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Tennessee Justice Advocate Gets 40 Years for Concealing Weapons

The Crime Report

Alex Friedmann, a Nashville criminal justice advocate, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for hiding guns and other weapons in the walls of a Tennessee jail while it was under construction in 2019, reports Kirsten Ficus for USA Today.

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Pair of immigration cases come to the court on key issue in some deportation proceedings

SCOTUSBlog

Congress extended the Immigration and Nationality Act, which regulates immigration into the United States, in 1988 to give immigration enforcement authorities, now the Department of Homeland Security, the power to automatically deport noncitizens convicted of an “aggravated felony” at the state or federal level.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: March 26, 2022 to April 1, 2022

Broadcast Law Blog

For this action to be effective, the Senate would need to also vote on this bill to take the drug off Schedule I, which currently makes its possession and distribution (and the use of radio to promote it), a federal felony. Then the President would have to sign the bill. The permittee faces a $6,500 fine for these violations.

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Justices lean toward narrow reading of aggravated identity theft

SCOTUSBlog

United States felt like a legislation class in law school, with various canons of statutory construction being bandied about. Share In many ways, Monday’s oral argument in Dubin v. Dubin concerns the reach of the federal aggravated identity theft statute and whether a person must steal another’s identity to commit the crime.

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Nashville Advocate Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges Related to Detention Center Plot

The Crime Report

Friedmann was caught on surveillance camera disguising himself as a construction worker in order to hide contraband weapons including firearms and blades within the walls of a then-under-construction detention facility. Friedmann pleaded guilty to federal charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

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Supreme Court will answer teed-up bail questions and decide felony-murder resentencing issue; it depublishes arbitration opinion

At the Lectern

The cases concern resentencing a defendant whose felony-murder conviction is tossed under subsequent legislation narrowing the felony-murder rule. Specifically, the issue is whether a court, when resentencing for the felony underlying the vacated felony-murder conviction, can include an enhancement related to the underlying felony.

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The first relists of October Term 2022

SCOTUSBlog

McDonough , a case that the court already rescheduled seven times last term, and which involves the construction of a statute providing disability pay for members of the military. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, by a divided vote , deferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs construction of the statute under Chevron U.S.A.,