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New York law sealing criminal records for certain offenses takes effect

JURIST

A New York law sealing certain criminal records took effect on Saturday, one year after New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed it into law. Under the law, c riminal records for convictions of certain vehicle and traffic laws are sealed after three years from the conviction.

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The Role of a Criminal Law Paralegal

Paralegal Bootcamp

Then, an opportunity came along to work for the County Public Defender’s Office, defending people in misdemeanor, felony, and now the only paralegal in the office on capital cases. So, what are the things we do that get YOU thinking this could be the best career decision you make as a Criminal Law Paralegal?

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Attacking Store Workers for Enforcing Rules on Wearing Face Masks: Now a Felony in Illinois

Nolo's Blog

Still, unless the worker is seriously injured as a result, it’s usually only a misdemeanor. The post Attacking Store Workers for Enforcing Rules on Wearing Face Masks: Now a Felony in Illinois appeared first on Nolo. Of course, it’s already a crime in most states to do anything like this (or to attack anyone else, for that matter).

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NYC Transit Safety Endangered by Reforms, Reduced Enforcement: Paper

The Crime Report

“Over the five arrests made for six of the 10 subway murders since March 2020, four of the suspects, allegedly responsible for five murders among them, had had previous run-ins with the law for alleged or convicted violent offenses.”. felonies fell by 15 percent?helped violent felonies per million rides, it was still 3.1

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The ‘Assembly-Line’ Justice of Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

As a society, we eventually decided that faster access to Model Ts and Mustangs didn’t justify the horrific harms of the assembly line, and we passed laws and filed lawsuits to make the process safer. This despite the fact that we know myriad innocent people charged with felonies plead guilty. How did we get here?

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The Secret Success of Federal Probationers

The Crime Report

Similarly, the Commission found that nearly half of supervision violators engaged in new felony conduct, but the figure for probation violations was only one-third. Supervised release , by contrast, is a term of supervision that follows imprisonment , applicable to any defendant convicted of a felony or grade-A misdemeanor.

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Protests Arise at UW-Madison After Alleged Assailants of Chinese Student are Charged with Misdemeanors in Brutal Attack

JonathanTurley

There is a controversy at the University of Wisconsin this week after the Dane County District Attorney’s Office in Wisconsin filed misdemeanor battery charges against three teens suspected in the brutal assault of a UW-Madison Chinese PhD student. The reason, however, appears a key distinction in the Wisconsin criminal code.