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Only 15% of NYC Hate Crime Charges End in Conviction

The Crime Report

Among the city’s five district attorneys, this rate ranged from a high of 23 percent in Manhattan to just 1 percent in the Bronx, where just a single hate crime arrest out of a total of 92 resulted in a hate crime conviction since District Attorney Darcel Clark took control of the office in 2016.

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Can the ‘War’ on Gun Violence Learn From the Mistakes of the War on Drugs?

The Crime Report

For decades, attorneys, activists, academics, and even judges have openly critiqued the War on Drugs and its associated harsh enforcement policies such as mandatory minimum sentencing. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions. The full paper can be accessed here. .

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

The Volokh Conspiracy

On the latest episode of Unpublished Opinions , IJ's roundtable podcast: Things get heated when opening the Bluebook, secrets are dished about dictionaries, and the team ponder what it's all about when it comes to public interest law. Man with two Ohio felony convictions from the early 1990s turns his life around, gets a Ph.D.,

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.)

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

The remaining 97 percent have been decided by plea bargain: an arrangement made between a prosecutor, defense attorney, judge, and the defendant under which an individual enters a guilty or no contest plea in exchange for a reduction in the level of a charge, a reduced number of charges, or the recommendation of a lighter sentence.

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The Non-Denial Denial: David Weiss and Prosecutorial Nihilism

JonathanTurley

As expected, Weiss refused to answer most of the questions, but seemed perfectly Nietzschean in explaining obvious conflicts between the accounts of whistleblowers and the Attorney General. Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law.

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Sparse oral argument calendars with many old cases waiting

At the Lectern

Horvitz & Levy is co-counsel for amicus UC Irvine law schools Consumer Law Clinic.) The court sent its oral argument letter in December 2023, but the case won’t be calendared until May at the earliest because the court has found good cause for one attorneys request not to set the case for argument in April.