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US authorities charge Michigan police member over fatal fugitive arrest operation

JURIST

Michigan State Police Detective Sergeant Brian Keeley was charged on Tuesday with second degree murder or involuntary manslaughter of Samuel Sterling by Michigan Attorney General. Alternatively, Keeley has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, which is a felony with a fifteen-year sentence.

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Children and Guns: Holding Parents Accountable

The Crime Report

You’re not legally required to store your weapon in a safe manner.” And, there are no federal laws mandating gun storage practices after the owner takes position of a legally purchased firearm. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? That’s much more than a slap on the wrist.

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The ‘Assembly-Line’ Justice of Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. This despite the fact that we know myriad innocent people charged with felonies plead guilty. Somil Trivedi is Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project.

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Trump v. Cohen Is Another Lawsuit About The Plaintiff-In-Chief Weaponizing Civil Litigation

The Crime Report

The civil lawsuit accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship by testifying as a key witness before a Manhattan grand jury, revealing “confidences” and “spreading falsehoods” which resulted in Trump being charged on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. As James D.

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The Final 187 minutes of a ‘Multi-Prong’ Criminal Conspiracy

The Crime Report

While a minority of legal pundits might still argue that there may not be enough evidence to prosecute Trump for seditious conspiracy, there can no longer be any doubt about Trump’s culpability for the criminal felonies of obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and witness tampering.

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A Criminal Case Fifty Years In The Making

The Crime Report

A very bold and impressive broad-gauged indictment that few, if any legal pundits, saw coming. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies. Carroll and Trump sought to combine the two legal cases into one, however, District Judge Lewis A. This lawsuit stems from two lawsuits filed by E.

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Here come the indictments. When will the trials come? Not before summer 2024

The Crime Report

We do know from reading the New York Times that the indictment contains 34 separate charges or “counts” including multiple felonies, which likely will involve some kind of tax violation or federal campaign crimes. This indictment has been a long time coming. It is un-American. DROP THIS SICK WITCH HUNT, NOW!

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