The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

People with felony or violent misdemeanor convictions, restraining orders, or serious mental illness are all included on the list. The new office will support operations to seize firearms from dangerous people on the state’s database, the Armed and Prohibited Persons System.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

While possession prohibitors are critical to public and survivors’ safety, they cannot account for indicators of dangerousness that do not result in an active court record. This law was challenged by an abuser, who claimed it violated his Second Amendment rights.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

United States , the Supreme Court analyzed the Armed Career Criminal Act ’s force clause or elements clause. In this case, the court had to decide whether the term “violent felony” includes crimes committed with a reckless state of mind. The case came to the court after Charles Borden Jr. Share In Borden v.

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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. The problem with the Wisconsin statute is not a problem of pluralization but definition. .”

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At the Lectern

APRIL 15, 2024

Nick Scheuerman writes on SCOCAblog , the online publication of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law and of the UC Law Journal , that “the California Supreme Court generally does not interpret the California constitution independently [of the federal constitution]. Instead, the state high court generally follows the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. In 2009, the New York courts ruled that Metro workers were not legally required to assist a woman being raped at a station. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. That was the holding in the famous ruling in Yania v. French, 104 Pa.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

55-8-136, which is a Class C misdemeanor, the statute of limitations for plaintiff’s action was extended to two years pursuant to Tenn. Defendant filed a motion for summary judgment based on the statute of limitations issue, but the trial court ruled in favor of plaintiff, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Code Ann. §

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At the Lectern

MARCH 24, 2022

There were no straight grants at the Supreme Court’s conference yesterday, with only six justices participating because newly confirmed Justice Patricia Guerrero has not yet been sworn in. Immunity for law enforcement : The court granted-and-held in Nelson v. will have to come from our Supreme Court, rather than from us.’

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. 568, 572 (1942), the Court has sharply abridged the application that exception.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold a federal law which bans domestic abusers from owning guns In one of the most high-profile cases of this year. Last month on November 7, Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments in United States v. The respondent, Zachey Rahimi, was represented by federal public defender Matthew Wright.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether they were convicted of serious felonies or misdemeanors, registrants must check in with their sheriff’s office and pay $20 every three months. The majority of the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state Legislature didn’t intend for the system to be a punishment, and therefore can’t be considered cruel or unusual punishment.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Pugin v. The question came to the court in the cases of two men, Jean Francois Pugin and Fernando Cordero-Garcia, both permanent residents of the United States who had lived in the country for decades. In Cordero-Garcia’s case, the U.S. citizen].”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

side without going through a designated port of entry, that same action becomes a misdemeanor or even a felony , depending on the circumstances. . In 1969, the Supreme Court held in Shapiro v. When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S. Decriminalizing jaywalking was a measure of equity. Thompson that U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2023

A federal court in Guam Friday denied a request to reinstate a total abortion ban on the island of Guam. Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood of the District Court of Guam ruled that the original permanent injunction from 1990, which blocked Public Law No. 20-134 , should remain in effect. 20-134 , should remain in effect.

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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. ” The Supreme Court has a similar forum selection case under review — Gerro v. The Supreme Court denied review in Brooks. Actions of note included: Forum selection.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Here is the column: This past week the American Civil Liberties Union honored the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the one-year anniversary of her death — by rewriting her famous defense of a woman’s right to abortion to remove offensive language. This already is being litigated in some lower courts.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

percent of federal criminal cases in 1962, but just over 2 percent in 2015, effectively turning trials into what former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called “a system of pleas, not a system of trials.” the United States , the Court in 1966 limited jury trials in lower offenses. justice system. Juries decided 8.2

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But in a recent podcast interview with a pair of east county campaign supporters, Knox described her opposition to new state laws and court rulings that provide greater leniency for juvenile offenders, including her concerns that California now offers a chance to teens sentenced to life without parole.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

which states a person who commits any primary offense — such as misdemeanor property destruction — with the intent to “intimidate or terrorize another person or with reason to believe that his action would intimidate or terrorize that person” is subject to a class B misdemeanor primary offense becoming a class A misdemeanor.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“ Travis County judges can’t hear appeals from migrants arrested under Texas border security push, court rules ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning released a long list of orders from the justices private conference on Feb. Over dissents or statements from several justices, the court denied review in cases that they had considered repeatedly at their recent conferences. 21 the first regularly scheduled conference in nearly a month.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. The Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act. Alvarez , the Court held 6-3 that it is unconstitutional to criminalize lies — in that case lying about receiving military decorations or medals. In United States v. What does that even mean?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

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. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.” FEATURED CASE. ExxonMobil Corp.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.” This week in the Supreme Court, a glimpse of the legal landscape outside of Manhattan came more sharply into view.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

It was due to the paucity of direct evidence of a crime that would hold up in court. Colorado, the Supreme Court ruled that criminal threats must be based on a showing of a culpable mental state. In so holding, the Court sought to offer “‘breathing space’ for protected speech.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Gretchen Whitmer for her misrepresentation of a state supreme court ruling that she violated the state constitution in her pandemic orders, a false account echoed by NBC’s Chuck Todd. However, this was a legal dispute on the scope of her discretion that was resolved by the state courts. I have been highly critical of Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2024

The hearings this week may reveal conduct that reaches the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. It is also true, in my opinion, that none of those things amount to high crimes and misdemeanors warranting his impeachment. If Mayorkas is violating federal law, he can be brought to court to enjoin his actions.

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