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Washington State Restricts Gun Magazine Capacity Size, Joining 9 Other States

The Crime Report

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 Krasner Effect: DAs Can Lead the Way Towards Ending Mass Supervision

The Crime Report

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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Experts Say It Could Take 15 Years To Fix Maine’s Trial Backlog

The Crime Report

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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Off-duty Virginia police officer sentenced to 87 months for January 6 riot

JURIST

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. The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

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More than 70 charged in Capitol attack: DOJ officials

JURIST

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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Illinois Scores Top Rank in Reintegrating Ex-Incarcerees, Alaska is Lowest

The Crime Report

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. Washington D.C.

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Voters Send ‘Go-Slow’ Message on Police Reform

The Crime Report

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.