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International issues in criminal law: Extradition of El Chapo and extraterritoriality in Nigeria

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether defendants have standing to assert violations of an extradition treaty and whether the wire fraud statute applies extraterritorially to reach a defendant’s conduct committed only in Nigeria. Ojedokun v. Guzman Loera v.

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Government seeks review of federal gun regulations on domestic abusers, bump stocks

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Both cases arise under the federal firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. § Enacted by Congress in 1994, Section 922(g)(8) criminalizes gun ownership by anyone subject to a domestic-violence restraining order. Courts of Appeals for the 6th, 10th, and District of Columbia Circuits that rejected challenges to the bump-stock regulation.

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Ninth Circuit Rules Against Las Vegas Officer in Anti-Police Protest Case

JonathanTurley

When Plaintiffs refused to stop chalking, Sergeant Wallace decided to issue a citation to each plaintiff for violation of Nevada’s graffiti statute, which criminalizes conduct that “places graffiti on or otherwise defaces the public or private property, real or personal, of another, without the permission of the owner.” .

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Justices take up bump stock dispute

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But even if the definition were not clear, the 5th Circuit continued, bump stocks should be excluded from the definition of “machinegun” under the rule of lenity, a doctrine that instructs courts to apply ambiguous criminal laws in the way that is most favorable to defendants. The 6th Circuit ruled that the regulation is ambiguous.

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Could Cosby Sue For Wrongful Conviction?

JonathanTurley

Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have statutes allowing for recovery for wrongful convictions and imprisonment. One question is whether Cosby could now sue for not just the prosecution but the incarceration in light of the ruling of the Supreme Court. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising).

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We read all the amicus briefs in New York State Rifle so you don’t have to

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Professors of Second Amendment law and the Bay Colony Weapons Collectors argue that the founders deliberately broadened English gun rights, which, The Firearms Policy Coalition at George Mason University writes, already provided for the right to carry a weapon in public for self-defense. Textualism And Originalism. Heller and McDonald v.

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DC Council withdraws bill prior to US Senate vote, hoping to avoid overturn

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Washington DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson Monday sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris–in her capacity as president of the US Senate–stating that he is withdrawing a bill that would change DC’s criminal laws. Mendelson discussed the letter during a press conference Monday.