants at the Supreme Court’s conference yesterday, with only six justices participating because newly confirmed Justice Patricia Guerrero has not yet been sworn in. Immunity for law enforcement : The court granted-and-held in Nelson v. will have to come from our Supreme Court, rather than from us.’

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