SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Share The court handed a win to a former-city council member in Texas on Thursday, clearing the way for her federal civil rights claim to move forward. The district attorney did not pursue the charges against Gonzalez. Gonzalez says that she accidentally picked up the petition after a long meeting.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2022

David Dubin was the managing partner of PARTS, a psychology practice in Texas. United States is whether identity theft occurs anytime a person uses someone else’s name in the commission of a crime. Facts of the Case. In April 2013, a treatment facility in San Antonio asked PARTS to evaluate a child known as Patient L.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

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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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2023

Fifteen red states (or at least states with Republican attorneys general) have filed an amicus brief in support of the petition, as has the National Republican Redistricting Trust. The ACCA provides that someone who has been convicted of a felony and possesses a firearm is normally subject to a maximum 10-year sentence.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“ In a Central Texas county, high schoolers are jailed on felony charges for vaping what could be legal hemp ” 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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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. The district attorney ultimately declined to pursue the charges against Gonzalez.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Now-retired prosecutor Ralph Petty earned a living at the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in West Texas. As a subsequent ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals finally made clear, the arrangement was not a momentary lapse in judgment or a one-time offense induced under pressure. Photo by Clyde Robinson via Flickr.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

million settlement with families of those injured and killed in the 2017 mass shooting at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta commented on the settlement, saying: No words or amount of money can dimmish the immense tragedy of the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A Texas judge granted on Thursday a temporary restraining order (TRO) barring the enforcement of the state’s strict abortion bans on a pregnant woman whose fetus was recently diagnosed with a fatal condition. Texas’s trigger ban took effect in 2021. Texas’s pre- Roe ban dates back to 1925.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

Texas’ trigger law has officially gone into effect, making performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to life in prison and a civil penalty of not less than $100,000, plus attorney fees, with only narrow exceptions to save the life of a pregnant patient, reports the Texas Tribune.

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JULY 6, 2017

Two other states—Texas and North Dakota—filed an amicus brief supporting EPA; the petitioners opposed their participation on procedural grounds. New York Trial Court Set Parameters for Exxon’s Compliance with Attorney General’s Climate Change Investigation. Clean Air Council v. Pruitt , No. 17-1145 (D.C. 47641-0-II (Wash.

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2023

The Texas “ law of parties ” allow prosecutors to seek and secure the execution of individuals involved in what is more generally known as “felony murder” crimes—offenses that involve more than one person, all of whom can be prosecuted as equal participants even though one or more of the participants may have had no direct involvement in the murder.

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OilandGasLawyer

JULY 7, 2022

I ran across an article recently in the Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society about James V Allred, who succeeded the infamous Miriam “Ma” Ferguson as Governor of Texas in 1935. The Article, “Texas Troubles: Governor Allred and His Rangers Defy Jim Crow,” by Jody Edward Ginn, Ph.D.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2021

As for the pandemic’s impact on human trafficking, the report found that economic crises caused by the pandemic have led to an increase in the crime in Texas. States with the most human trafficking cases tend to be large border states, such as Texas and California. For instance, in Texas, human trafficking is a second-degree felony.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In a 6-3 decision Ex parte Danny Richard Lane , the state’s highest criminal appeals court ruled that Texas’ historical doctrine of “judicial clemency” does not forgive sex offender registration. The Texas Legislature in 1991 enacted the state’s first sex offender registration program. He registered in Pasadena, Texas that same year.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

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 Crime Report

MAY 23, 2022

Under Rosales, people with multiple family violence charges and identifiable patterns of violence have been released from jail due to a section of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure that says people cannot be jailed past a certain period if prosecutors are not ready to take their cases to trial.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019. That is what is happening.”. Critic: Bail Reform Made Things Worse. percent and 25.1

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2021

He was tracked down in Texas and arrested due to outstanding warrants for felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault, and felony drug possession. The police also previously stated that Hall gave a false name to officers after Floyd’s death and then left Minneapolis.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2025

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, a Houston based midwife, for performing abortions and in the northwest Houston area. Performing an abortion is a second degree felony in Texas. Paxton further stated of the arrest: In Texas, life is sacred.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2024

The US Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to permit federal border patrol agents to cut the razor wire that Texas installed on the US-Mexico border. The Biden administration requested the decision to allow federal agents to access the border without facing tort claims from Texas.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court placed an administrative stay on Friday on a lower court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) that barred the enforcement of the state’s strict abortion bans on a pregnant woman whose fetus was recently diagnosed with a fatal condition. This is not the only abortion-related case in the Texas Supreme Court.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. In December, the Texas Supreme Court denied Kate Cox access to an abortion, despite her pregnancy compilations.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The DOJ charged an attorney for the Oath Keepers militia group with conspiracy and obstruction. On the same day, one man was sentenced to ten years in prison and a second pled guilty to felony charges. According to the Texas Bar , Sorelle is ineligible to practice law in Texas.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That’s nothing,” Leesa Ross, founder of Texas-based Lock Arms for Life , told The Crime Report. “A Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? The felony charges filed against the Crumbleys could result in a maximum prison sentence of 15 years on each count of involuntary manslaughter.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

During the pandemic, federal jury trial rates fell as low as zero percent — meaning not a single case was moving forward in the court system, wrote the paper’s author, Brandon Marc Draper , currently Assistant County Attorney in Harris County, Texas. The backlog is heavy. The full forthcoming paper can be accessed here.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein asks the justices to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. Like the attorney general, the association argues that the law is a valid exercise of the state’s power to protect property and business interests. City of Arlington, Texas v. In Stein v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday that Alabama would immediately ask the court to strike down “any legal barriers to enforcing” a 2019 law, HB314, that makes performing an abortion a felony. Alabama’s Attorney General was granted an emergency motion to dissolve an injunction against the law on Friday afternoon.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

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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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Starr County, Texas district attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez, has dismissed the murder charge levied against Lizelle Herrera for having a “self-induced abortion,” saying that it was clear that she did not commit a criminal act under state law, reports the New York Times.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 3, 2022

A feud between two of Texas’ most prominent justice reformers—Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg and Judge Lina Hidalgo—has exploded into a bitter court case. Harris County, the third most populous county in the United States, is home to Houston, the largest city in Texas and fourth largest city in the United States.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The MAGA-world “Kraken” lawyer Sidney Powell will not face any discipline from the Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals. ” As reported by Law 360: The commission argued in its June petition that Powell’s offenses qualified as both intentional and serious crimes under the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure.

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The Crime Report

MAY 14, 2021

Unlike the majority of criminal defendants who are mostly poor people of color, Chauvin was represented by over a dozen highly trained attorneys that carried a bill well over a million dollars. The attorney, Robert Michael Thomas, wrote me back and said that he would try to help me. Jury trial? That was almost 23 years ago.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill supported the indictment, stating : “It is illegal to send abortion pills into this State and it’s illegal to coerce another into having an abortion. .” After the daughter ingested the pill, she was taken to the hospital because of a medical emergency.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. The justices should also weigh in, Avenatti contended, on whether an attorney can be held liable for extortion for his conduct during litigation.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers was arrested in Texas on Thursday morning. The case is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for DC and the DOJ National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. Seditious conspiracy can result in a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 2022 interview, Harpster defended his program and noted that he has also helped defense attorneys argue for suspects’ innocence. While there is no index that lists cases in which bloodstain-pattern analysis played a role, state appellate court rulings show that the technique has played a factor in felony cases across the country.

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