JURIST

JUNE 20, 2023

The US Attorney for the District of Delaware charged Hunter Biden, US President Joe Biden’s son, on Tuesday with tax and firearm offenses. Biden plans to plead guilty to both misdemeanor tax charges. Biden faces two tax-related charges. Those charges include two violations of 26 U.S.C.

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JUNE 18, 2021

I was highly skeptical of the charges brought by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was later removed from the case due to ethical concerns. Now, the couple has been allowed to plead to two minor misdemeanors in the conclusion of a highly politicized case.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Oregon has the equivalent of 600 full-time court-appointed attorneys, who have historically shouldered about 75,000 adult criminal cases a year. In Multnomah County, the court system delayed more than 700 unrepresented misdemeanor cases and 800 unrepresented felony cases from February through mid-August.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Steven Donziger, a former attorney who has spent decades battling Chevron Corp. over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, was sentenced on Friday to six months in prison for criminal contempt of court. The initial dispute originated in 2011 after an Ecuadorian court rendered a $9.5

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The Crime Report

MARCH 11, 2022

Philadelphia’s Accelerated Misdemeanor Program (AMP) requires a defendant to do 12-18 hours of community service and to pay court fees within 10 weeks of accepting the terms, expunging the case records of those who complete the program.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In Philadelphia, for example, data is a critical piece of District Attorney Larry Krasner’s efforts to build trust with the community after strained relations under his predecessors. District Attorney Satana Deberry said the project “has already shed new light on how to achieve public safety, fairness, and justice for our Durham community.”

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ranchers have been empowered to call hundred-person selection jury trials for simple misdemeanor trespassing charges against migrants crossing into their property.

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CourtTechBulletin

MAY 17, 2022

Teams were comprised of stakeholders from across the justice system, including the senior resident superior court judge; chief district court judge; representatives from the offices of the district attorney, public defender, clerk, and sheriff; and others.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Biden now faces 11 charges in total—three felonies and eight misdemeanors. US Attorney General appointed Special Prosecutor David Weiss to conduct and oversee the investigation into Biden in August, which led to the indictment issued on Thursday. He is also charged with one count of violating 26 U.S.C.

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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 Paralegal Resource

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Many of those accused of crimes involving drugs and alcohol choose to roll the dice and face jail or prison, rather than embrace a healthy sober lifestyle when advised to do so by their attorneys and the Ventura, Los Angeles, and Orange County courts. High end rehabs can be a cushy alternative to jail.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Talking to people who are not attorneys will help ensure that your strategy is translating well, and they can help you think of options outside of the law that you may have overlooked. Attorney Coleman was born and raised in Tallahassee, Fl and attended Florida State University with dual degrees in English (Creative Writing) and Spanish.

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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. Finally, there was no measurable change in recidivism.

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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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The Crime Report

JULY 29, 2022

Defense attorneys and prosecutors in Maine are skeptical that a so-called “trial blitz” planned for the fall will be enough to get Maine’s stalled criminal justice system moving again and accelerate the resolution of enough cases, reports the Bangor Daily News.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. Addressing the lawsuit, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta stated : SB 4 is clearly unconstitutional. The case is in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas Austin Division. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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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.”. Those standards are expected to be released in May, replacing metrics that have been in place for decades.

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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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The Crime Report

MAY 8, 2023

Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams in New Orleans accompanied by business owners, faith leaders, and city officials, held a gathering to give respect to a 2022 double homicide that killed Kane Sanders and Christopher Cornelius, Andres Fuentes reports for Fox 8.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Daunte Wright was fatally shot in a Minneapolis suburb last April after Potter and Officer Anthony Luckey, who was being trained by Potter, made a traffic stop after spotting expired tags on Wright’s vehicle and an air freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror, a misdemeanor in Minnesota.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

.” The first offense gets a warning, and the second gets a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by 15 days in prison, or a $750 fine, the Post-Dispatch reported. Cities that don’t “enforce any ordinances prohibiting public camping, sleeping, or obstruction of sidewalks,” can be sued by the Missouri attorney general.

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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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LegalReader

JUNE 2, 2022

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

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whatever you choose to do, make the decision that supports your dreams and, of course, your financial goals.

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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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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Pardon Attorney, in the introduction to the report. Take Alaska , for example, which the report ranks as the lowest-performing state in terms of nearly every law category analyzed — receiving “F” grades for pardoning, felony relief, misdemeanor relief, certificates of relief, employment, and occupational licensing laws.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

Somil Trivedi is Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project. Plea bargaining also exacerbates the rampant, original-sin racial disparities in the system. Studies show that white people are more likely to have serious charges dropped, while Black people are more likely to have serious charges stick.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

However, Rittenhouse’s defense attorney is arguing that his client was protected under a different “vague state law” that allows younger children to carry rifles for hunting. Criminal defense attorneys who specialize in Wisconsin firearm law say it will be hard for the defense to get their perspective accepted. .

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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. The evidence backs up this connection,” Siemon continued.

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The Crime Report

MAY 23, 2022

Nearly 18 months since she took office, El Paso District Attorney Yvonne Rosales has closed down her office’s specialized domestic violence unit, ending many tenets of a domestic violence program aimed at collecting evidence and providing quick-response victim support, and filed 60 percent fewer felony and misdemeanor assault cases against alleged (..)

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The Crime Report

MAY 5, 2021

The Yolo County (California) District Attorney’s Office says they have been tracking people who were let out on zero-dollar bail and observed that almost half have been arrested again, reports FOX40. For example, bail for those with charges relating to child pornography could go from $50,000 to $5,000.

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