The Crime Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Soon after Shannon Lucas began serving a sentence at a Colorado halfway house, her medication began to disappear. A 2017 audit of a different Colorado facility, ComCor, found that formal complaints were not “consistently maintained, reviewed or responded to.” ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.

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JURIST

JULY 14, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided Friday that Emilee Carpenter, a religious wedding photographer seeking an exemption to the New York Human Rights Law under the First Amendment, had enough factual basis for a claim and could proceed to the district court.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Vape pens with marijuana-derived extracts are legal in many states, like New Mexico and Colorado, but not in Texas, and the criminal punishments for such derivatives are harsher than for marijuana. Having up to 4 ounces of flower marijuana is a misdemeanor. It’s unclear when a final ruling will come down.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning released a long list of orders from the justices private conference on Feb. Over dissents or statements from several justices, the court denied review in cases that they had considered repeatedly at their recent conferences. 21 the first regularly scheduled conference in nearly a month.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A day later, Trump posted on his Truth Social account that “ the Supreme Court must intercede.” A federal district court in Washington agreed and dismissed the obstruction charges. 6 attack on the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

It was due to the paucity of direct evidence of a crime that would hold up in court. Colorado, the Supreme Court ruled that criminal threats must be based on a showing of a culpable mental state. In so holding, the Court sought to offer “‘breathing space’ for protected speech.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 2, 2025

While new laws taking effect Wednesday in California, Colorado, New York, Delaware, and Minnesota have focused on increasing gun control in various ways, laws in New Hampshire and Kentucky have expanded in favor of strengthening the right to own and use firearms. The new concealed carry laws will go into effect later this year in July.

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