JURIST

JUNE 12, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that “reckless” crimes qualify as violent felonies for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). ” Petitioner Charles Borden Jr. ” Petitioner Charles Borden Jr.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Carla Laroche. Black women are leading the fight to secure and safeguard voting rights in the U.S. Plenty of U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The videotape does appear to satisfy the standard for the use of lethal force under Tennessee v. Garner and other case law. ” That language is derived from Tennessee v. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Police told local media that, at 4:32 p.m., Garner , 471 U.S. In Graham v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

There is a troubling case in Tennessee this week where Pamela Moses has been given six years and one day in prison for illegally registering to vote last November. She has an extensive record of felony convictions. It is an exceptionally severe sentence, particularly due to the mitigating circumstances in the case.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

Channeling Tennessee Williams in his play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Judge Scott McAfee wrote that, after their testimony, there remained “an odor of mendacity.” This came after the Justice Department had allowed the statute of limitations to run out on major felonies and scuttled efforts to conduct searches and interviews.

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