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Off-duty Virginia police officer sentenced to 87 months for January 6 riot

JURIST

The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry , former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarri and William Todd Wilson , regional leader of the Oath Keepers , have also been charged in relation to the riot.

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Why Police are ‘Natural Allies’ in the Fight Against Drug Abuse

The Crime Report

The harm reduction organization Eleyvst , the Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance (PRO-A) , and the data firm RIWI sought to do just that with their new, ambitious public opinion survey. And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

JonathanTurley

The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. Now police are reportedly considering criminal charges against passengers who filmed the rape and did not call the police.

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Duquesne Professor Under Fire After White Suicide Lecture

JonathanTurley

Notably, Pennsylvania is a state that makes even the encouragement of suicide a crime under 18 U.S.C. Causing suicide as criminal homicide. –A person may be convicted of criminal homicide for causing another to commit suicide only if he intentionally causes such suicide by force, duress or deception. .

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. Michael Hobbins was shot after being mistaken for a wild turkey by a fellow hunter in Union County, Pennsylvania in 2010. In yet another arrest that seemed to capture this bizarre holiday, Raymond Deskins, 61, of Sterling, Va.

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Biden’s Classified-Records Headache is Garland’s Special-Counsel Nightmare

JonathanTurley

2 of the discovery as it was closing out a Washington office, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, that Biden used as part of his relationship with the University of Pennsylvania after he left the vice presidency in 2017. The White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives on Nov.

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Biden’s Closet: It is Not the Crime But the Clarity That Concerns the Press and Pundits

JonathanTurley

” Washington is in full spin control with pundits who previously said that even a misdemeanor conviction of Trump should bar him from ever running again for federal office. Instead, the Bidens found another source at the University of Pennsylvania to cover their office needs.