JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The statement could effectively knock out the misdemeanor gun possession count — the one count that could still be in play for the jury after the prosecution’s case on the more serious offense appeared to collapse in court. It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute. I have a legal education.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

The case came to the court after Charles Borden Jr. At sentencing, the government sought an enhancement under the ACCA; it claimed that three of Borden’s prior felony convictions were violent felonies. He asserted that one of the felonies the government cited included recklessness, and, therefore, was not a violent felony.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 24, 2022

Immunity for law enforcement : The court granted-and-held in Nelson v. County of Riverside , which is expected to decide whether immunity under Government Code section 821.6 Supreme Court, which, in reversing a First District, Division Five, decision ( People v. In a rare ruling, the court granted review in Munoz v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” As the United States Supreme Court ruled in National Ass’n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Winston , 199 S.E.2d

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Pugin v. The role of the court, he began, was not to craft a new federal obstruction of justice offense, “but rather to determine which state or federal offenses ‘relate to obstruction of justice.’” Such “redundancies are common in statutory drafting,” Kavanaugh wrote.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

People walk dangerous routes when the government eliminates or fails to provide legal avenues that are safe, permanent and predictable whether it’s across the street or across an international border. In 1969, the Supreme Court held in Shapiro v. When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S. Thompson that U.S.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At its conference yesterday, a double one, the Supreme Court ruled on a robust 164 matters. The court granted review in EpicentRx, Inc. Had the defendant’s conviction been of a misdemeanor instead of later reduced to a misdemeanor, lifetime registration would have been discretionary instead of mandatory.

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