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The Role of a Criminal Law Paralegal

Paralegal Bootcamp

Then, an opportunity came along to work for the County Public Defender’s Office, defending people in misdemeanor, felony, and now the only paralegal in the office on capital cases. So, what are the things we do that get YOU thinking this could be the best career decision you make as a Criminal Law Paralegal? Conflict Checks.

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Bowman Video Contradicts His Account to Congress, the Court, and the Public

JonathanTurley

Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor after he was caught on videotape pulling a fire alarm in the middle of a key vote to avoid a government shutdown. The misdemeanor was the charge that I discussed when this first arose. There was not even a glance back to see if the door opened.

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Protests Arise at UW-Madison After Alleged Assailants of Chinese Student are Charged with Misdemeanors in Brutal Attack

JonathanTurley

There is a controversy at the University of Wisconsin this week after the Dane County District Attorney’s Office in Wisconsin filed misdemeanor battery charges against three teens suspected in the brutal assault of a UW-Madison Chinese PhD student. The reason, however, appears a key distinction in the Wisconsin criminal code.

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Truth, Lies and Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

Most bizarrely, in 2007, a Kansas court allowed a defendant to plead guilty to “attempted second-degree unintentional murder” even though the court acknowledged that “no such crime existed.”. Lies about law involve lawyers twisting statutes until they no longer represent the original law.

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The ‘Assembly-Line’ Justice of Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

There, local prosecutors in the county’s Early Disposition Courts make plea offers “substantially harsher”—their words—if people accused of crimes merely assert their constitutional rights during negotiation. In these courts, prosecutors withhold all discovery? Rebecca Brown is Policy Director of the Innocence Project.

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Rep. Bowman Accused of Pulling Fire Alarm in Congressional Building

JonathanTurley

this would constitute a criminal misdemeanor. Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this subsection shall be on information filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

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NYC Transit Safety Endangered by Reforms, Reduced Enforcement: Paper

The Crime Report

In comparison, subway crime had dramatically declined in the three decades prior to the pandemic, largely because of high ridership and “consistent” civil and criminal law enforcement. “In NYPD routinely confiscated handguns and knives from people committing misdemeanors on the subways. Bratton’s success?felonies

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