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Children and Guns: Holding Parents Accountable

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In most states, violating the CAP law is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is a slap on the wrist. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? Michigan, where 35 percent of households own a firearm , doesn’t have a child access prevention law on its books. That may be what it takes.”.

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The ‘Assembly-Line’ Justice of Plea Bargaining

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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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MA Record Expungement Bill Offers ‘Fresh Start’ to Juveniles

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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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Garland Plays Chess, Trump Plays Checkers

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Trump was totally wrong and caught off guard by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Turns out Garland was playing chess and Trump and his attorneys were playing checkers. The new law upped the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony, and from a maximum of one year in jail to a maximum of five years in prison. Gregg Barak.

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A Criminal Case Fifty Years In The Making

The Crime Report

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes. And, ultimately, not the American people.”

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

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For example, in realpolitik we saw evidence of Trump’s victimhood of “rigged” elections starting to ebb in the defeat last week of Jim Jordan of Ohio for the House Speakership and in the guilty pleas of two of Trump’s attorneys and co-defendants Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in the Georgia RICO case.

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