The Crime Report

MAY 27, 2021

Few district attorneys in recent history have had a first term as consequential as Larry Krasner’s. Supervision lengths for felonies fell from an average of 48 months to 36 months, and from 12 months to 9 months for misdemeanors. Racial disparities significantly narrowed. Krasner has shown them that it can be done.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Drugs in the black community have been treated very differently than drugs in the white community,” acknowledged Sherry Boston, district attorney for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit in DeKalb County, Georgia. ” Dan Satterberg, Prosecuting Attorney at King County in Washington State, agreed.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. Attorney Matthew M. in Robertson’s car on the morning of January 6, 2021. The men were sentenced in the District of Columbia.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

While the legislation passed earlier this year didn’t address police directly, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gills says it will add a “new hurdle” for any prosecutor attempting to charge an officer, reports PBS. In Washington, D.C., The yearly toll reached a new high of 1,021 fatal shootings in 2020.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

The county Commonwealth’s Attorney, Steve T. Descano, says his office lacks the resources to hire attorneys to properly handle all of his office’s cases and, as a result, stopped prosecuting cases involving allegations of non-felony assault, larceny and other low-level crimes.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 30, 2011

But, based on press reports and DOJ's own press releases, it looks like there has been at least some rethinking of the policies in Washington, DC as well. The DOJ is now making clear that it still considers the sale of marijuana to be a Federal felony. Broadcasters are Federal licensees.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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. Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman, defense attorneys for the parents, said in a Dec. That may be what it takes.”.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

As personal marijuana use becomes decriminalized in the states of Washington and Colorado, we once again repeat our warning to broadcasters who may be looking to pot sales as a new source of advertising revenue – remember that the Federal government still thinks that the drug is illegal.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

d)) was a serious felony (id., §§ 667, subd. (a)(1), Washington (2004) 542 U.S. show that the case was frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation in order to recover attorney fees? Code, § 243, subd. (d)) a)(1), 1192.7, See Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000) 530 U.S. 466; Blakely v. 296; Cunningham v. Code, § 81000 et seq.)

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

show that the case was frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation in order to recover attorney fees? d)) was a serious felony (id., §§ 667, subd. (a)(1), Washington (2004) 542 U.S. Brand : Must a prevailing defendant in an action under the Political Reform Act of 1974 (Gov. Code, § 81000 et seq.) Code, § 243, subd. (d))

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

Because the station cannot censor the candidate ad (except in the exceptionally rare situation where the airing of the ad might violate a Federal felony statute), the broadcaster has no liability for the contents of the ad. In fact, the Communications Act forbids a station from censoring a candidate ad. How much investigation is necessary?

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

University of Washington professors Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert, who have studied Seattle’s efforts, said in their 2009 book, “ Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America ,” that banishment is “rarely debated publicly” and that cities’ tactics are “largely deployed without much fanfare.”. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Washington Appellate Court Said Climate Goals in County’s Shoreline Master Program Were Not Unconstitutionally Vague. The Washington Court of Appeals upheld Jefferson County’s 2014 Shoreline Master Program, which is a combination of planning policies and development regulations that address shoreline uses and development.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Instead, police treated her like a criminal, based on her previous felony convictions. Earth-Feather Sovereign, founder of the nonprofit Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Washington said police often do not take Indigenous women’s reports of sexual assault or victimization seriously.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On Wednesday, Digmon was also charged with two felony counts of violating state ethics law for allegedly using her school board position to solicit a thing of value by selling more than $2,500 in advertisements to the board. ” Abuse of grand jury information is a felony under Alabama law. Theodore J.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Felony drug distribution carried a maximum sentence of 30 years and a fine up to $500,000 when I practiced as a prosecutor in DC. The statute allows state and local prosecutors to pass to federal prosecutors cases where someone convicted of a felony is in possession of an illegal gun. [link] Photo courtesy Wear Orange website.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

