Constitutional Law Felony Laws 
JURIST
JULY 1, 2024
The proposed amendment allows the General Assembly to make other felonies unbailable. However, the accused of these felonies can be detained without bail under two conditions in addition to sufficient proof of committing the offense. The only capital offense in Delaware is first-degree murder.
Constitutional Law Reporter
APRIL 30, 2024
Facts of the Case After petitioner Damian McElrath killed his mother, the State of Georgia charged him with three crimes related to her death: malice murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault. The court vacated both the malice-murder and felony-murder verdicts pursuant to Georgia’s so-called repugnancy doctrine, and authorized retrial.
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JonathanTurley
JUNE 7, 2023
At issue was the federal “felon-in-possession” law—18 U.S.C. § The federal law makes it “unlawful for any person. When his wife recently bought him a deer-hunting rifle, he learned that he was barred under federal law. See Saul Cornell, A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment , 22 LAW & HIST. 161, 165 (2004).
Constitutional Law Reporter
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Supreme Court recently agreed to consider a case that is expected to define the scope of federal identity theft law. The appeals court found that the “plain meaning” of the word “use” is “to employ for the accomplishment of some purpose” or “ ‘to avail oneself of,” (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary 1776 (10th ed. Facts of the Case.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 11, 2023
That appears to be the case of Emory law professor, Darren Hutchinson , who has claimed that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was “basically a Klansman.” Hutchinson recounted on Twitter how he taught a difficult lesson at Emory Law School on how “Justice Scalia was basically a Klansman.”
Constitutional Law Reporter
JUNE 29, 2021
Former Georgia police sergeant Nathan Van Buren used his patrol-car computer to access a law enforcement database to retrieve information about a particular license plate number in exchange for money. The post SCOTUS Adopts Narrow Interpretation of Computer Fraud Act appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
The government presented no such evidence at Jones’s trial – under the law at the time, it didn’t have to in order to sustain a conviction – and although he had 11 prior felony convictions, Jones testified that he believed his record had been expunged. Thus, Jones argues, he is serving a prison term for conduct that is not a crime.
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