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North Carolina man sentenced for threatening House Speaker Pelosi after US Capitol riot

JURIST

The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The man, Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr., pleaded guilty to interstate communication of threats.

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What’s an “occasion”? Scope of Armed Career Criminal Act depends on the answer.

SCOTUSBlog

The Supreme Court will answer this question in Wooden v. The court will hear oral argument on Monday, the first day of the 2021-22 term and the first time the justices will be back in the courtroom for an in-person hearing in more than 18 months. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit agreed with the government.

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Beards and Brady (i.e., religious freedom and criminal procedure)

SCOTUSBlog

Muslim prisoner argues that Georgia corrections’ limit on beard lengths violates his religious exercise. Ward , Lester Smith maintains that the Georgia Department of Corrections is not following the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Holt v. After Holt , Georgia corrections allowed all inmates to grow half-inch beards.

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Perhaps defining an “occasion” is not so difficult after all

SCOTUSBlog

Share William Dale Wooden burglarized 10 units in a single storage facility, and pleaded guilty to 10 counts of burglary in Georgia state court. The question the Supreme Court faced in Wooden v. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. The difference was not just semantic. Petty , a 1986 case in the U.S.

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Truth, Lies and Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

In a forthcoming paper in the Georgia State University Law Review, Thea Johnson argues that lying is at the heart of a plea bargaining process that “allows defendants the opportunity to negotiate fair resolutions to their cases in the face of a deeply unfair system.”. Lies about facts are used by parties to manipulate evidence in a case.

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The Continuing Battle Over LinkedIn Profiles and the Applicability of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

The IP Law Blog

LinkedIn Corporation , in which the Court agreed with a lower court that had issued a preliminary injunction against LinkedIn from taking certain technical measures to prevent HiQ, a data analytics company, from “scraping” information from publicly available profiles on LinkedIn’s site. Supreme Court, Van Buren v. 1648 (2021).

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SCOTUS Adopts Narrow Interpretation of Computer Fraud Act

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court held that an individual “exceeds authorized access” when he accesses a computer with authorization but then obtains information located in particular areas of the computer—such as files, folders, or databases— that are off-limits to him. A jury convicted Van Buren, and the District Court sentenced him to 18 months in prison.

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