JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied an injunction Thursday against a Mississippi law that created a state-run court district in the state’s capital of Jackson. The bill also gives the court jurisdiction over misdemeanors, violations of city ordinances and felony preliminary matters.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 1, 2022

In an experiment aimed at reducing chronic criminal behavior, the district attorney responsible for one of the country’s most violent neighborhoods has agreed to forego prosecutions for some non-violent offenses and place offenders under the responsibility of community organizations.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Steven Donziger, a former attorney who has spent decades battling Chevron Corp. She stated that “it seems only the proverbial two-by-four between the eyes” would get him to properly respect the law. over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, was sentenced on Friday to six months in prison for criminal contempt of court.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 7, 2022

Newly elected Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has told prosecutors in his office in a memo that they should ask judges for jail or prison time only for the most serious offenses — including murder, sexual assault and economic crimes involving vast sums of money — unless the law requires them to do otherwise, reports the New York Times.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced that his office will dismiss roughly 60,000 marijuana convictions, the latest step to undo what some reform advocates consider the damage caused by narcotics enforcement carried out before Californians voted to legalize marijuana, reports the Los Angeles Times.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Possession of drug paraphernalia is a misdemeanor punishable by up to four years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000. Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby wants that policy put into law and applied to the rest of the state.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 18, 2022

A group of defense attorneys told the state’s highest criminal court that some men are still locked up for months before the courts give them an attorney or prosecutors file misdemeanor charges against them, in violation of state laws.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 21, 2022

New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 24, 2022

Washington governor Jay Inslee has signed a package of bills tightening the state’s gun laws, including a measure that bans the manufacture, distribution and sale of firearm magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, reports The Guardian.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will be hosting a clinic in north Minneapolis this week to help eligible people get their criminal records wiped clean, Nafi Soumare reports for the Minnesota Reformer. Expungement is available for misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor charges, such as theft, forgery or drug possession or sale.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

In addition, Adrian Guerrero, a general director of public affairs at Union Pacific, said lenient prosecution practices result in those arrested for rifling through railcars having their charges reduced to a misdemeanor or petty offense that has them back on the street with relative ease.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

Setting off what may be the country’s most high-profile clash over progressive prosecutor policies, Keechant Sewell, New York City’s new police commissioner, and newly-elected Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, are butting heads over their approaches to public safety.

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LegalReader

JUNE 2, 2022

The state of Arkansas has made reckless driving a criminal misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

this would constitute a criminal misdemeanor. 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. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Reporting on the latest data, OPB details that Oregon’s public defense system’s stress has had long-lasting implications, as it has one-third of the attorneys the state news to “adequately represent criminal defendants.”. ” New Mexico and Oregon. .” ” New Mexico and Oregon. We didn’t get to this problem overnight.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Convicted in December for first- and second-degree manslaughter, Potter was sentenced only on the more serious charge per Minnesota law. Later the same month, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a probe into the Minneapolis Police Department.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Over the five arrests made for six of the 10 subway murders since March 2020, four of the suspects, allegedly responsible for five murders among them, had had previous run-ins with the law for alleged or convicted violent offenses.”. NYPD routinely confiscated handguns and knives from people committing misdemeanors on the subways.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Pardon Attorney, in the introduction to the report. Several new states have joined those previously identified as reform leaders, and half a dozen other states have made “substantial improvements” to existing laws, according to the report. and then assigning an overall ranking for each state. Washington D.C. in the past 50 years.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

As a society, we eventually decided that faster access to Model Ts and Mustangs didn’t justify the horrific harms of the assembly line, and we passed laws and filed lawsuits to make the process safer. And we need to elect mayors, prosecutors, and judges who will commit to foregoing coercive tactics, even if the law currently allows them.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Path to Well-Being in Law. 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. What do I know about the law? Episode Transcript: Chris Newbold: .

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

Attorney Matthew M. The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Now, Robertson and Fracker must serve 87 months in prison, complete 36 months supervised release and pay restitution of $2,000. The men were sentenced in the District of Columbia.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While the appalling circumstances surrounding my arrest and dismissal of my case didn’t make headline news, the event introduced me firsthand to the long-lasting harm caused by law enforcement agencies’ practice of publishing booking mugshots online. As a law-obeying citizen, I had never had as much as a traffic ticket. .

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner handily won his bid for re-election in Philadelphia, voters in the conservative suburbs of Long Island elected tough-on-crime candidates who opposed New York State’s new bail reform law. In Nassau, career local prosecutor Anne Donnelly upset Democratic state Sen.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

These reports are part of the Commission’s statutory mandate and provide vital information and analysis to attorneys, scholars and the public. Supervised release , by contrast, is a term of supervision that follows imprisonment , applicable to any defendant convicted of a felony or grade-A misdemeanor. percent, 28.07 percent, and 64.94

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JUNE 7, 2023

At issue was the federal “felon-in-possession” law—18 U.S.C. § The federal law makes it “unlawful for any person. However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. 922(g)(1), which bars ex-felons from possession of firearms.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Greg Abbott ’s Operation Lone Star , the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled unanimously Wednesday that Travis County courts can’t weigh claims of wrongful detention caused by misdemeanor arrests 200 miles away. Migrants sat in state prisons for weeks or months after being arrested without being appointed lawyers or seeing a judge.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The call for funding was backed up by law enforcement leaders. Another recent study noted in the report found that Oklahoma’s universal pre-K program found that the program “decreased the likelihood that black children were later charged with a misdemeanor or felony crime at age 18 or 19.

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MorneauLaw

MAY 20, 2023

Illegal Recordings One-party consent is not allowed by New Hampshire law, including telephone calls or in-person conversations. Not only will most recordings not be admitted as exhibits by a judge, but these recordings can also bring bigger consequences including criminal misdemeanor or felony charges. appeared first on Morneau Law.

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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. First, let’s look at the law. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.)

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

Kathy Hochul is seeking to amend the state’s bail law by rolling back bans instituted in 2019 on cash bail for most misdemeanor and nonviolent felony offenses and, instead, letting judges set bail for more repeat offenders, as well as for people who are accused of a larger list of gun crimes, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

police chief) and his academic colleagues found that a majority of police officers surveyed “perceived control” over their decision to arrest for misdemeanors (69 percent) or confiscate drug paraphernalia like syringes (56 percent). A recent study published by Brandon del Pozo (the former Burlington, Vt.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The new court would be led by a state-appointed judge and prosecutors, and it would be the equivalent of a municipal court, handling misdemeanor cases. In a December 5 federal court filing, Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for the department’s Civil Rights Division, and Todd Gee, the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

Or users can reach out to those in law enforcement for a referral. Only those who are accused of low-level, non-violent misdemeanors are eligible. Individual officers can offer drug users they come in contact with the option of completing treatment in exchange for not filing charges or later having them dropped.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2022

One of those is Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj, who in now in middle of a controversy over an alleged misrepresentation of the criminal record of a felon in order to secure a lower sentence in a plea deal. Your lane is being the attorney general of Virginia.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

this would more likely constitute a criminal misdemeanor. In Bowman’s case, the criminal act is captured on videotape, but it is also likely a misdemeanor. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. It could be a crime.

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