The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

In Texas, there’s a continuing dispute over whether the standards for death penalty defense apply if prosecutors seek life without parole instead. Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. Other states have minimal standards.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

However, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals remanded the case for additional findings and released an opinion in 2017, after the statute of limitations had already expired.

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In our recent virtual workshop, Texas attorney and MyCase customer, Benson Varghese , demonstrated the new, game-changing features that will help law firms reach a new tier of efficiency in 2021. Client satisfaction is paramount to Benson and the firm, which has more 5-star Google reviews than any other defense practice in Texas.

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MyCase

MARCH 1, 2021

Benson Varghese is the founder and managing partner of Varghese Summersett , one of the largest and fastest-growing criminal defense firms in Fort Worth, Texas. Client satisfaction is paramount to Benson and the firm, which has more 5-star Google reviews than any other defense practice in Texas. Presentation Slides.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2021

There is another tragic case out of Texas involving rivaling claims of self-defense and provocation. The common law protects not just self-defense but mistaken self-defense where a person may have erroneously (but reasonably) thought that he was under attack. The Texas SYG law states in part : Sec.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2021

Warren borrowed the car from a Wolfforth, Texas dealer in the summer of 2019 before allegedly he driving the vehicle over to the bank and handing over a fast-food bad and a note reading “This is a f—— robbery. He clearly took the slogan “Sheer Driving Pleasure” a tad too far. Play with me and die. AGGRAVATED ROBBERY.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 29, 2021

We often discuss novel criminal charges or cases. The latest such case involves the arrest of two teenage girls in Texas after they removed a gold necklace off the chest of a dead man found in a drainage ditch. The charge is “theft from a human corpse.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

According to a June report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Georgia, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas also require some incarcerated persons to work for no pay. .” Because 61 percent of voters said they did not support the amendment, the slavery loophole will remain in Louisiana.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

1): Whether the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling that a state rule of criminal procedure barred an Arizona death-row inmate from obtaining relief is an adequate and independent state-law ground for the judgment against him. Brackeen , Texas v. Hendrix (Nov. Arizona (Nov. Talevski (Nov. Haaland , & Brackeen v. Haaland ) (Nov.

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Patently O

AUGUST 11, 2022

Note that top ranked law schools rarely advertise for particular subject matter areas. The new hire then starts work the following summer.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 8, 2025

Rather, as some of us previously argued, the Court ruled that this is a habeas case that should be heard in Texas. However, for some of us, this seemed like an odd habeas action where jurisdiction should reside in Texas. The Court ruled, “The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We have previously discussed “ Castle Doctrine ” and “ Stand Your Ground ” laws. The latest such case comes from Martindale, Texas where Terry Duane Turner, 65, is charged with the first-degree murder of Adil Dghoughi, 31. The Castle Doctrine has been extended to include the curtilage surrounding a home.

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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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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In that sense, a Texas case has all of the classic elements of a Dram Shop case: Dylan Molina drank eight high-alcohol drinks in roughly three hours before leaving and getting into a wreck that killed a police detective and seriously injured his family.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 23, 2023

The challenge to the domestic-violence ban comes from Zackey Rahimi of Arlington, Texas. A Texas state court entered a restraining order against Rahimi and revoked his handgun license. In both United States v. Rahimi and Garland v. Cargill , the government the justices to weigh in.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

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. Today, one out of every three adults in this country has a criminal or arrest history of some kind.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 22, 2022

In three of the past four terms, the Supreme Court has rejected broad readings of white-collar criminal laws urged by the federal government. Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2021

There was a remarkable decision by a Texas federal judge this week when U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez for the Western District of Texas ruled that the Air Force was legally at fault for the 2017 mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas by Devin Patrick Kelley.

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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. However, a divided panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that NetChoice was unlikely to succeed in any of its challenges to the Texas law, H.B. NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton and Moody v. McIntosh v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sylvia Gonzalez, a newly elected Texas city council member elected on an anti-corruption platform was arrested after her first meeting for “intentionally … conceal[ing] … a government record,” for allegedly taking a petition her supporters had presented to the mayor seeking the removal of a city manager. Gonzalez v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2022

” Holland has a long criminal record across the states of Nevada, California and Texas, according to Newsweek. Westbrook insisted that it would be illogical for his client to lead the police to the truck with the evidence. He was simply “a hapless car thief who just picked the wrong car.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2021

He was tracked down in Texas and arrested due to outstanding warrants for felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault, and felony drug possession. The two men apparently were in the store previously and Hall may have tried to pass the fake money — raising the concern of self-incrimination.

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It has been reported that the first instance of videoconferencing was in early April 2020, when the Texas Supreme Court had made the decision to implement it, having the lawyers and some of the justices appear remotely for an oral argument session.”. local government, property, family or criminal law.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. The post Texas city council member argues retaliatory arrest appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

These laws are based on an urban legend that people are routinely prosecuted for defending their homes from intruders. The laws have produced perverse results as in the infamous case of Tom Horn in Texas. Montana’s law had been invoked in workplace shootings.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These laws are based on an urban legend that people are routinely prosecuted for defending their homes from intruders. The laws have produced perverse results as in the controversial case of Tom Horn in Texas. Florida is a Castle Doctrine state as well as a Stand Your Ground state.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 28, 2023

Castle doctrine states codified and, in some states, expanded on those common law protections. They have resulted in some highly controversial cases like that of Tom Horn in Texas. I have included the South Carolina Castle Doctrine provision. ” It does not limit the use of lethal force only for intentionally unlawful entries.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The complaint below details how Reed stole a handgun from a pawn shop in Texas and livestreamed himself committing a “drive-by” shooting in which he fired the stolen handgun blindly into buildings as he drove past. .” (Officer Mercer is also African American).The

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2024

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has blocked border enforcement by the state under Texas’s SB 4. Many of us had predicted this result given the prior precedent of the Supreme Court on the federal preemption of state immigration laws. ‘Removal is a civil, not criminal, matter.’

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Indeed, hundreds of criminal laws have exactly the same causation requirement…Are they all now up for grabs?”. Abortion rights groups said that the Six Circuit’s ruling provides some relief, especially after the US Supreme Court allowed a virtual ban on abortions in Texas to take effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2022

Cochran went instead to a federal district court in Texas, seeking to block the administrative proceedings before the new ALJ. Both cases will likely be scheduled for argument in the fall.

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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. I have previously written about the dubious claims of kidnapping and human trafficking made by figures like Hillary Clinton.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Oklahoma that Congress had not clearly disestablished a Creek Nation reservation covering much of eastern Oklahoma, and thus the area remained Native American territory for the purposes of a federal criminal law, eliminating the state’s ability to prosecute crimes there. Brackeen , 21-377 , Texas v. Texas , 21-5050.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2021

These laws are based on an urban legend that people are routinely prosecuted for defending their homes from intruders. The laws have produced perverse results as in the controversial case of Tom Horn in Texas. In this case, there could be a conventional self-defense claim.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2024

Hunter Biden has been arguing against the position of his father’s administration and adopting the same argument of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in challenging the constitutionality of the law. (AP ” Under the protective order, Rahimi’s gun license was suspended for two years and he was barred from contacting C.M.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Now, federal Judge Michael Truncale (left) has issued a preliminary injunction in the Eastern District of Texas to stop the prosecution of the company. I previously wrote a column opposing calls by GOP members for a federal investigation of Netflix and the movie “Cuties” (or Mignonnes).

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