JURIST

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This year the Supreme Court has overruled precedents and ceded “ground to state death penalty laws and procedures,” with the majority citing that they must not encroach on “ the State’s sovereign power to enforce societal norms through criminal law.”

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 30, 2016

Landing in Orlando to catch an evening Uber to the hotel marked the beginning of our time with The Florida Bar at their 2016 annual convention. In true form to their association, I didn’t make it 20 feet inside the lobby before I was greeted by Florida public interest attorney Kimberly Sanchez. Abadin, and Bill Schifino.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 28, 2023

There was a bizarre arrest in Palm Coast, Florida, where Shawn Madden, 40, proved that he was no threat by stripping naked and asking “where’s my weapon?” ” There is ample evidence to support charges of disorderly conduct and exposure in the video below.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Edward Druzolowski, 78, is facing a second-degree murder charge in Florida after gunning down his neighbor over a tree cutting dispute. We have previously discussed Castle Doctrine laws or “make my day” laws, including other cases involving garage shootings or shootings off the property of the homeowner. Raymond , 23 Colo.

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JULY 28, 2022

Conversely, Jacksonville (Duval County, Florida), a relatively conservative jurisdiction, eliminates up to 30 percent after thorough screening. is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. It is supported by the Safety + Justice Challenge at the John D.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 29, 2021

However, in Florida, it is triggered by the familial relationship: 741.28? Department” means the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. (2)? The latter charge is interesting because domestic violence is usually associated with violence in the home. Domestic violence; definitions : (1)?

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2021

We are now seeing an increasing number of prosecutions for the selling for false vaccine cards as a huge number of reported fake cards flood the country. This week we also saw an arrest for the use of such cards at an airport. NBC Miami reported that Enzo and Daniela Dalmazzo were arrested when they tried to fly to Hawaii.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 14, 2021

. — Whoever shall resist, obstruct, or oppose any officer as defined in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Lucie, has a novel concept of self-help remedies in the law. It turns out that that is not a viable criminal defense. Bradford Weitzel, of Port St. Weitzel, 33, stole the car of Jose William Ceballos and then left it stuck on a train track where it was subsequently demolished.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

David Moerschel, 43, of Tampa, Florida, and Brian Ulrich, 43, of Guyton, Georgia, are similarly charged with federal offenses that include conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting, and entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds.

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The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. The full Duke Law Journal paper can be accessed here. In addition, people suspected of being noncitizens are subjected to increased jail time , the paper said.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 30, 2022

We have previously discussed the murder of Florida State University Law Professor Dan Markel (left) and suspicions that the family of his wife (and fellow FSA faculty member) Wendi Adelson conspired in the murder. The wealthy family runs a dental practice in South Florida. First a recap to bring you back up to speed.

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SimplyLawJobs

JULY 5, 2021

As a legal advisor at Irwin Mitchell, you are given the opportunity to learn about different areas of law very quickly. As a law graduate, whilst I knew I had an interest in criminal law, I wanted to be sure! Most areas of law are different in practice, compared to university so it’s important to try them out.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2021

As recounted earlier , in 2008, Tarahrick Terry, then in his early 20s, was arrested in Florida for carrying just under 4 grams of crack cocaine. The crack-cocaine disparity had largely come to symbolize an ineffective and counter-productive war on drugs and a racist criminal law system. He was charged under 21 U.S.C. §

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 21, 2024

A pair of cases challenging Texas and Florida’s controversial social media laws took center stage. While the state laws are slightly different, both limit social media platforms’ ability to engage in content moderation by removing, editing, or arranging user-generated content. NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton and Moody v. McIntosh v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 22, 2024

For years, we have been following the bizarre murder-for-hire case involving the fatal shooting of Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel. Adelson and Markel married in 2006 when she was a third-year law student at the University of Miami and he was a criminal law professor at FSU.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2017

What is at issue in the Georgia case is a criminal statute similar to those found in many states that prohibits the unauthorized transfer of various recordings, including pre-1972 sound recordings, without permission of the owner of the master recording.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2021

