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Connecticut Troopers Fabricated Hundreds of Traffic Tickets

The Crime Report

In 2018, four Connecticut State Police troopers collectively created hundreds of fake traffic tickets to make it appear they were more productive than they actually were in order to curry favor and perks from supervisors, the Register Citizen reports.

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US Supreme Court declines to hear case regarding jury size in felony trials

JURIST

If it had chosen to hear the case, the court could have decided whether it is inherent within the Constitution that criminal defendants are entitled to a trial by a jury of 12 or more members of the community. This deviation from the standard 12-person jury was permitted by the 1970 US Supreme Court ruling in Williams v.

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Connecticut High School Student Arrested For Posting Racist Slur

JonathanTurley

We have been discussed two areas of concern for free speech in the United States: the increased monitoring of social media speech as grounds of discipline and the push to criminalize speech. 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.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 25, 2021

LLRX

Four highlights from this week: Protect your smartphone from radio-based attacks; New emergency weather alerts set to begin in July - here's what they mean; Accused Capitol Rioter Forced to Unlock Laptop With Face Recognition; and Connecticut pushes cybersecurity with offers of punitive damage protection.

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Paralegal Salaries by State in 2019

LexBlog

Connecticut. “Still Revolutionary, Full of Surprises” For such a small state, Connecticut has the highest average salary across the United States. The average salary for a paralegal in Connecticut is $62,760.00. Paralegal salaries for all states are presented at the end of this article.

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How to Criticize U.S. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (Part I)

Conflict of Laws

criminal law as “an extreme abuse,” China applies its criminal law extraterritorially on all the bases that the United States employs. Each of these bases for jurisdiction to prescribe is consistent with customary international law , and China has the right to extend its criminal law extraterritorially like this.

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Can Criminal Liability and Community Intervention Prevent Future Gun Violence?

The Crime Report

While many states have laws that hold gun owners liable for failing to secure weapons around children, Michigan does not. Because of this, prosecutors are relying on traditional criminal law, forced to prove that the Crumbley parents were not just negligent — but grossly negligent or reckless. .