The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But what happens when a night of drinking leads to a felony? . Boulder, Colorado fits the American college town stereotype; young students often spend their free time on weekends partying. For example, Garnett recalls a case in which two teenage boys were caught stealing a power tool in a hardware store in Colorado.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even worse, those laws exacerbate labor shortages by taking willing workers out of the job market who could fill essential jobs in critical fields. During the 2021 legislative session, 10 legislatures made significant progress in adopting laws that expand licensing opportunities for people with criminal histories.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a result of the shortages of public defenders in New Mexico, attorneys have had to represent 156 cases per year and work about 13 hours per case, regardless of whether the case is a misdemeanor or felony, the report details. . ” New Mexico and Oregon. hours per workday, and lawyers in Oregon would need to put in 26.6

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

cities experienced saw a shooting between 2011 and 2020, in contrast to the 1970s in New York, when about 30 percent of blocks experienced a violent felony. Murder shot up 90 percent in Colorado Springs but dropped 16 percent in Chicago, they cited. . For example, around 6 percent of city blocks in U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 10, 2022

Since 2015 Congress has attached a rider to its appropriations bills barring the Department of Justice from using funds “to prevent [states] from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2022

On our Broadcast Law Blog, we wrote last week about the FCC’s current role in regulating the Internet ( Blog Post ). On the same day we published our article, it was announced that Senator Bennett from Colorado introduced legislation in Congress to create a Federal Digital Platform Commission to regulate Internet platforms.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether Arizona’s sentencing law for juvenile offenders convicted of first-degree murder violates Miller because, although the law allows for the possibility of release, the state abolished parole for homicide in 1994.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

As personal marijuana use becomes decriminalized in the states of Washington and Colorado, we once again repeat our warning to broadcasters who may be looking to pot sales as a new source of advertising revenue – remember that the Federal government still thinks that the drug is illegal. How does this affect broadcasters?

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“ In a Central Texas county, high schoolers are jailed on felony charges for vaping what could be legal hemp ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A new Colorado state law increases eligibility for people convicted of felonies to receive DNA testing, providing a recourse for those who may have been falsely convicted, Hannah Metzger reports for Colorado Politics.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

The survivors and families of the victims joined in a lawsuit against the US government, alleging negligence under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act due to the government’s failure to prevent Kelley from purchasing a firearm despite his prior felony convictions.

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JURIST

JUNE 26, 2023

Anderson Lee Aldrich , the gunman who killed five during an attack on an LGBTQIA+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty in court Monday to five counts of murder, 46 counts of attempted murder and no contest to two bias-motivated crimes. The charges were later dropped.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Oklahoma should apply retroactively, and whether the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act violates a website designer’s First Amendment rights. Elenis , a website designer asks the justices to decide whether the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act violates the free speech or free exercise clauses of the First Amendment. In 303 Creative LLC v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Two other cases involve a dispute involving the Navajo Nation’s rights to Colorado River water. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has deviated from that by holding that enablement is a question of law that courts review without deference. Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. trademarks.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

There have been more than 250 new laws passed in that 18-month period alone — amazing state efforts to roll back the malign effects of the 30-year crime war,” the CCRC details. On a more broad spectrum, a pardon may be necessary to enable anyone to run for elected office, or simply secure a professional or business license.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 19, 2021

A well-known Colorado lawyer and animal rights activist, Jennifer Emmi, 43, is facing an impressive array of charges in an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting the girlfriend of her estranged husband. The plea allows for the dropping of 11 other felony charges and 12 misdemeanor charges Emmi was facing, according to another report.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

It is therefore encouraging that states have begun to enact laws limiting record-based disqualifications in housing decisions. Phil Murphy signed into law the Fair Chance in Housing Act , the most rigorous state legislation to date limiting consideration of criminal records in housing decisions. On June 18, New Jersey Gov. Urbana, Il.,

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Ross , involving a dormant commerce clause challenge to a California law prohibiting the sale of pork unless the pigs from which it was made (virtually all of which come from outside the state) were raised consistent with the state’s restrictive standards. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (relisted 14 times). relisted after the Feb.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

. “We don’t have strong enough laws,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told reporters at a Dec. That law doesn’t require the gun purchaser to use the safety device sold with their firearm. And, there are no federal laws mandating gun storage practices after the owner takes position of a legally purchased firearm.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The failure to comply with these requirements is a felony under Florida law. Pennsylvania’s law governing requirements for registered sex-offenders, he writes, “is in all relevant respects the same as Florida’s.” In 2017, Clements went to federal court, seeking to challenge the constitutionality of his conviction. Clements v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

A 2013 study that examined 413 civil and criminal cases brought forward after Roe found that Black women were “significantly more likely to be arrested, reported to state authorities by hospital staff, and subjected to felony charges,” according to VICE News. States Aim to Stop Prosecutions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. ,

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Colorado, the Supreme Court ruled that criminal threats must be based on a showing of a culpable mental state. Threatening or intimidating pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 is a class 1 misdemeanor, except that it is a class 6 felony if: 1. Threatening or intimidating pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 3 is a class 3 felony.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Federal law prohibits employers from firing workers for practicing their religion unless the employer can show that the worker’s religious practice cannot “reasonably” be accommodated without “undue hardship.” The justices granted review in 11 new cases for a total of eight hours of oral argument. Counterman v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

on four felony counts relating to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. 13, the court announced that it will decide whether the same federal law at the center of one of the charges in Trump’s case – barring the obstruction of an official proceeding – can be used to prosecute participants in the Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Capitol – and possibly, the former president – under a financial-crimes law that bars obstruction of government proceedings. The law increased protections for investors and whistleblowers in the corporate-finance industry. Garrett Miller was one of thousands of Trump supporters arrested in the aftermath of Jan. Hoganson v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

needs to radically change existing immigration laws and policies to shift away from the mindset of “migrant sorting” by criminal status, according to a paper published in the Daedalus journal. Since then, the definition of an “aggravated felony” has expanded to include 21 categories of offenses. From Drugs to Terrorism.

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