Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 1, 2021

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases last week. California , which involves whether police pursuits for misdemeanors justify a warrantless entry, an issue which has divided the lower courts. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two other cases. Below is a brief summary: Florida v.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2021

The couple now faces misdemeanor charges with the potential for a fine, year in prison or both. In addition, if real enforcement leads to hundreds of thousands of arrests, courts are likely to reflect the ubiquitous violations as reason to lower sentences.

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The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

Jain argued that jailhouse screenings affect the criminal justice process as they often make the various steps in the criminal process harder and disproportionately affect those arrested of misdemeanors versus felonies. Brown had to spend three weeks in jail waiting for his court appearance?time Although he explained he is a legal U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Gavin Newsom (D., for kidnapping charges against Gov.

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JURIST

MAY 14, 2024

Carney sentenced 21-year-old Xavier Batten of Florida to 42 months in prison for conspiring to firebomb a Planned Parenthood clinic, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a statement Monday. Many of the incidents followed the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. US District Judge Cormac J.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Attorney Coleman was born and raised in Tallahassee, Fl and attended Florida State University with dual degrees in English (Creative Writing) and Spanish. In Florida, you must become a lawyer before you can apply for Judgeship. On the criminal side, I handle low level misdemeanors up to felonies. You are a successful attorney.

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2022

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to outlaw protests outside private residences, making it a second-degree misdemeanor to picket or protest outside a person’s house to “harass or disturb” that person, reports the Washington Post. The law aims to prevent protests in Florida like the ones outside U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

On the Republican side, Florida attorney Bill Price is facing a more direct and serious investigation than Abrams (who has not been personally implicated in such actions). Now we have a video of Price speaking to Bay County GOP members in Florida calling for registrations using false addresses. The date is notable. It was Nov.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Courts would describe the behavior as coercion in any other context. Supreme Court’s cramped interpretations of the Fourth Amendment enable these sorts of abuses. The result is not only the erosion of constitutional rights, but also loss of respect for law enforcement, which a University of Central Florida study confirms.

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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 in 2014), and the percentage of defendants released pending trial who showed up for pretrial court appearances declined to 89.4 percent, from 92.7

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The Crime Report

JUNE 9, 2021

Prosecutors allege that van der Veen’s client, Marine Corps veteran Jason Dolan of Florida, is affiliated with the extremist militia group the Oath Keepers and that he helped plan, and ultimately participated in the storming of the Capitol. have charged both women with unlawful entry of public property, a misdemeanor.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

He would weaponize the law against his opponents as he always does—taking it to the court of public opinion. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart of the Southern District of Florida, and that he was now filing a motion with Reinhart for the list of classified documents to be released to the public. But the double-talk continued.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2023

It may foreshadow an equally historic trial in the Florida courthouse. After a period of briefing before the trial court, appellate courts could delay the matter for months depending on whether they expedite review. Identifying such bias will be a challenge for the court and counsel. Those numbers are 90, 70, 12 and 1.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. Some things are happily left out of the courts. One such case now in court was brought by Amanda DuVall, 28. She is asking for $75,000 but Walmart moved the case to federal court and is contesting the case. For example, in Weirum v.

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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. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The Supreme Court on Thursday released the calendar for its February argument session, which begins on Feb. immigration courts. The other cases scheduled for the February argument session are: Florida v. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court. Georgia (Feb. Dai & Rosen v. Alcaraz-Enriquez (Feb.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies. With additional criminal indictments coming to courts in Georgia, Washington, D.C., It all depends on the decision of the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2025

Those appellate issues include charges based on a novel criminal theory through which New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg not only zapped a dead misdemeanor into life (after the expiration of the statute of limitation) but based a state charge on federal election law and federal taxation violations. Sen.John Fetterman(D-Pa.)

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Trump’s greatest threat of conviction remains in Florida, where he is facing federal charges related to his retention of classified documents. For instance, Sidney Powell stated that Trump clearly believed that he had won the election when he was challenging the results in the courts and Congress.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2025

On May 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the federal governments efforts to be able to generally implement President Trumps executive order ending birthright citizenship the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States. What happened in the lower courts? How many cases are there?

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