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.

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A People's Choice

JULY 30, 2020

While not all criminal charges are eligible for expungement, even if you have been charged with a felony, you do have options. To read the complete article, please click on the link How to File A Petition for Expungement in California This post appeared first on A People's Choice - Legal Documents - Without the Lawyers.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

After an investigation found that tens of thousands of Californians still have felonies, misdemeanors and other cannabis convictions on their records, despite a 2018 law that required the state to clear, a new law will set new deadlines to dismiss and seal many cannabis convictions in the state, reports Kiera Feldman for the Los Angeles Times.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

Arizona also repealed a law authorizing suspension of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and authorized its courts to redesignate some felonies as misdemeanors, the report details. . We have come a long way in the past five years, but there is still a long way to go.”.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

for shipping undocumented migrants to California. It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” came across as the ultimate example of California dreaming, as Newsom and a chorus of politicians and pundits called for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.,

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PETA and other groups have called the activists “heroes” f or their actions but prosecutors are seeking convictions for felony burglary and theft charges. The protester was engaged, at a minimum, in a criminal misdemeanor while be pursued by security. In my view, Wagner and McKinley had a right to tackle the protester.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 25, 2021

Shoplifting has been declining in the city since 1985, according to data from the California Department of Justice. The city saw 710 reported shoplifting incidents in the first four months of 2021, down from 933 during the same period in 2019.

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The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

Jain argued that jailhouse screenings affect the criminal justice process as they often make the various steps in the criminal process harder and disproportionately affect those arrested of misdemeanors versus felonies.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Superior Court (Mitchell) and limited the issues to: “(1) Does Penal Code section 1238 authorize an appeal by the People from a superior court’s post-preliminary hearing, prejudgment order reducing a felony ‘wobbler’ offense to a misdemeanor? (2) ” This case presents yet another intra-division split.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

California prosecutors on Friday charged Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) — one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the US — with involuntary manslaughter, finding a connection between the utility’s equipment and the deaths of four people in the 2020 Zogg Fire.

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JURIST

MAY 14, 2024

According to the DOJ’s statement, Batten conspired with Chance Brannon and Tibet Ergul, both from California, to construct a Molotov cocktail which was later detonated in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa, California. The events leading to Batten’s sentence transpired in February and March of 2022.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

Individuals charged with a felony or class A misdemeanor can ask for this hearing, unless they are accused of attacking a police officer. California passed a new law that says an officer can shoot someone “only when necessary in defense of human life.”. Both have an inalienable right to self-defense.”. In Washington, D.C.,

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 18, 2023

Related: “What’s ailing the California Supreme Court? Did the Court of Appeal err in ruling that the trial court adequately exercised its discretion to determine whether the juvenile’s offenses were felonies or misdemeanors as required by Welfare and Institutions Code section 702 and In re Manzy W. In re F.M. :

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

One charge would be California Penal Code 192(c) for vehicular manslaughter: Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. There appears to be two options under California law. That can be charged as either a misdemeanor or a felony. c) Vehicular—. (1)

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

Division Six concluded an erroneous felony-murder instruction was harmless. The unpublished opinion of the First District, Division One, affirmed the sustaining of a wardship petition for misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th 5th 588), in which no petition for review was filed. City of Upland (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the decriminalization of jaywalking in Nevada , Virginia and now California — the “ Freedom to Walk ” Act will take effect in Los Angeles in the new year — it appears that people understand this when it comes to jaywalking, but not when it comes to immigration. . When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In an interview co-published by The Crime Report and The Imprint , Contra Costa County (California) DA Diana Becton offers an impassioned defense of her record in changing the juvenile justice system in her jurisdiction. The DA’s office used to be really a family, and we had BBQs and baseball games,” she said on the “WTF California” podcast.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In California, Colorado and Massachusetts, a firearm owner can face liability after leaving a gun where a child merely has the potential to gain access. In most states, violating the CAP law is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is a slap on the wrist. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge?

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

Senate Bill S211 would seal conviction records automatically after three years of a completed sentence for misdemeanors and seven years for felonies. Similar legislation earned bipartisan support and passed in Utah, Connecticut, California and Michigan. People convicted of sex crimes are excluded from the bill.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

Special Counsel David Weiss has filed a blistering opposition to the motion to dismiss by Hunter Biden in California that cites his own book and conflicting statements as creating “nothing more than a house of cards.” ’ He cites nothing in support of his false claims, which is a consistent theme across his motions.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Granting a two-day-late petition for review (related: Getting relief for a late petition for review might not be a hopeless cause ; and see here , here , and here ), the court also agreed to hear California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation v. Board of Trustees of the California State University is a grant-and-hold for Stone v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

.” The right still exists for any felonies (or certain misdemeanors committed in the presence of the citizen). For example, under California’s Section 837: A private person may arrest another: For a public offense committed or attempted in his presence.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Miller was charged with assaulting Capitol police, a felony, and disorderly conduct inside the Capitol building, a misdemeanor. A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: City and County of San Francisco, California v. Garrett Miller was one of thousands of Trump supporters arrested in the aftermath of Jan.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. People of State of California v. California Federal Court Upheld Environmental Law Waivers for Border Wall.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

In one of only four cases to go to trial, Trump was convicted in New York state court of 34 felony charges involving hush money paid to a porn star. Here are specifics: California filed 123 separate lawsuits in Trumps first term about one new lawsuit every two weeks. California was far from the only one. Oyer declined.

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