Education Felony Statute 
JURIST
DECEMBER 1, 2024
The updated legislation allows 16- and 17-year-olds charged with Class A through E felonies to now be tried as adults. Cases involving Class F through I felony offenses and non-motor vehicle misdemeanors for 16- and 17-year-olds will remain in juvenile delinquency court. The new law also includes provisions for flexibility.
Legal Writing Launch
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Lawyers need to draft meticulously documents such as contracts, wills, and statutes to ensure that these documents are enforceable and comprehensible. This precision is particularly crucial in statutes, regulations, and contracts, where exact wording is necessary to outline legal rights and obligations unequivocally.
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JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
He told the prosecutors “I have been wrestling with this statute with, I’d hate to count the hours I’ve put into it, I’m still trying to figure out what it says, what’s prohibited. I have a legal education.” It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute. Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly.
The Crime Report
MAY 26, 2021
In order for that to happen, states should adopt a “clearly defined purpose and direction” in their statutes to guide the process of reform, she added. Black adolescents are also over eight times more likely to be arrested for a felony than their white peers, the paper said.
At the Lectern
APRIL 25, 2024
The First District, Division Five, Court of Appeal’s partially published opinion in the case rejected a challenge to a citizen’s tax initiative to fund early childhood education and pediatric health care. The statute provides a 25-years-to-life sentence for various sexual offenses during the commission of certain burglaries.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 19, 2024
The vast majority of the 215 felony indictments under the law, she explained, involved either the use or the creation of fake government identifications. In her complaint, Gonzalez noted that she was the only person charged in the past 10 years under the state’s government records law for temporarily misplacing a document.
The Crime Report
JUNE 30, 2021
Janet Mills has just one day to approve the bill, which decriminalizes offenses committed by people sold into the sex trade and instead provides them with social services and career and education opportunities. Proponents of this “equality” approach also want pimps and traffickers to face stricter punishments.
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