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Ohio grand jury declines to charge woman with abuse of corpse after at-home miscarriage

JURIST

The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse. Watts had initially been charged with felony abuse of a corpse in October after Warren County police found the remains of her pregnancy in her toilet and trash.

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Texas Supreme Court places hold on lower court order allowing woman to obtain an abortion

JURIST

” The court did this after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted a Petition for Writ of Mandamus with the court in response to the TRO. ” Texas law provides that performing an abortion is a felony punishable by up to life in prison unless the patient qualifies under a very narrow set of exceptions.

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Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft

Constitutional Law Reporter

He was subsequently charged with healthcare fraud, as well as aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. A jury found Dubin guilty of one charge of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. The aggravated identity theft charge added a mandatory two-year prison sentence on top of the healthcare fraud charges.

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Supreme Court will decide appeal timeliness issue

At the Lectern

” In dismissing the fair housing claims, the superior court had relied on the opinion in AIDS Healthcare Foundation v. ” The dissenter said she was “confounded by [the superior court’s] failure to try more [felony trials for in-custody defendants] after fully reopening in June 2021.”

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Supreme Court once again considers the “categorical approach” to sentencing enhancements

SCOTUSBlog

And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. Justice Neil Gorsuch filed an opinion dissenting from the denial of cert , arguing that the court’s 1970 decision in Williams v. Kentucky ex rel.

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Restrictions on gender-affirming medical care – and assault weapons

SCOTUSBlog

Finally, there is a lengthy list of particular models that fall within the scope of the statute, notably all “AK” weapons (modeled after the Russian AK-47) and all “AR” weapons (those modeled after the AR-15). When Medrano was arrested, he invoked his Miranda rights and told police he wanted to speak to an attorney. Until next time!

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