ABA Journal

MARCH 14, 2022

Florida law provides that anyone suspected of a forcible felony, such as aggravated assault, can be prosecuted—no matter what their age is. But the law…

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

The individuals include Florida man Mitchell Todd Gardner II, Troy Sargent of Massachusetts, and Nathaniel DeGrave of Nevada. . Court documents indicate Gardner joined other individuals in confronting “law enforcement officers on the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol.”

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The Crime Report

JULY 29, 2022

A new database in Florida shows some officers who have been disciplined, and those who can’t be on the force anymore, NBC 6 reports. The database on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s website includes the records of officers who been disciplined by the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission (CJSTC) since Jan.

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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. Plenty of U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

A “second chance law” in Indiana expunges criminal records after five to eight years. The Indiana law allows individuals to get those old criminal records expunged after they’ve remained out of trouble for five or eight years, depending on the offense, reports WRTV Indianapolis.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In “ A Statewide Analysis of the Impact of Restitution and Fees on Juvenile Recidivism in Florida Across Race & Ethnicity, ” researchers found that fees and restitution assessed against young people actually increased juvenile recidivism in Florida. for Hispanic youth and $426.50 for white youth.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A man in Tampa Bay, Florida allegedly ambushed two local police officers responding to a call made by his mother who claimed that he was acting violently at their home and that she feared for her safety, Jon Haworth reports for ABC News. Two other deputies who were on site then Tasered Bouzy after he exited his car and took him into custody.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. Florida and Moore v. Returning Relists 74 Pinehurst LLC v.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Talking to people who are not attorneys will help ensure that your strategy is translating well, and they can help you think of options outside of the law that you may have overlooked. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law? Caila A Coleman. – Chere Estrin.

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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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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even worse, those laws exacerbate labor shortages by taking willing workers out of the job market who could fill essential jobs in critical fields. During the 2021 legislative session, 10 legislatures made significant progress in adopting laws that expand licensing opportunities for people with criminal histories.

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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

MARCH 3, 2022

There have been more than 250 new laws passed in that 18-month period alone — amazing state efforts to roll back the malign effects of the 30-year crime war,” the CCRC details. On a more broad spectrum, a pardon may be necessary to enable anyone to run for elected office, or simply secure a professional or business license.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

in 2018, but Florida law requires that a jury determine a sentence of either death or life in prison for capital felonies, the Associated Press reports. Nikolas Cruz, now 23, has already pled guilty to killing 17 people at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fl.,

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. And, once again, the views expressed by the dissenting justices, led by Justices Clarence Thomas and Justice Scalia, could be read as political ideology more so than the rule of law.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 14, 2021

What was striking however was the charge with practicing medicine without a license (which was later elevated to a second-degree felony because of the patient’s disfigurement). Thus, if you hold yourself out as a doctor, you are subject to the standard of a reasonable doctor. She was charged with “resisting arrest without violence.”

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Over the next four years, the troubled child (as he was under Texas law ) repeatedly self-injured himself, including more than 50 times trying to take his own life. The last 15 years of decision-making has convinced a majority of the American public that political ideology more often than not has subverted the Rule of Law in the high court.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

In Virginia, the minimum age to charge someone with a felony is 14 years old. This remains unclear, and due to juvenile privacy laws, we may never know. student in Criminal Justice and Creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database at the University of Central Florida. Do schools need to start searching first graders?

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019. When bail reform was passed in April, 2019, there were 7,800 people on Rikers Island.

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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

MARCH 27, 2021

The most serious charge is the third-degree felony which can lead to up to five years in prison. All persons guilty of a riot, or of inciting or encouraging a riot, shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. . — Whoever shall resist, obstruct, or oppose any officer as defined in s. 775.082 or s.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Tyrance McCall, a Florida resident, filed suit in Georgia against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Ohio, after a 2016 accident in Florida resulted from the alleged failure of a tire that Cooper manufactured in Arkansas. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upholding a similar Iowa law.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

(The Georgia House responded by passing a bill providing that anyone seeking to enforce Chisholm would be “guilty of a felony and shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy, by being hanged.”). In both Alden and the 1996 case, Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Chisholm was, not surprisingly, unpopular with the states.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Arizona he asks the Supreme Court to overrule a 1970 precedent holding that states can use juries as small as six jurors to try defendants for felonies. Currently, six states provide for criminal juries of six or eight jurors: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Utah. 28 conference). Khorrami v. 28 conference).

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

One of those four involves an issue on which the court already is considering 11 other relisted cases: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments require the use of a 12-person jury to try defendants accused of felonies, rather than the six-person jury Florida affords for many such offenses. Florida and Moore v. Last up is Bufkin v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Roman is facing felony charges of reckless discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon as well as child endangerment and violating probation. This incident occurred around 3 a.m., when two Chicago police officers confronted the 13-year-old and Roman while investigating gunshots in Little Village. .”

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JURIST

MAY 14, 2024

Carney sentenced 21-year-old Xavier Batten of Florida to 42 months in prison for conspiring to firebomb a Planned Parenthood clinic, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a statement Monday. The post Federal judge sentences Florida man for conspiring to firebomb Planned Parenthood clinic appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

MARCH 14, 2023

The Florida Senate Committee on Health Policy voted 8 –3 Monday to advance a bill that would largely criminalize and further restrict the provision of sex-reassignment hormones and procedures to minors. A supportive parent could lose custody of their child and face felony prosecution for seeking life-saving care.”

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2022

Florida healthcare providers Wednesday filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block Florida’s new abortion law, which bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, set to take effect July 1. The post Florida healthcare providers file lawsuit to block abortion ban appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2023

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum Monday signed one of the country’s most restrictive abortion bans into law. Under this bill, performing an abortion in the state is a Class C felony, which can result in a maximum five-year prison sentence if convicted.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Instead, Defendants have issued and implemented unlawful agency memoranda that allow criminal aliens already convicted of felony offenses to roam free in the United States. carte blanche to avoid accountability for abandoning enforcement of immigration laws.” Such aliens belong in federal custody, as Congress required.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

Watts had initially been charged with felony abuse of a corpse in October after Warren County police found the remains of her pregnancy in her toilet and trash. Wade decision that recognized an individual’s right to an abortion, states across the country have been initiating new laws to regulate access to reproductive health care.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2021

The Neal Davis Law Firm , a criminal defense law firm based in Houston, Tx., recently produced an in-depth report on human trafficking and its trends, as well as an examination of the laws pertaining to trafficking state-by-state. Florida was next with 896, then New York with 454. The report, U.S.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

Skrmetti , centers on a Tennessee law enacted in March 2023 that bans healthcare providers from performing medical procedures on minors or administering treatments intended to help minors identify with a gender different from their sex as assigned at birth. The law also curtailed then-ongoing gender-affirming care for minor patients.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

Florida Gov. There is no evidence that election crimes are a serious problem in Florida or in any state in the country. Critics called the announcement a publicity stunt that says less about the prevalence of voter fraud than it does about flaws in the state’s election security apparatus.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2024

At present, half the states in the nation have passed laws barring transgender youth from obtaining gender-affirming care — with state policies diverging on the expansiveness of the definition of such treatments.

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