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Five Connecticut Officers Charged for Paralyzing a Man in a Police Van

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The officers were charged with felony cruelty to persons and a misdemeanor charge of second-degree reckless endangerment, according to state police. District Court against the city of New Haven and the five officers involved in transporting him in September. Cox’s lawyers filed a $100 million lawsuit in U.S.

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Connecticut High School Student Arrested For Posting Racist Slur

JonathanTurley

Both of those concerns seem to have coalesced in the arrest of a Connecticut high school student accused of posting racist comments about a classmate. The case could present an important court test for this country in resisting the criminalization of speech that we have seen in Europe. The Connecticut arrest comes as the U.S.

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States Increase Efforts to End ‘Internal Exile’ of Former Incarcerees: Report

The Crime Report

The report focused on legislative achievements in Arizona and Connecticut , two states that issued what it called the most noteworthy laws relating to criminal record expungement. In a report released Monday, CCRC said legislatures around the country were slowly reducing the barriers faced by people with criminal records.

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Utah Self-Defense Law Makes It Harder to Charge Problem Cops

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The new law allows those accused of a crime to ask for an extra court hearing if they believe they acted in self-defense. Individuals charged with a felony or class A misdemeanor can ask for this hearing, unless they are accused of attacking a police officer. In Washington, D.C.,

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The Return of Anthony Comstock: The Abortion Pill Case Raises a Law With A Dark and Troubling Past

JonathanTurley

The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. The relevance of the Comstock Act to the issue of the availability of mifepristone is highly contested and unlikely to draw a majority on the Court. The history of the Act, and its namesake, remains a blot on our legal system.

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. Some things are happily left out of the courts. A Connecticut man was thrown off a bridge on Thanksgiving last year after he intervened to protect a woman in an argument with her boyfriend. Rottjer allegedly admitted to police “I did it.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. Connecticut ; Requested “Tutorial” on Climate Change. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases.

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