The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. Nora Volkow, have frequently discussed how social stigma steers people toward more drug use and, at least indirectly, more fatal overdoses. To counter this stigma, though, we first have to understand it.

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JUNE 7, 2023

However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. For example, the right to vote is held by individuals, but they do not exercise it solely for their own sake; rather, they cast votes as part of the collective enterprise of self-governance.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

where the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal, in a published opinion , affirmed almost $170,000 in attorneys fees after a jury awarded less than $22,000 for a violation of the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (commonly known as the “lemon law”) in the sale of a used car. The court granted review in Pulliam v.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A lawyer by training, Margaret began her career in the Roanoke City Commonwealth Attorney’s Office prosecuting criminal cases and then went on to defend criminal cases throughout the Roanoke and New River Valleys. And then finally, you have the private sector attorneys. To me, I love all branches of state government equally.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 24, 2022

County of Riverside , which is expected to decide whether immunity under Government Code section 821.6 A157169) 2019 WL 5654385, review denied ), held that pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect did not categorically allow the police to enter a home without a warrant. is limited to actions for malicious prosecution. Lange (Oct.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

Here is what the provision states: “Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.” Mosley , 408 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. million payment in attorney fees. Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo reportedly joined the massive protests and even handed out a flier denouncing the bakery as a racist business.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. That is the difference between the New York Attorney General report and a criminal case. For the purposes of this section, forcible touching includes squeezing, grabbing or pinching. Such a charge comes with the potential of a year sentence.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. million payment in attorney fees. Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo reportedly joined the massive protests and even handed out a flier denouncing the bakery as a racist business.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

The Supreme Court has made clear that to obtain a conviction for use of “fighting words,” the Government must offer evidence of the “likelihood that the person addressed would make an immediate violent response.” Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416, Gooding, 405 U.S. Here, it has not. Mosley , 408 U.S.

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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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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Almost one year ago, then-Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced that his office would no longer prosecute individuals for prostitution and unlicensed massage. In New York, unlicensed massage is a class E felony, punishable by up to four years in prison, whereas prostitution is a class B misdemeanor. Song died from the impact.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 18, 2022

a)(2) requires written complaints of police misconduct to be accompanied by signed acknowledgements that filing a knowingly false complaint can lead to a misdemeanor prosecution. governs discovery for habeas corpus petitions of certain materials in the possession of the prosecution and law enforcement authorities. ” ( Chaker v.

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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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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The case stems from Mississippi House Bill 1020 , which created a court with judges appointed by the state’s Supreme Court and prosecutors appointed by the state’s Attorney General in Jackson’s Capital Complex Improvement District (CCID).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

Notably, Weiss said that it was Hunter Biden’s legal team that inexplicably shut down negotiations by playing hardball in seeking to preserve the original agreement: “The government proposed changes to the agreements that addressed only the issues identified during the hearing.

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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. state once they are released by the federal government.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Everyone knew that putting a conspiracy theorist with no Justice Department experience in charge of the US Attorney’s Office in DC would be a disaster. attorney Ed Martin then personally submitted a seizure warrant application without any other prosecutors in his office that was rejected by a U.S. magistrate judge in D.C.,

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Above The Law

MARCH 12, 2025

In 2011, he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery of a former girlfriend and was recorded making death threats against her. Former Justice Department pardon attorney Elizabeth G. The post DOJ Attorney Says She Lost Her Job Because She Wouldn’t Let Mel Gibson Get A Pew Pew appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. She locked into a debate with the man’s public defender about the concept of mass incarceration, which she does not believe in.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Howell challenged the toughness of the Justice Department’s stance in a plea hearing for a Colorado Springs man who admitted to one of four nonviolent misdemeanor counts of picketing in the U.S. 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.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

Bannon’s attorney asserted that the information that the committee sought was protected by executive privilege – that is, the president’s power to keep information about the workings of the executive branch confidential – and that he could not override that privilege.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sitting in the courtroom was a strong reminder of the ways in which our apparatus of justice, starting with the police, squeezes a lot of human drama—and claims from ordinary people that their government should help them—into the box of each individual case. Government should respond to vacant lots. So what does that mean?

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

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. Trump , on his social-media platform, insisted he had been “cooperating fully,” adding that the “government could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it.”.

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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2024

The hearing included testimony from the attorney generals of Montana, Oklahoma and Missouri—states led by Republican governors—who said they have dealt with impacts from Mayorkas’s policies, even though none of them neighbor Mexico. Attorney General Montana Austin Knudsen noted there had been a devastating fentanyl crisis in Montana.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

At the time, Democrats were complaining about a sudden move to rush forward a stopgap measure to keep the government funded and complaining that they did not have enough time to consider the bill. this would constitute a criminal misdemeanor. An investigation into why it was pulled is underway.” Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.)

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“ Travis County judges can’t hear appeals from migrants arrested under Texas border security push, court rules ” 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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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

cities experienced a 30 percent jump in killings in 2020, the biggest one-year increase since the federal government began compiling national figures in the 1960s. In Suffolk County, Republican Ray Tierney trounced Democratic incumbent District Attorney Tim Sini with 145,933 votes or 57 percent to 109,060 votes or 43 percent.

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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. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. If any leg is missing, the stool collapses.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS Supreme Court Sent Other Climate Cases Back to Lower Appellate Courts for Review of Other Grounds for Removal.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) ran on a pledge to bag former president Donald Trump. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also pledged to get Trump. Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. In Gonzalez v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

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.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The reason, once again, is Hillary Clinton, who remains a complicating factor in Attorney General Merrick Garland showing the public that this is not about pursuing Trump but enforcing the law. Under Section 1519, the government can prosecute someone who “ knowingly conceals any document with the intent to obstruct ” their investigation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

In the case challenging President Biden’s revocation of the presidential permit, the federal government moved to dismiss, arguing that the case was moot, that the court lacked jurisdiction to grant relief against the president and the agency defendants, and that the states lacked standing, which also made venue improper. Trump , No.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2025

In Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasnerpledged to pursue those pardoned or commuted with new charges on the state level eclipsing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in repackaging federal crimes as state offenses. 31, 2023, to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. The D.C.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

Below is my column on Fox.com on the closure of the government and defense cases in the Trump trial. Merchan has allowed the government to bring back into life a dead misdemeanor and convert it into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. He is a Fox News contributor.

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