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North Carolina man sentenced for threatening House Speaker Pelosi after US Capitol riot

JURIST

The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. On January 7, he sent a text message to a relative in Georgia that included a threat directed towards Speaker Pelosi.

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What’s an “occasion”? Scope of Armed Career Criminal Act depends on the answer.

SCOTUSBlog

Wooden pleaded guilty to 10 counts of burglary in Georgia state court and served an eight-year sentence. The stranger just happened to be a plain-clothes officer who knew of Wooden’s felony convictions. To qualify as an armed career criminal, a defendant must have three prior “violent felony” or “serious drug offense” convictions.

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Beards and Brady (i.e., religious freedom and criminal procedure)

SCOTUSBlog

Muslim prisoner argues that Georgia corrections’ limit on beard lengths violates his religious exercise. Muslim prisoner argues that Georgia corrections’ limit on beard lengths violates his religious exercise. After Holt , Georgia corrections allowed all inmates to grow half-inch beards. In Smith v.

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Perhaps defining an “occasion” is not so difficult after all

SCOTUSBlog

Share William Dale Wooden burglarized 10 units in a single storage facility, and pleaded guilty to 10 counts of burglary in Georgia state court. Gorsuch argued that historically, the rule of lenity has played an important constitutional role in protecting defendants from vague criminal statutes. The difference was not just semantic.

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Truth, Lies and Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

In a forthcoming paper in the Georgia State University Law Review, Thea Johnson argues that lying is at the heart of a plea bargaining process that “allows defendants the opportunity to negotiate fair resolutions to their cases in the face of a deeply unfair system.”.

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The Continuing Battle Over LinkedIn Profiles and the Applicability of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

The IP Law Blog

The Van Buren case involved a former Georgia police officer who, in exchange for money, would use the computer in his patrol car to access the law enforcement database to retrieve information about requested license plate numbers. The officer became the subject of an FBI investigation and was charged with a felony violation of the CFAA.

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SCOTUS Adopts Narrow Interpretation of Computer Fraud Act

Constitutional Law Reporter

Former Georgia police sergeant Nathan Van Buren used his patrol-car computer to access a law enforcement database to retrieve information about a particular license plate number in exchange for money. Facts of the Case. Unbeknownst to Van Buren, his actions were part of a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation.

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