The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It would: Reduce the costs of prosecution and incarceration; Promptly connect offenders to drug abuse treatment and community-based services to reduce recidivism; Prevent disruptions in employment and education; Eliminate trauma experienced by individuals and their families due to arrest; and.

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The Crime Report

MAY 27, 2021

Supervision lengths for felonies fell from an average of 48 months to 36 months, and from 12 months to 9 months for misdemeanors. Last month, his office released a report documenting the impact of these two changes: The number of people on supervision fell from 48,000 to fewer than 28,000. Racial disparities significantly narrowed.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. On the criminal side, I handle low level misdemeanors up to felonies. It’s not about where you go to school, but what you do with your education. Caila A Coleman. The legal field is known to be extremely competitive. You are a successful attorney.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

Additionally, 17 states passed 26 new laws that open opportunities to previously incarcerated individuals, allowing them to pursue employment and occupational licensing, while dozens of other laws now open housing, education, driver’s license, and other public benefits. not disenfranchising at all).

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In most states, violating the CAP law is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is a slap on the wrist. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? The definition of a “child” ranges among states from age 14 and 18. That’s much more than a slap on the wrist. That may be what it takes.”. Cassie Chew.

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The Crime Report

MAY 12, 2022

The report, released in early March by the nonprofit Collateral Consequences Resource Center , studied laws aimed at restoring rights after incarceration, such as voting rights, felony and misdemeanor relief, non-conviction relief, and abilities to obtain employment and occupational licensing. It ranked Illinois as No.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

police chief) and his academic colleagues found that a majority of police officers surveyed “perceived control” over their decision to arrest for misdemeanors (69 percent) or confiscate drug paraphernalia like syringes (56 percent). A recent study published by Brandon del Pozo (the former Burlington, Vt.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The statement could effectively knock out the misdemeanor gun possession count — the one count that could still be in play for the jury after the prosecution’s case on the more serious offense appeared to collapse in court. I have a legal education.” ” Under Section 948.60(2)(a) or is not in compliance with ss.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

I can understand interference with an educational institution but she is also charged with burglary, WFOR reported. ” Thus, the basis could be that she intended to interfere with an educational institution and the school was not open to the public. The charges are odd. The state criminal code at Section 810.02

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The charges in all but one of the 40 cases were elevated from misdemeanors to felonies based on legal technicalities allowed under Illinois law — that the altercations happened at a “public place” or that the victim was a medical professional — rather than the seriousness of the acts. I’d be more educated.”. At first, I didn’t know.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Margaret Ogden serves as the Wellness Coordinator in the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, where she’s tasked with improving the mental health and wellbeing of Virginians in the legal profession through education, regulation and outreach. Let’s destigmatize help seeking behavior. Seek it proactively.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. We will continue in that important work while remaining focused on our core educational mission.”.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 1, 2022

The program will offer a variety of services, including individual and group counseling for alcohol and substance abuse, mental health treatment, job training, career opportunities, educational and financial planning, resume services and criminal record clearing.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Pine County’s Probation Department collaborates with experts in the program to work with juveniles that have been charged with misdemeanors and felonies that are not homicides or sex crimes. . Community-based organizations can also help facilitate new programs, as well as social workers and educators, the IIP details.

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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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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Stop the Violence in the Sex Trades Act, introduced by Senator Julia Salazar, would decriminalize consensual sex between adults in exchange for a fee, which is currently a class B misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2023

Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio charged Durant with a “federal misdemeanor charge under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.” Before trashing the table, she told the students, “You’re not educating s–t […] This is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls–t.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The First District, Division One, published opinion concluded the defendant could not be relieved from a mandatory lifetime sex offender registration requirement despite his felony conviction for attempting to distribute harmful material to a minor having been reduced to a misdemeanor. Justice Groban wrote, “I. Lockton Companies v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Religious families have said such a rule would require them to leave the public school system as a threshold exclusionary condition for public education. Recently, a California court ruled that misgendering patients is protected despite a landmark LGBTQ+ rights bill.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For some individuals in Massachusetts, getting old juvenile records expunged has been a lifelong process, in many cases preventing them getting an education, housing, or job opportunities. . For felony charges, the Salem News details that petitioners have to wait at least seven years, misdemeanors mean waiting three years.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while we must revisit decades-long sentences, addressing misdemeanors, which make up more than 80 percent of all criminal cases, is also critical. Many reform-minded prosecutors are following her lead in ending the prosecution of certain misdemeanors and reallocating resources to address more serious crimes.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Police from Arizona State University, where Sinema teaches, are recommending that four people involved in the incident receive misdemeanor charges related to disruption of an educational institution and disorderly conduct. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.)

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Rittenhouse is facing six charges that range from first-degree homicide to a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. At this stage, the prosecution may celebrate even a misdemeanor conviction. It is either the product of systemic errors or systemic racism. Prosecution’s bumpy start, and finish.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She was less specific on the details: “It could be a felony , it could be a misdemeanor, but we know that CPS charge could harm your employment, could harm their education, because nowadays many people do a CPS database search before offering employment.”

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Our local District Attorney’s office is now filing fewer misdemeanor charges against youth and we are pleased to see the system pivot towards alternative approaches in certain cases.”. She now says she needs another year to complete it.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

Senate Bill S211 would seal conviction records automatically after three years of a completed sentence for misdemeanors and seven years for felonies. Advocates gathered in Albany on Tuesday as New York lawmakers are set to introduce the latest version of the Clean Slate Act. People convicted of sex crimes are excluded from the bill.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It was a great way for a young person to get an education. One of the things I’m very proud of is the work that we did [at John Jay College] through the Misdemeanor Justice Project. BERMAN: I first met you in the early 1990s, when you were at the NYPD. Sometimes that’s the right thing to do, but often not.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

He replied “An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.” After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. However, it really did not matter, because the misdemeanor has been as dead as Dillinger for years.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

Nebraska, Department of Education v. The US Constitution says that Justices may serve as long as they exhibit “good behavior” and can face impeachment for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Texas ), Affirmative Action ( Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC, Students for Fair Admissions v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies. The unsealed indictment of The People of the State of New York against Donald J.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The business coalition is made up of ski resort companies, a hunting and fishing apparel and education business, a biking outfitter, a ranch, and a farm. The court also consolidated the two lawsuits challenging the leasing suspension, one brought by the State of Wyoming and the other brought by the Western Energy Alliance.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2025

On MSNBC, former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund head Sherrilyn Ifill declared that the pardons were all part of a plan to build an army of brownshirts. 31, 2023, to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. Others cited the pardons as evidence of an even greater plot or purpose.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

Oyer, the pardon attorney for the DOJ, was fired March 7, 2025, and asserts her termination resulted from refusal to recommend restoration of firearm rights to Mel Gibson, who lost these rights in a 2011 misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. Oyer declined.

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