HowAppealing

MARCH 29, 2024

“Texas appeals court overturns Crystal Mason’s conviction, 5-year sentence for illegal voting; Mason gained national attention after she was convicted for voting while under supervised release for felony tax fraud; She said she didn’t know she was ineligible to vote”: Karen Brooks Harper of The Texas Tribune has this report.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Now-retired prosecutor Ralph Petty earned a living at the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in West Texas. By night he drafted court documents for judges to sign. Defense attorneys would have protested if they knew what was going on, but county and court officials kept the arrangement quiet among themselves. The 2nd U.S.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

Texas Rule of Evidence 609(a) provides that Evidence of a criminal conviction offered to attack a witness’s character for truthfulness must be admitted if: (1) the crime was a felony or involved moral turpitude, regardless of punishment; (2) the probative.

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2023

The Texas “ law of parties ” allow prosecutors to seek and secure the execution of individuals involved in what is more generally known as “felony murder” crimes—offenses that involve more than one person, all of whom can be prosecuted as equal participants even though one or more of the participants may have had no direct involvement in the murder.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Environmental activists protesting climate change inaction who shut down the largest US energy export port for a day agreed Friday to pay for the cost of first responders and court costs to settle state criminal charges, according to Reuters. The protestors faced up to two years in prison under the law and fines of up to $500,000.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. Evidence that this disturbing trend is true can be found when taking a closer look at the shift in how the Court has dealt with juvenile cases dating back to 2005.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Michigan courts define gross negligence as “ more than carelessness. He was convicted of all 24 counts brought against him, including terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree premeditated murder, seven counts of assault with intent to murder and 12 counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

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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. . In one recent case, a Texas federal judge ruled that the Constitution allows 18-to-20-year-olds to carry handguns outside for protection.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Resolving the contradiction will require an amendment, according to a paper in the Texas Tech Law Review. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Share The court handed a win to a former-city council member in Texas on Thursday, clearing the way for her federal civil rights claim to move forward. Almost all of the 215 felony indictments under that law, she observed, involved the use or creation of fake government IDs. Under the Supreme Court’s 2019 decision in Nieves v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court granted review on a case raising the question whether Andy Warhol paintings made using a copyrighted photograph were so “transformative” as to be a non-infringing “fair use.” Case in point: Texas v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

s life on March 24, 2023, in an adult Texas prison facility speaks volumes about the ineptitude of the nation’s penal system and the conservative ideological politics of its judicial system in dealing with juvenile offenders. That earned him five additional years in the Texas adult penal system. Supreme Court. That may be.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , to be argued on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether a private individual can sue his state-agency employer for violating the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. USERRA allows individuals to sue non-compliant employers in either state or federal court.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

Gun Safety pledge offered at Austin Texas program. I started looking at gun thefts,” Boyce said, adding that became alarmed after reading about the thousands of guns stolen each year in Texas. Indeed, more guns are stolen from Texas each year than any state in the country. 268,942 Guns Missing in Texas.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Supreme Court recently agreed to consider a case that is expected to define the scope of federal identity theft law. The specific issue before the Court in Dubin v. David Dubin was the managing partner of PARTS, a psychology practice in Texas. David Dubin was the managing partner of PARTS, a psychology practice in Texas.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Singh , in which the court will consider what kind of notice the government must provide before a noncitizen can be deported for not appearing in court. Sheetz came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to apply the court’s Nolland/Dolan test and find the county’s fee a violation of the takings clause. Under 8 U.S.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has ruled that the seating of a biased juror can violate the constitutional right to an impartial jury. The state supreme court disagreed. Three justices dissented from the denial of review.

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The Crime Report

MAY 25, 2021

Informing juries and judges about the cost of incarcerating a defendant would help reduce mass incarceration and recidivism, and curb “over-punishing,” according to a Texas law professor. This results in what commentators have accurately described as a ‘correctional free lunch.’.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has newly relisted six petitions this week, raising three groups of issues. The district court in July 2019 agreed with the Warhol Foundation that the works were a fair use, but the U.S.

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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. Patrick Crusius, the suspect in the mass shooting that killed 23 at an El Paso, Texas shooting in 2019, is still awaiting trial. Most mass shooters do not live to go to trial.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2021

He was tracked down in Texas and arrested due to outstanding warrants for felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault, and felony drug possession. In a notice filed by Assistant Public Defender Adrienne Cousins, the court was informed that “Mr.

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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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JURIST

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against a physician for providing gender transition care to 21 minor patients, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting gender transition medical interventions.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That’s nothing,” Leesa Ross, founder of Texas-based Lock Arms for Life , told The Crime Report. “A Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? The felony charges filed against the Crumbleys could result in a maximum prison sentence of 15 years on each count of involuntary manslaughter. Cassie Chew.

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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. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019. That is unjust in so many ways.”. percent of total arrests and 20.2 percent and 25.1

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. Kovaleski reports for the New York Times.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

McVey had just torn down Feaster’s Nazi flag and he claimed that he was in fear of an “imminent Antifa attack on his home” last June, according to a court motion in the case. 911 (1825), courts have ruled that “[n]o man can do indirectly that which he is forbidden to do directly.” In famous cases like Bird v. Holbrook , 4 Bing.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2025

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, a Houston based midwife, for performing abortions and in the northwest Houston area. This marks the first known criminal arrest of an abortion provider since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely extended a stay blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later stayed that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The laws have produced perverse results as in the controversial case of Tom Horn in Texas. It turned out to be a deputy sheriff but the court found that Courvoisier could rely on reasonable mistaken self-defense. These laws are based on an urban legend that people are routinely prosecuted for defending their homes from intruders.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. Gonzalez came to the Supreme Court, which agreed last fall to weigh in. In 2019, in Nieves v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The complaint below details how Reed stole a handgun from a pawn shop in Texas and livestreamed himself committing a “drive-by” shooting in which he fired the stolen handgun blindly into buildings as he drove past. to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or. .” (Officer Mercer is also African American).The Evans 750 F.2d

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is back in the relist business with a vengeance. The court will be considering 123 petitions and applications at this week’s conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2024

The US Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to permit federal border patrol agents to cut the razor wire that Texas installed on the US-Mexico border. The Biden administration requested the decision to allow federal agents to access the border without facing tort claims from Texas.

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