This guide, authored by County Attorney Reese Frederickson from Minnesota, IIP Deputy Director Alissa Marque Heydari, a nd IIP Legal Fellow Chloe Marmet , spotlights individuals who have implemented restorative justice programs to meet the needs of the victims, society, and the accused in their communities.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Washington , in their “long conference” last week, and they have relisted it for Friday’s conference.). Issue : Whether the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act’s felony prohibitions on “dispensing” drugs reach the administering of drugs by practitioners, which has been left to state and local regulation for more than a century.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2023

Meetra Mehdizadeh, Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, raised concerns over the ban’s potential negative impacts, saying: This extreme law does nothing to protect people’s health.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago. The Justice Department also appears to have latched on to the 7% solution.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

Hunter Biden was back in Washington last night for a formal dinner at the White House with the Indian Prime Minister. Yet, the report says that there was an effort to charge the tax matters as felonies and U.S. Attorney David Weiss was rebuffed in his attempt to bring charges in two jurisdictions. Attorney’s office.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland took the most important step in pulling off the controlled demolition by steadfastly refusing to appoint a special counsel. Attorney David Weiss state that that there is an “ongoing investigation.” Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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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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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Howell of Washington has questioned why U.S. 6 attack by a pro-Donald Trump mob, reports the Washington Post. attorney’s office in Washington on why it was seeking to require only $2,000 in each felony case and $500 in each misdemeanor case. District Judge Beryl A. Capitol and pressed the U.S. Assistant U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Career prosecutors have quit there after the election of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who is blamed for a sharp decrease in prosecutions. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. The convictions would later be expunged completely; millions of offenses erased.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

However, as a criminal defense attorney, I have never heard of a defendant seeking an Alford plea without previously discussing the option with prosecutors. These pleas ordinarily require the approval of prosecutors and Justice Department rules require the approval of high-ranking officials or the Attorney General himself. The result?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court also temporarily enjoined two felony riot statutes because they went “far beyond” the State’s “appropriate interest” in criminalizing participation in a riot with acts of force or violence. Washington High Court Declined to Review Decision Giving Pipeline Protester Right to Present Necessity Defense. 97182-0 (Wash.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

The case is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for DC and the DOJ National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. The FBI’s Washington Field Office is investigating the case. In December, two individuals from Florida and Washington were sentenced for assaulting law enforcement. .

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

In 1991, the number of states plus Washington, DC with this kind of law on the books was nearly double that, according to Every Town for Gun Safety. In 2020, while Black people made up 18% of New York’s population, they accounted for 78% of the state’s felony gun possession cases.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus and others have written about how the evidence exposed a “stunning display of Trump’s narcissism.” The Bidens are suffering from legal exposure in actions concerning everything from withholding child support to peddling influence to federal felonies. When attorney John F.

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2021

D’Antuono also said that the FBI had been aware of several individuals who had planned to come to Washington, DC, on January 6 to commit crimes, and that they had been stopped before they could put their plans in motion.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Similar amendments received the nod in other states, ‘In one of the most definitive go-slow messages of the night, Republican candidates for district attorney in both Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Idland, garnered landslide victories in races that had been turned into a referendum New York’s controversial bail reform law.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

There is no question that the best course in dealing with a felonious president is to first remove the president from office through the impeachment process and then indict the former president in the wake of the Senate conviction. It is the type of question that Attorney General Merrick Garland should be eager to answer.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If it were intended to disrupt the congressional proceedings, it could be treated as a felony. Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this subsection shall be on information filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. (a-1) It could be a crime.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Some of these checks, labeled “legal expenses,” were allegedly for attorney Michael Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels. There is a plausible reason why payments to an attorney were listed as legal expenses.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

Here is the column: “The moment that we are waiting for, we made it to the finale together” — those familiar words from “ America’s Got Talent ” — could well be the opening line for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg next week, when he is expected to unveil an indictment of former President Trump.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. The key is to avoid any objective meaning. and Maurice C.

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