The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

District Judge David Counts has ruled that a federal law barring people under felony indictment from purchasing guns is unconstitutional, reports the Washington Post. Counts argued that the law’s prohibitions clashed with the high court’s June decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. The authors are public defenders in New York City. His sentence was one year on Rikers Island — a “good deal” for simple firearm possession in New York City. A preview of the case is here.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Delligatti v. The court granted the case certiorari and added it to its docket for the 2024 to 2025 term. ” However, this definition has emerged as controversial as courts have disagreed over applying the definition. This brings the court to the issue in Delligatti v.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Limits Sweep of Law on Mandatory Minimum Sentences; Violent felonies committed recklessly do not count in deciding whether 15-year terms are required under the Armed Career Criminal Act, the justices ruled”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” Jordan S. .”

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The Crime Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The Supreme Court has ruled that a series of burglaries carried out by William Dale Wooden, who pleaded guilty to ten counts of the offense in 1997 and was convicted of being a felon in possession of a gun more than a decade later, took place on a single occasion, thus sparing Wooden from a longer sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2023

A man who shot and killed an alleged mugger in Queens returned to court last week on weapons charges after police officers recovered an ‘arsenal’ of illegal firearms from his apartment. Foehner has been charged with seven felony counts under state law and one misdemeanor under New York City administrative law.

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2022

Jagger Freeman has been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison because of New York’s felony murder law, a legal concept that broadens the crime of murder to include those who set into motion a series of events that lead to a person’s death, regardless of their intent, The Gothamist reports.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 23, 2021

“‘Hot Pursuit’ Doesn’t Always Justify Entry, Supreme Court Rules; The mere flight of a person suspected of a minor crime, without more, does not allow police officers to enter homes without warrants, the court said”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

The plea deal was weighed as appropriate to dismiss the felony charges, given Black’s willingness to cooperate in the case.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Since the Supreme Court struck down New York’s longstanding gun law, lower courts have ruled heavily against restricting guns, reports Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal. . The June 23 ruling in N ew York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Is Encouraging Unauthorized Immigration Free Speech or a Felony? Adam Liptak, The New York Times). The post The morning read for Monday, Jan.

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JURIST

MARCH 22, 2023

US Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Rick Scott (R-FL) Wednesday introduced new legislation that would bar Congress members from collecting pensions funded through taxes if they receive a felony conviction tied to their position as a congressperson. It’s past time that corrupt members of Congress are held accountable.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Public defenders in New York City have accused Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD of improperly using sealed criminal court records to manipulate public perception of bail reform’s impact on repeat crime, Matt Katz reports for the Gothamist. At the center of the controversy?

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

More than 60 crimes fall under the hate crime statute in New York, from simple menacing to possession of a biological weapon. The state data shows that the more serious felony arrests for hate crimes yielded felony convictions — whether as a hate crime or not — in 19 percent of the cases closed citywide between 2015 and 2020.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Southern District Court in New York. Downey’s home was searched following a multiagency investigation into the alleged purchase of illegal gun parts, says Rockland County District Attorney Tom Walsh announced in a news release last week. A felony conviction would force Downey out of office.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 3, 2021

was arrested and charged with rape in March, reigniting a discussion throughout the state about how the justice system deals with so-called young offenders, reports the New York Times. Of those that do, only North Carolina, at age 6, has a lower minimum than New York.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Facebook plug-ins violate the Wiretap Act and whether the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms outside the home or after a conviction for a nonviolent offense. Acknowledging a circuit split, the U.S.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. In the last 17 months, 20 people have died in New York’s notorious jail facility on Rikers Island, the majority of whom were pre-trial detainees.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court made substantial progress at last week’s conference to reduce the accumulation of relisted cases. But the court denied review without recorded dissent to two-time relist Alaska v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Voting with unpaid fines or court fees. Accord­ing to Bolton, offi­cials told him he had regained his voting rights, and he was unaware that court debts he owed from unre­lated past convic­tions would render him ineligible. Kelvin Bolton was arres­ted at a home­less shel­ter earlier this year in Gaines­ville, Fla. His alleged crime?

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Recent media coverage about New York State’s bail reform and its relationship to an uptick in crime in the five boroughs has been misleading, particularly in using newly released data to conflate bail reform with a program in New York City called supervised release. Melanie Skemer.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed rolling back his state’s raise the age law that, in 2017, had moved 16- and 17-year-olds out of New York’s violent Rikers Island jails and into its more rehabilitative family court. We have seen this movie before. Follow him @VinSchiraldi.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Nasheem Heath’s participation in a program for young felony offenders kept him out jail. Upon his release, he entered an alternative-to-incarceration court program for youthful felony offenders and was sentenced to probation. The court for young, under-resourced offenders is modeled after adult diversion courts.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

By night he drafted court documents for judges to sign. As a subsequent ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals finally made clear, the arrangement was not a momentary lapse in judgment or a one-time offense induced under pressure. A recent New York ruling shows just how far immunity has metastasized. Alexa Gervasi.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

In some examples cited in the paper, a Virginia defendant in Virginia charged with transporting marijuana pleaded guilty to trafficking a different type of drug altogether; a New York defendant charged with animal cruelty pleaded guilty to trespassing even though no trespassing was involved.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

PERF invited Shields and the police chiefs of New York City, Portland, Ore., New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said his violent crime problem was largely confined to just 10 of the city’s 77 precincts. He said the slowdown in courts “is killing us.”. New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

People who run summer camps included in the new sensitive location definitions wonder if popular riflery courses for children are now a crime. It will be a felony to have a gun at sports venues. states, and home to 130,000 people, is also included under the new law.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

in 2018, but Florida law requires that a jury determine a sentence of either death or life in prison for capital felonies, the Associated Press reports. The New York Times is carrying live coverage of the jury trial , which is expected to last months. Cruz is the first perpetrator of a shooting that size to face a jury.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2022

A week earlier, when a lone gunman terrorized subway riders in New York City , it was a miracle no one died. In some states, residents couldn’t previously obtain a permit to carry if they had been convicted of resisting law enforcement or had juvenile adjudications that would have been felonies had the person been an adult.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has declared a “first-in-the-nation” disaster state of emergency regarding the rise in gun violence — which Cuomo says has now taken more lives than the COVID-19 pandemic, and is a growing threat to the broader economic recovery and at-risk youth, report the Wall Street Journal and Fox News. .

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 13, 2023

Following action by Oregon’s governor to commute all of its state’s death sentences, Bob Egelko in the San Francisco Chronicle and Blake Hounshell in the New York Times examined whether Governor Gavin Newsom might do the same in California. (It Few clues to state high court’s crackdown on governor’s clemency grants”.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

A common misconception, perpetuated by popular television shows and movies, as well as the Sixth Amendment, is that everyone gets their day in court. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. The courts are not for landless laborers.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Pfizer challenged the Agency’s interpretation as contrary to law under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in the Southern District of New York. Similarly, the Court drew on the plain meaning of “willfully” to reject Pfizer’s argument that the term suggests “an element of corruption.” Pfizer, Inc. July 25, 2022.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Kovaleski reports for the New York Times. As courts around the country are asked to determine whether the longstanding federal restriction on marijuana, which classifies it as having no currently accepted medical use, conflicts with Second Amendment gun rights. Federal judges in Oklahoma and Texas, as well as the U.S.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Now, after an unfavorable HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) advisory opinion and two defeats in court, Pfizer has appealed the Second Circuit’s decision to the Supreme Court. Pfizer challenged the OIG’s interpretation as contrary to law in a lawsuit brought in the Southern District of New York (SDNY).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. The court therefore found that the stay was unauthorized and vacated it.

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