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An Inside Look into Incarcerated Education

Blackstone Career Institute

An Inside Look into Incarcerated Education There is always an opportunity to grow and improve ones life, even while in prison, and Blackstone Career Institute is here to provide incarcerated education for those who are seeking a way to complete educational courses and expand their knowledge in a job field.

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Patients Went to This Isolated Facility for Treatment. Instead, Nearly Two Dozen Were Charged With Crimes.

The Crime Report

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. Williams, records show, is far from the only patient to have faced criminal charges. Nine months later, the patient was charged with felony battery. Reporters did not identify any charges at two of the four facilities.).

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Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful?

JonathanTurley

I have a legal education.” Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly. Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly. For example, in 1547, the court was faced with a law making it a felony of steal “Horses, Geldings or Mares.”

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Texas city council member argues retaliatory arrest

SCOTUSBlog

In her complaint, Gonzalez noted that she was the only person charged in the past 10 years under the state’s government records law for temporarily misplacing a document. The vast majority of the 215 felony indictments under the law, she explained, involved either the use or the creation of fake government identifications.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminal law.

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

In the first few years of the scandal, Biden associates — and Hunter himself — emphasized that he was a highly educated lawyer with executive-level experience to offer these companies. The problem with this line of defense, however, is that it runs into some glaring contradictions.

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Virginia Becomes Ground Zero in Battles Over Parental Rights

JonathanTurley

She was less specific on the details: “It could be a felony , it could be a misdemeanor, but we know that CPS charge could harm your employment, could harm their education, because nowadays many people do a CPS database search before offering employment.” Abigail Spanberger (D.,