She was charged with felony battery of a law-enforcement officer. The police department initially sought to fire Rodriguez but the South Florida Police Benevolent Association successfully opposed the termination. Under Florida law , this would seem an open-and-shut case of battery: 784.03? What you going to do?”.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

. — Whoever shall resist, obstruct, or oppose any officer as defined in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 12, 2022

A novel lawsuit in Florida has been filed by the parents of Gabby Petito against the parents of Brian Laundrie, Chris and Roberta Laundrie. Brian Laundrie reportedly returned to his parents’ home in Florida on Sept. North Port (FL) Police Department. calls nor texts could be delivered, and she blocked her on Facebook.”.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2021

” That adage was most evident this week in Florida as Ronnie Oneal III represented himself into a rapid double murder conviction. YouTube Screenshot. It is often said that “He who represents himself has a fool for a client.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

The column ran after a similar controversy unfolded in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where a person was killed and others injured by a Dodge Ram that crashed into a crowd at a gay pride event. Without waiting for any facts, Ft.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2024

Arizona’s Supreme Court found on Tuesday that a 159-year-old law banning abortion is enforceable following the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn abortion rights case Roe v Wade, sending a 52-year-old case back to trial court. But despite the injunction, Arizona lawmakers never repealed the law, so it remained on the books.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Cargill , the justices will decide whether a “bump stock” – an attachment that transforms a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic, assault-style weapon – is a “machinegun,” which is generally prohibited under federal law. Two federal courts of appeals struck down the regulation. This definition, the U.S. In National Rifle Association v.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 11, 2017

The 67th Annual Florida Bar Convention returned to Boca Raton, Florida. Like previous years, the beautiful Boca Raton Resort & Club was paired with The Florida Bar’s accoutrements de jure which include informative sessions, numerous networking opportunities, social media sharing, and plenty to talk about.

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MAY 16, 2023

That law is not just another, so-called “bathroom bill”—legislation intended to prevent transgender people from using restrooms that align with their gender identity; it also reaches “ locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers.” Kansas lawmakers recently overrode their governor’s veto so they could enact S.B.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar made national headlines by opening a criminal investigation into the recent flights arranged by Florida of undocumented migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Florida has responded with signed waivers by the migrants. Three filed a complaint against the state.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Hillary Clinton today agreed with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough that Florida Gov. ” In fairness to Scarborough and Clinton, some law professors have echoed this view which is wholly at odds with not just the governing statutory provisions but controlling case law. It is a legal term and a serious crime. Under 22 U.S.C.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The case also presents the question whether a public-accommodation law that authorizes secular but not religious exemptions is generally applicable under Employment Division v. A number of challenges to such laws have reached the court over the years, but National Pork Producers Council v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, that would violate the Constitution and several Acts of Congress. Eventually, the Justice Department’s settlement practice faced media, academic and congressional criticism on the ground that it violated federal statutory law and the Constitution.

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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.” to be charged criminally for transporting 36 people to Sacramento. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 9, 2024

Petocz’s activism, including opposing the Florida parental rights law, has been widely celebrated in the media including an article that featured him in a January 2022 front story on fighting conservative school boards. I’d implore you to trust a student activist over rich, powerful, white men, but that’s your choice.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ellison’s parents are Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors; Bankman-Fried’s parents are Stanford Law professors. Joseph Bankman , a longtime Stanford Law School tax professor, was a paid employee of his son and helped promote the company. million house in Old Fort Bay, a gated community in Nassau.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Florida Southern District Court. Giuffre insists that Prince Andrew is not covered in the agreement, which was connected to the controversial resolution of the charges in Florida against Epstein. The law is needed because Giuffre’s action against Prince Andrew would be otherwise time-barred. Prince Andrew argues that.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2021

It is also notable that Kent was working with Florida businessman Stephen Alford, who reportedly was convicted of fraud. However, he insisted that “I explained that in no way am I trying to extort him and that if he decides not to help us, he’ll never hear from me again.”. That brings us to the document obtained by the Washington Examiner.

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